Pack your bags, grab your life jackets, and join us for a musical cruise down the Beautiful Blue Danube on Tuesday's Performance Today. We'll head to Austria to hear the Vienna Philharmonic play this classic waltz by Johann Strauss Jr., plus we'll have news about how you can join PT for a trip along the Danube next summer.
On Monday's Performance Today we'll hear the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra give a stirring performance of Dvorak's New World Symphony, from a concert in the land of purple mountain majesties.
This Sunday marks the 200th anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner. On this weekend's Performance Today, journalist and author Steve Vogel will join us to discuss the miraculous history behind our national anthem.
This Sunday marks the 200th anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner. On Friday's Performance Today, journalist and author Steve Vogel will join us to discuss the miraculous history behind our national anthem.
A month after he became a U.S. citizen, composer Igor Stravinsky wrote his Symphony in Three Movements. The New York Philharmonic premiered the piece in 1946; on Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear a much more recent performance by that same ensemble.
On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll go to a concert in Hamburg to hear Don Quixote, one of Richard Strauss' great tone poems. Plus, composer Bruce Adolphe joins us for this week's Piano Puzzler.
Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote his Symphonic Dances in 1940; it was the last major work he finished before he died. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra give a dramatic performance of Rachmaninoff's last large work.
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel might be only 33 years old, but he has worked with great orchestras and soloists around the world. And he says violinist Janine Jansen's interpretation of the Violin Concerto by Mendelssohn is among the best he's ever heard. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll Jansen perform that piece in concert in Los Angeles.
On this weekend's Performance Today, we have musical highlights from around the world, including a performance of Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending by Hilary Hahn and the London Symphony Orchestra. Plus, Bruce Adolphe has this week's Piano Puzzler.
