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American Public Media’s Performance Today® is America’s most popular classical music radio program and a winner of the 2014 Gabriel Award for artistic achievement. The show is broadcast on hundreds of public radio stations across the country, including at 1 p.m. central weekdays on Minnesota Public Radio. More information about our stations can be found at 

Performance Today® features live concert recordings that can’t be heard anywhere else, highlights from new album releases, and in-studio performances and interviews. Performance Today® is based at the APM studios in St. Paul, Minnesota, but is frequently on the road, with special programs broadcast from festivals and public radio stations around the country. Also, each Wednesday, composer Bruce Adolphe joins host Fred Child for a classical musical game and listener favorite: the Piano Puzzler.

Shows

Since 2000, Fred Child has been the host of Performance Today, the most-listened-to classical music radio show in America. He also is the commentator and announcer for Live From Lincoln Center, the only live performing arts series on television. He also hosts musical events on stages around the country, working with major orchestras and festivals, and connecting with audiences coast to coast.


Host

Fred Child

Kathryn Slusher is the senior producer of Performance Today, where she leads programming and production for the show. In her spare time, she enjoys the vibrant Twin Cities music and theater scene, and loves to read, hike and spend time with her family.


Senior Producer

Kathryn Slusher

As a Producer for Performance Today, Meghann chooses music to broadcast on the show, writes web articles and scripts, facilitates, conducts and edits interviews, creates video content and manages PT’s social media pages. She created Performance Today’s Black History Spotlight Series and the My Name is Series to highlight Black classical musicians. Meghann is also the producer for the PT Young Artist in Residence Series. In her free time, she is a mom, a part-time actress and fashion lover.

Meghann also created and hosted “Wondrous Strange”, a national radio program about uncommon musical instruments, she is the official underwriting voice for ‘The New York Times’ The Daily, and she can occasionally be heard guest-hosting Performance Today.


Producer

Meghann Oglesby

As an Associate Producer for Performance Today, Kathleen Bradbury writes scripts and assists with external communications. In her spare time, she likes to read fiction, lift heavy weights at the gym, and frolic about in nature. But above all else, Kathleen loves to sing Broadway showtunes--much to the delight of her wife, her infant son, and her rescue dog.


Kathleen Bradbury

Jon Gohman is an associate producer for Performance Today. He is responsible for various behind-the-scenes functions, including liaising with artists and creating materials for national distribution. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, playing the guitar, and thinking about Langrange points.


Associate Producer

Jon Gohman

Craig Thorson is the Technical Director for Performance Today. In addition to mastering the live music recordings that are programmed for each daily program, he records guest performances and interviews. Craig enjoys skiing, tennis, and bicycling, and boating.


Technical Director

Craig Thorson

Jeanne Barron is the technical producer of Performance Today.


Technical Producer

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Jeanne Barron

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Performance Today

Jacob Bancks' 'Rock Island Line'

Every Friday on PT, we feature 21st century music. This week, composer Jacob Bancks joins us to help dissect his 2014 piece, "Rock Island Line."


Jacob Bancks' "Rock Island Line"

Performance Today Features

Courtesy of the artist

On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear Jeffrey Kahane and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra play George Gershwin's original version of Rhapsody in Blue, complete with what Kahane calls "a kind of crackle and energy the big, lush Hollywood orchestrations simply can't duplicate."


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Wikipedia

George Gershwin's original rhapsody

On Wednesday's Performance Today, come play along on with our Piano Puzzler. Plus, we'll hear lesser known musical gems by Georg Muffat and Ernst von Dohnanyi.


Britannica.com

Piano Puzzler and more

Conductor Donald Runnicles is the Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Teton Village, Wyoming. Plus, Runnicles knows his way around a piano keyboard. On Tuesday's Performance Today, Donald Runnicles and his wife, Adele Eslinger Runnicles, join us to play music by Maurice Ravel.


Image courtesy of Rudolf Costin

Donald Runnicles

Performers at the Grand Teton Music Festival find plenty to do both onstage and off, including hiking, biking, swimming, and watching the local wildlife. Monday's Performance Today features the three Bs of the Grand Teton Music Festival: Brahms, bears and birds.


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Brahms, bears, and birds

On this weekend's Performance Today, play along with our Piano Puzzler; see if you can name the hidden tune and the composer whose style Bruce Adolphe is imitating. Plus, highlights from the 2014 Grand Teton Music Festival in Teton Village, Wyoming.


Highlights from the Grand Teton Music Festival

Israeli-American composer Ofer Ben-Amots combines Jewish folk music  with contemporary textures. And last week, he joined Fred onstage at the  Grand Teton Music Festival. On Friday's Performance Today we'll hear highlights from that conversation, plus a stirring performance of his Odessa Trio.


Ofer Ben-Amots

Last week, Fred Child met oboist Elizabeth Koch Tiscione at the Grand Teton Music Festival. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll have music and conversation with Koch Tiscione, including a fantastic performance of Mozart's Oboe Quartet and discussion about the challenges of playing music in Wyoming's dry mountain air.


Oboist Elizabeth Koch Tiscione

Oboist Elizabeth Koch Tiscione, cellist Charae Krueger, violinist Jay Christy and violist Yang-Yoon Kim join Fred onstage for music and conversation.

GTMF: Mozart's Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370

Violinist Karen Kinzie, cellist Amy Leung, and pianist Scott Holshouser join Fred onstage for music and conversation.

GTMF: Ben-Amots' The Odessa Trio

Violinist Sarah Schwartz, violinist Eva Cappelletti Chao, violist Ben Ullery, and cellist Amy Leung join Fred onstage for music and conversation.

GTMF: Brahms' String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67

Pianist Donald Runnicles and pianist Adelle Eslinger Runnicles join Fred onstage for music and conversation.

GTMF: Ravel's La valse

Recently, PT was on location at the Grand Teton Music Festival. Come listen to music and conversation from PT's live onstage event, plus see photos and video from Fred's outdoor adventures on Grand Teton.
