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It goes around and around: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, and the cycle repeats. So, would music inspired by the ecological water cycle also have no beginning and no end? We'll find out, with music by Libby Larsen on this edition of Performance Today.
Concert curator Geoff Nuttall loves cellos - can't get enough of them. But he says that getting four cellists onstage at the same time is like trying to get four unicorns together. On today's show, a rare sighting: four all-star cellists at the Spoleto Festival USA perform "When the Night" by Paul Wiancko.
In today's episode, we’ll hear an extraordinary piece of music that just doesn't get played very often. It's a piece that French composer Florent Schmitt wrote for a ballet in Paris in 1933. Conductor JoAnn Falletta leads the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Oriane and the Prince of Love by Florent Schmitt.
Join us today to hear a new marimba concerto by composer Alexis Alrich, with Dame Evelyn Glennie on the marimba with conductor Jean Thorel leading the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong.
Claude Debussy completed what many consider to be his first important work, his String Quartet in G Minor. The composition follows the traditional string quartet form, but the music within was something completely new. On today's show, hear the Schumann Quartet perform Debussy's only string quartet from a concert at the Music@Menlo chamber music festival and institute.
Kenji Bunch gave one of his recent compositions a rather unusual title. Join us today to hear this piece and the story behind that title: 'The 3 Gs' by Kenji Bunch.
Concert curator Geoff Nuttall loves cellos. Can't get enough of them. But he says that getting four cellists onstage at the same time is like trying to get four unicorns together. On today's show, a rare sighting: four all-star cellists at the Spoleto Festival USA perform "When the Night" by Paul Wiancko.
Meet Performance Today’s next PT Young Artist, 16-year-old violinist Anais Feller. Host Fred Child and Anais spoke over Zoom, with musical selections recorded for PT at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. Listen now.
Grazyna Bacewicz was a composer in Poland in the mid-20th century. Even during the Second World War, she was part of an underground concert scene. We'll hear a piece she wrote in Warsaw in the middle of 1943 on this episode of Performance Today.
