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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.

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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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Johann Sebastian Bach's Violin Partita No. 2 has special meaning for violinist Robyn Bollinger. On Friday's Performance Today she'll perform it live in our studio, plus she'll speak with Fred about her connection to this particular partita.


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Bollinger and Bach

On Thursday's Performance Today, we have part two of our chat with our Young Artist in Residence, violinist Robyn Bollinger. Bollinger will play Tchaikovsky's Melodie for Violin and Piano, a piece that she calls a "heartbreaker."


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Tchaikovsky's heartbreaker

Our newest Young Artist in Residence has been going to rehearsals since before she was born. On Wednesday's Performance Today, violinist Robyn Bollinger joins Fred in the studio to talk about her musical history and to perform Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 22.


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Violinist Robyn Bollinger

On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll celebrate great American composer Duke Ellington's birthday with a concert performance of his Suite from "The River."


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Duke Ellington's birthday

The Butterfly Lovers is often considered the Chinese equivalent of Romeo and Juliet. It's the story of two star-crossed lovers who, after their tragic deaths, are reincarnated and reunited as butterflies. On Monday's Performance Today we'll hear a musical interpretation of this tale, The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto, performed by Gil Shaham and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.


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The butterfly lovers

Claude Debussy's La Mer is a colorful, inventive picture of the sea; a portrait painted with music. On this weekend's Performance Today we'll hear La Mer performed in concert in the seaside town of Stockholm, Sweden.


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La Mer

For fans of classical music it doesn't get much better. On Friday's Performance Today we'll hear the Berlin Philharmonic in concert at their home venue, the Philharmonie, playing Beethoven's Symphony No. 6.


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A musical trip to Berlin

On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear music that Sergei Prokofiev wrote for the satirical film "Lieutenant Kije," which depicts the noble life and tragic death of a soldier who was never born in the first place.


Lieutenant Kije

On Wednesday's Performance Today, we're celebrating the Bard's 450th birthday with Shakespeare-inspired works by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, and Chopin.
