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Fred Child takes a detour at the Grand Teton Music Festival on Performance Today.

Every week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe rewrites a familiar tune in the style of a classical composer. We get one of our listeners on the phone to try to guess the tune and the composer whose style Bruce is imitating. Play along on Wednesday's Performance Today, and see if you can guess the hidden tune and the composer.

Edward Elgar's "Enigma Variations" is a sort of musical version of Instagram. But instead of taking pictures, Elgar composed musical portraits of his friends and acquaintances. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear Elgar's collection of personalized musical vignettes from a concert in Toronto.

Daniel Barenboim is both a pianist and a conductor; one of the most versatile, agile, and expressive musical minds of our time. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll explore the many sides of Daniel Barenboim.

In classical music, and probably in the world, there's no one else like her. Truly a woman of the world, Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida was educated in Austria and is now a British citizen. On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear her interpretation of quintessentially Austrian music by Mozart.

On Friday's Performance Today, pianist Simone Dinnerstein discusses the perfection and poetry of Bach. Plus, we'll hear her perform Bach's French Suite No. 5 in concert in Berlin.

In classical music, and probably in the world, there's no one else like her. Truly a woman of the world, Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida was educated in Austria and is now a British citizen. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear her interpretation of quintessentially Austrian music by Mozart.

On Wednesday's Performance Today, Bruce joins us for our weekly Piano Puzzler. Play along and see if you can name the hidden tune and the composer whose style Bruce is imitating.

Once upon a time, there was a clever little boy named Tom Thumb. His parents sent him to live in the woods; a fairly horrible state of affairs. And once upon a time, there was a composer who loved children's stories, but wanted them to sound less brutal. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear the result: Maurice Ravel's softening of the Mother Goose Tales.