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On Friday's Performance Today, we have music old and new from venues near and far, including a new composition for Passover by cantor and composer, Gerald Cohen. Plus, we'll hear a Brahms Symphony that was 20 years in the making.
In many churches around the world, tonight marks one of the days of Tenebrae; the service of shadows. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear a piece inspired by these religious services.
On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll go to Symphony Hall in Boston to hear James Levine conduct the Boston Symphony in Mozart's Symphony No. 23. And speaking of child prodigies, we'll also meet our newest PT Young Artist in Residence; Coco Wieprecht joins us in the studio as our first ever Young Artist born in the 21st century.
This week on PT, tubist Coco Wieprecht joins Fred in the studio as our first-ever Young Artist in Residence born in the 21st Century. Wieprecht will discuss her budding musical career, and we'll hear her play a solo piece by Philadelphia-born composer, Vincent Persichetti.
On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear two very different pieces by Franz Schubert. First, his inventive and intimate Arpeggione Sonata, in concert in Seattle. Then, conductor Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Schubert's Symphony No. 6.
On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear concert highlights large and small; from the Los Angeles Philharmonic playing massive music by Anton Bruckner, to Andreas Borregaard playing keyboard music by Jean Philippe Rameau -- on his accordion.
As they stood with her five-hundred-pound, 8-foot-long marimba, Fred Child asked PT Young Artist Jisu Jung if she ever wished that she played the flute. On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear her answer, plus more of her in studio conversation with Fred.
As they stood with her five-hundred-pound, 8-foot-long marimba, Fred Child asked PT Young Artist Jisu Jung if she ever wished that she played the flute. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear her answer, plus more of her in studio conversation with Fred.
In 2012, marimba soloist Jisu Jung didn't speak a word of English. And at that time, she already had a rich musical life in Korea. So why did she decide to move to Baltimore to study at the Peabody Institute? As Jung puts it, she "just wanted to see the bigger world." On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear lots more from our new PT Young Artist, Jisu Jung.
