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A century ago, English composer Gustav Holst looked at the night sky, thought about what it means, and turned it into music. On Friday's Performance Today, conductor Carlos Kalmar leads the Oregon Symphony in a performance of The Planets by Gustav Holst.
Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite doesn't seem like music for Christmas, at least not on it's own, but then it was used in a crucial part of the 1983 movie "A Christmas Story." On this episode of Performance Today, hear music from a wide range of classic movies about Christmas.
On this episode of Performance today, we'll explore and connect two forms of expression...poetry and music, for the winter season.
Performance Today recently featured several poems inspired by the winter season. Here is more information about the poems that were featured.
The Canadian Brass do a big Christmas season tour every year, sharing their versions of holiday classics. Their rich, warm sound feels like a comfy hand-knit wool scarf. On this episode of Performance Today, join us for holiday music performed by the Canadian Brass.
Quartet San Francisco is dedicated to advancing the traditional string quartet structure into a new world of vibrant music. On this episode of Performance Today, Quartet San Francisco stop by for music and conversation at PT's very own Maude Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio.
Everybody can recognize the tune of the Sugar Plum Fairy from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, but even the lesser-known sections of the ballet are great. On this episode of Performance Today, we'll explore the Nutcracker "B-sides", with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic.
A fortepiano sounds...kind of honky-tonk, but honestly, they sounds more like the pianos that Mozart would have played in his day. On this edition of Performance Today, Richard Egarr plays a fortepiano alongside the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12.
Stephen Hough is a poet, novelist, essayist, painter, and composer, but he's best known for playing the piano. On Thursday's Performance Today, hear Stephen Hough play Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninoff, from a concert with the Aspen Festival Orchestra.
