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Ifetayo Ali-Landing

Ifetayo Ali-Landing

On this episode of Performance Today, we'll introduce you to PT Young Artist in Residence, cellist Ifetayo Ali Landing. Ifetayo joins Fred Child for music and conversation at the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser studio in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Cellist Ifetayo Ali-Landing is Performance Today's current Young Artist in Residence. Ifetayo recently joined Fred Child for conversation and music at our studio in Saint Paul. You can hear it all here!

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Finland's pride

Finland's pride

On December 8th, 1915, Jean Sibelius turned 50 and premiered his fifth symphony. The citizens of Finland took the day off to celebrate. On this edition of Performance Today, we'll hear conductor Osmo Vanska and the Minnesota Orchestra play Sibelius's Symphony No. 5, a work that the Finnish government commissioned Sibelius to write in honor of his own birthday.

William Bolcom: Ann Arbor Saturday

William Bolcom: Ann Arbor Saturday

American composer William Bolcolm teaches at the University of Michigan where, on Saturdays in the fall, the town is abuzz for Wolverine football. On today's show, hear the world premiere of Bolcom's "Ann Arbor Saturday."

Bitten by two bugs

Bitten by two bugs

When Aaron Diehl was a kid, he took piano lessons and had a love for pipe organ music. By the time he was a teenager, he'd been bitten by the jazz bug. These days, he can be found playing a piano concerto with an orchestra...or at a jazz club with his trio. On today's show, Aaron Diehl plays from "Etudes for Jazz Piano" by Dick Hyman.

Joshua Bell: Dance of the Violin

Joshua Bell: Dance of the Violin

Listen to violinist Joshua Bell, his mother Shirley and his son Josef read the children's book "Dance of the Violin." The book is inspired by a music competition that Bell participated in as a kid which started as a disaster, but ended as the best day ever.

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Pierre Jalbert: Passage

Pierre Jalbert: Passage

Composer Pierre Jalbert recently wrote a piece as a response to Beethoven's Symphony No. 4. But if listeners don't pick up on that connection, that's alright by Jalbert. He's more focused on other goals. On today's show, hear the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's world premiere performance of the Passage, by Pierre Jalbert.

A Trip to the Moon

A Trip to the Moon

Grab your dancing shoes and dust off your spacesuit. On today's show, we're going on a musical "Trip to the Moon" with composer Jacques Offenbach and the group WindSync.

Behzad Ranjbaran: Viola Concerto

Behzad Ranjbaran: Viola Concerto

Composer Behzad Ranjbaran says of all the instruments in the orchestra, the viola is the voice of wisdom, moderation, and prudence. And it has flair and brilliance as well. On today's show, we'll hear a concerto Ranjbaran wrote for the musical voice of wisdom, from a concert with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra.

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