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By it's very definition, a scherzo is a musical joke: spritely and playful. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear a scherzo by Felix Mendelssohn that fits that definition exactly -- right down to a smirk. From a concert at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, we'll hear the scherzo from Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 2.
Each week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a classical composer. We then get one of our listeners on the phone to try to guess the tune and the composer whose style Bruce is imitating. Play along with our Piano Puzzler, on Wednesday's Performance Today.
Tuesday's Performance Today features an all-star performance by players from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; we'll hear some of the finest chamber musicians in the country play Ernst von Dohnanyi's Piano Quintet No. 1 from a concert they gave on tour in Athens, Georgia.
On Monday's Performance Today, we'll drop in on a concert at Symphony Space in New York City to hear the Imani Winds playing an Afro-Cuban Concerto by their flutist, Valerie Coleman. And we'll hear a performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 from a recent concert in Copenhagen.
On this weekend'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.
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.
