Performance Today®

On Friday's Performance Today, we'll go to a concert down under for the world-premiere of a new piece by American composer John Adams.

The great Dutch violinist Janine Jansen is currently under the weather; she had to cancel her appearances this week with the New York Philharmonic. On Thursday's Performance Today, however, we'll hear her perform Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto from a recent concert in Frankfurt, Germany.

On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll travel to Sage Gateshead in England to hear Imogen Cooper perform a piano concerto by Mozart. Plus, Bruce Adolphe joins Fred in the studio for our weekly musical game, the Piano Puzzler.

"To be or not to be." That was the question for Shakespeare's Hamlet. That question, and the rest of the tragic play, inspired Tchaikovsky's dramatic Hamlet Overture. We'll hear it from a concert in Hamburg, Germany, on Tuesday's Performance Today.

On Monday's Performance Today, we'll celebrate the beginning of the music festival season with an energetic performance of Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires from Spoleto Festival USA.

On this weekend's Performance Today, our newest Young Artist in Residence, Boson Mo, joins Fred in the studio to play colorful 20th century music by Lili Boulanger.

On Friday's Performance Today, Boson Mo, our Young Artist in Residence, will tell us where to get the best Szechuan food in Houston, and how to find color in a nocturne by French composer Lili Boulanger.

With music festival season about to get into full swing, we will swing by one of the first festivals of the year. On Thursday's Performance Today, highlights from the 2014 Savannah Music Festival, including piano variations by Mozart, a Brandenburg Concerto by Bach, and more.

This spring, Fred Child traveled to Savannah, Ga. for the annual Savannah Music Festival.