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American Public Media’s Performance Today® is America’s most popular classical music radio program and a winner of the 2014 Gabriel Award for artistic achievement. The show is broadcast on hundreds of public radio stations across the country, including at 1 p.m. central weekdays on Minnesota Public Radio. More information about our stations can be found at 

Hosted by Valerie Kahler, Performance Today® features live concert recordings that can’t be heard anywhere else, highlights from new album releases, and in-studio performances and interviews. Performance Today® is based at the APM studios in St. Paul, Minnesota, but is frequently on the road, with special programs broadcast from festivals and public radio stations around the country.

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Valerie Kahler

Kathryn Slusher is the senior producer of Performance Today, where she leads programming and production for the show. In her spare time, she enjoys the vibrant Twin Cities music and theater scene, and loves to read, hike and spend time with her family.


Senior Producer

Kathryn Slusher

As a Producer for Performance Today, Meghann chooses music to broadcast on the show, writes web articles and scripts, facilitates, conducts and edits interviews, creates video content and manages PT’s social media pages. She created Performance Today’s Black History Spotlight Series and the My Name is Series to highlight Black classical musicians. Meghann is also the producer for the PT Young Artist in Residence Series. In her free time, she is a mom, a part-time actress and fashion lover.

Meghann also created and hosted “Wondrous Strange”, a national radio program about uncommon musical instruments, she is the official underwriting voice for ‘The New York Times’ The Daily, and she can occasionally be heard guest-hosting Performance Today.


Producer

Meghann Oglesby

As an Associate Producer for Performance Today, Kathleen Bradbury writes scripts and assists with external communications. In her spare time, she likes to read fiction, lift heavy weights at the gym, and frolic about in nature. But above all else, Kathleen loves to sing Broadway showtunes--much to the delight of her wife, her infant son, and her rescue dog.


Kathleen Bradbury

Jon Gohman is an associate producer for Performance Today. He is responsible for various behind-the-scenes functions, including liaising with artists and creating materials for national distribution. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, playing the guitar, and thinking about Langrange points.


Associate Producer

Jon Gohman

Craig Thorson is the Technical Director for Performance Today. In addition to mastering the live music recordings that are programmed for each daily program, he records guest performances and interviews. Craig enjoys skiing, tennis, and bicycling, and boating.


Technical Director

Craig Thorson

Jeanne Barron is the technical producer of Performance Today.


Technical Producer

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Jeanne Barron

American Public Media’s Performance Today® is America’s most popular classical music radio program and a winner of the 2014 Gabriel Award for artistic achievement. The show is broadcast on hundreds of public radio stations across the country, including at 1 p.m. central weekdays on Minnesota Public Radio. More information about our stations can be found at APM Distribution. 


Dani Werner

This Thanksgiving, Splendid Table host Lynne Rossetto Kasper joins Fred in the studio to discuss kitchen misadventures, misspent youth, evocative musical memories and more in a special hour of PT.


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Thanksgiving with Lynne Rossetto Kasper

The ANCIA Saxophone Quartet is dedicated to the creation and performance of new works for saxophone quartet. On Tuesday's Performance Today, tune in to hear ANCIA perform from "Quatuor de Saxophone" by French composer Ida Gotkovsky.


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The ANCIA Saxophone Quartet

On Monday's Performance Today, we'll take you to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, with music from the 2017 Classical Tahoe Festival. Tune in to hear the world premiere performance of Emporium, composed and performed by Aldo Lopez-Gavilan.


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A world premiere from Classical Tahoe

Hear music written for an unusual duo of instruments... flute and bassoon. On this weekend's Performance Today, Tara Helen O'Connor and Peter Kolkay perform Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6 by Heitor Villa-Lobos, from a concert in Chattanooga, Tennessee.


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Music for flute and bassoon

Johannes Brahms said he just didn't understand symphonies by Anton Bruckner... to which Bruckner replied, "I have the exact same problem with yours." On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear the New York Philharmonic play music by the often misunderstood Bruckner - the gorgeous slow movement from his Symphony No. 8.


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Bruckner's Symphony No. 8

1844 was a rough year for Schumann; he was entrenched in anxiety, fatigue, and depression. Functioning and getting through a day was a challenge - let alone trying to write music. And yet, from within his struggles, he was able to write some a symphony full of light, life, and hope. On Thursday's Performance Today, hear Schumann's Symphony No. 2 from a concert at the Aspen Chamber Music Festival and School.


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Growing flowers in the dark

On Wednesday's Performance Today, hear the Piano Concerto No. 5 by French composer Camille Saint-Saens... and find out why it has become known as the Egyptian Concerto.


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The Egyptian Concerto by Saint-Saens

Conductor Herbert Blomstedt is a Seventh Day Adventist, so he can't work from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday... when so many concerts are performed. Yet Blomstedt says conducting concerts is not a problem; rehearsals ARE work, but a concert is an expression of his devotion. On Tuesday's Performance Today, Herbert Blomstedt conducts the LA Phil in a concert performance of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 9.


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A conductor's devotion

On Monday's Performance Today, we'll go to a concert in Warsaw to hear Leonard Slatkin conduct a vibrant performance of the Double Concerto by Johannes Brahms. Also featured: an exhilarating piece called Gumboots by David Bruce, from a concert in Charleston, South Carolina.
