The Vera Quartet are currently Graduate Quartet-in-Residence at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying with the Pacifica Quartet. They're also our latest PT Young Artists in Residence. Get to know them on Saturday's Performance Today, and hear them perform Beethoven's String Quartet No. 9 at the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio in St. Paul, MN.
"Tales of Hemingway" by Michael Daugherty won THREE Grammys this year. It's a musical tour through the life and literature of Ernest Hemingway, ending with a bullfight scene from "The Sun Also Rises." On Friday's Performance Today, travel back into Hemingway's Lost Generation as the Nashville Symphony plays "Tales of Hemingway" by Michael Daugherty.
At the age of 70, composer Leos Janacek wrote a sextet recalling his youth as a choirboy at St. Thomas Abbey in the Czech city of Brno. On Thursday's Performance Today, hear Mladi (Youth) by Leos Janacek, from a concert in Round Top, Texas. In addition, we'll continue our conversation with the Vera Quartet, our PT Young Artist in Residence, including a performance of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 9.
The Vera Quartet is currently Graduate Quartet-in-Residence at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying with the Pacifica Quartet. They're also our latest PT Young Artist(s) in Residence. On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll introduce you to the Vera Quartet, and hear them perform Ravel's String Quartet in F Major.
Join host Fred Child for in-studio interviews with the Vera Quartet, as well as exclusive musical performances.
In 1830, French composer Hector Berlioz finished writing an innovative program symphony, his Symphonie Fantastique. It's an autobiographical work, the story of a young artist and his insatiable love for the perfect woman. On Tuesday's Performance Today, Andres Orozco-Estrada conducts the Houston Symphony in a performance of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.
In 1904, French composer Florent Schmitt turned a poem by Edgar Allan Poe into an eerie, unsettling orchestral work. On Monday's Performance Today, conductor JoAnn Falletta leads the Buffalo Philharmonic in a concert performance of "The Haunted Palace" by Florent Schmitt.
Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg wrote a collection of 60 short works for piano, his 'Lyric Pieces'. A few years later, a conductor named Anton Seidl orchestrated a few of those pieces ...without asking Grieg's permission. On Saturday's Performance Today, hear the story and the end result: 'Lyric Pieces', composed AND orchestrated by Edvard Grieg.
Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg wrote a collection of 60 short works for piano, his 'Lyric Pieces'. A few years later, a conductor named Anton Seidl orchestrated a few of those pieces ...without asking Grieg's permission. On Friday's Performance Today, hear the story and the end result: 'Lyric Pieces', composed AND orchestrated by Edvard Grieg.
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