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The Alhambra is a sprawling palace and fortress built in the 1300s on a hill overlooking the city of Granada, Spain. On today's episode, hear a shimmering piece inspired by the colorful gardens on the grounds of the palace. Pianist Bernadene Blaha and the Texas Festival Orchestra perform Nights in the Gardens of Spain, by Manuel de Falla.

Conductor JoAnn Falletta says that audiences don't realize how much the performers rely on their energy. On today's show, pianist Juho Pohjonen and the Buffalo Philharmonic perform Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in front of a great audience in Buffalo, New York.

He's an avid surfer and violinist. He's led the Australian Chamber Orchestra for 32 years. And in Australia, he's been officially named a National Living Treasure. On today's episode, violinist Richard Tognetti leads a gorgeous performance of The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

In 1930, Maurice Ravel wrote a special concerto for Paul Wittgenstein, a pianist who had lost his right arm in the First World War. On this episode of Performance Today, we'll hear a performance of Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, from a concert in Round Top, Texas.

For more than 20 consecutive years now, students from top schools of music around the country have joined us as PT Young Artists in Residence...and not even a pandemic will keep us from doing it again this year! Tune in for music and conversation with one of our 2021 PT Young Artists, violinist Randall Goosby. Plus, Bruce Adolphe and this week’s Piano Puzzler.

Double bassist Aaron Olguin is classically trained, but he also loves rock and roll. Olguin says that when a double bass concerto by Andres Martin premiered in 2012, it shook the double bass world. On today's show, hear Aaron Olguin play a classical concerto with undercurrents of rock: the Double Bass Concerto No. 1 by Andres Martin.

Due to current circumstances, Performance Today has adapted the concert content from its Young Artist in Residence Program to provide virtual learning experiences in their new series "Performance Today in the Classroom." Today's PT in the Classroom Music Lesson features PT Young Artist in Residence Tristan Paradee.

For more than 20 consecutive years now, students from top schools of music around the country have joined us as PT Young Artists in Residence...and not even a pandemic will keep us from doing it again this year! On today's show, tune in for music and conversation with one of our 2021 PT Young Artists, violinist Randall Goosby.

When Claude Debussy wrote music for the ballet "Jeux," he was picturing a game of tennis between two women and one young man. In tennis, "love" means nothing; in Debussy's music, love is everything. On today's episode, we'll hear romance and seduction on the courts, from a concert by the New York Philharmonic.