Performance Today Features

Live performance with Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain

The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet visits the PT studios.

Violinist Hilary Hahn performs in the studio with pianist Orion Weiss

Leonard Slatkin talks about strikes, lockouts and how an orchestra recovers from bitter contract negotiations.

Top Score podcast host Emily Reese talks about the latest in music composed for video games.

Music writer and critic remembers the legendary Glenn Gould.

Violinist Robert McDuffie talks with Fred Child about the future of music education.

It's September, and the school year is starting up, so here's a classical quiz.

When Andrew Staupe was a child he spent a lot of time onstage, not as a musician, but as an actor and dancer. One day he heard another performer playing a Chopin nocturne on a piano backstage and was transfixed. Today he's a doctoral candidate in piano performance at Rice University and a finalist in the American Pianists Association Classical Fellowship Award. Staupe joins host Fred Child in the studio to talk about life on the stage and play music by Debussy, Mendelssohn and Christopher Walczak.

Innovative American composer John Cage would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. One of his most influential pieces is called 4'33." PT host Fred Child spoke with author Kyle Gann about how this relatively short piece of music changed everything that came after it.