A new take on show tune favorites
On Thursday's Performance Today, pianist Jenny Lin joins Fred in the studio to play special piano arrangements of show tune favorites.
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Alisa Weilerstein
This past summer at the Aspen Music Festival, American cellist Alisa Weilerstein gave an emotional performance of Bach's Solo Cello Suite No. 3. That's on the way on Wednesday's Performance Today, plus Bruce Adolphe has this week's Piano Puzzler.
The Beautiful Blue Danube
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.
Dvorak's New World Symphony
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.
The flag was still there
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.
The flag was still there
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.
Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements
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.
Strauss' Don Quixote
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.
Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances
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.