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"Rock Island Line" is about trains, the Mississippi River, and Bix Beiderbecke: in short, it's a brand-new piece about Davenport, Iowa. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear the world premiere of Jacob Bancks' Iowa-inspired piece from a concert by the Quad City Symphony Orchestra.
Every Friday on PT, we feature 21st century music. This week, composer Jacob Bancks joins us to help dissect his 2014 piece, "Rock Island Line."
On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear Jeffrey Kahane and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra play George Gershwin's original version of Rhapsody in Blue, complete with what Kahane calls "a kind of crackle and energy the big, lush Hollywood orchestrations simply can't duplicate."
On Wednesday's Performance Today, come play along on with our Piano Puzzler. Plus, we'll hear lesser known musical gems by Georg Muffat and Ernst von Dohnanyi.
Conductor Donald Runnicles is the Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Teton Village, Wyoming. Plus, Runnicles knows his way around a piano keyboard. On Tuesday's Performance Today, Donald Runnicles and his wife, Adele Eslinger Runnicles, join us to play music by Maurice Ravel.
Performers at the Grand Teton Music Festival find plenty to do both onstage and off, including hiking, biking, swimming, and watching the local wildlife. Monday's Performance Today features the three Bs of the Grand Teton Music Festival: Brahms, bears and birds.
On this weekend's Performance Today, play along with our Piano Puzzler; see if you can name the hidden tune and the composer whose style Bruce Adolphe is imitating. Plus, highlights from the 2014 Grand Teton Music Festival in Teton Village, Wyoming.
Israeli-American composer Ofer Ben-Amots combines Jewish folk music with contemporary textures. And last week, he joined Fred onstage at the Grand Teton Music Festival. On Friday's Performance Today we'll hear highlights from that conversation, plus a stirring performance of his Odessa Trio.
Last week, Fred Child met oboist Elizabeth Koch Tiscione at the Grand Teton Music Festival. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll have music and conversation with Koch Tiscione, including a fantastic performance of Mozart's Oboe Quartet and discussion about the challenges of playing music in Wyoming's dry mountain air.
