What is sacred? What is worth living and dying for? According to Don Juan, the ubiquitous answer is...love. On Tuesday's Performance Today, take a seat at the Walt Disney Concert Hall for an L.A. Philharmonic performance of "Don Juan" by Richard Strauss.
Imagine a few eggs on a bed of straw. Suddenly, little legs poke through the shells and the eggs stand up and start dancing around - that's what happens in the Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks, from Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear that piece from a concert by the Houston Symphony.
Thirty years ago this week, the Performance Today theme was heard on public radio for the first time. And ever since then, listeners have been asking, "which piece by Mozart is that?" On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll have a conversation the composer of our theme, Jim Pugh, to celebrate our 30th anniversary.
On Friday's Performance Today, we'll go to Tokyo to hear legendary pianist Murray Perahia and the London Symphony Orchestra give a thrilling performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4.
Christopher Tignor is a composer, violinist, and software engineer. His emotionally charged scores and unique focus on live, performance-based electro-acoustic practice has won acclaim within both the classical and experimental communities.
Thirty years ago, the Performance Today theme was heard on public radio for the first time. And ever since then, listeners have been asking, "which piece by Mozart is that?" On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll have a conversation the composer of our theme, Jim Pugh, to celebrate our 30th anniversary.
Every week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a great composer. Then, one of our listeners calls in and tries to guess two things: the tune, and the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking. Play along with our weekly musical game, on Wednesday's Performance Today.
Listen to a never-before-broadcast show theme song from the 1986 pilot episode of the program. Fred Child also interviews the show's first executive producer, Wes Horner, and Jim Pugh, composer of the Performance Today theme song.
Anthony McGill is principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic. In this special online-only Puzzler, he joins Fred and Bruce Adolphe in the studio to take a crack at our weekly musical game.
