Poster Fred Child
Fred Child
MPR

Performance Today®

with host Fred Child

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Happy Birthday, Ginastera!

Happy Birthday, Ginastera!

Composer Alberto Ginastera was born one hundred years ago today. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll say feliz cumpleaños to the great Argentine composer, and we'll hear pianist Joyce Yang play his Argentine Dances in concert in Aspen.

Kavafian plays Khachaturian

Kavafian plays Khachaturian

Violinist Ani Kavafian loves Aram Khachaturian's Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano. On this weekend's Performance Today she'll introduce it, and play it with a couple of friends at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Gabriel Kahane's The Fiction Issue

Gabriel Kahane's The Fiction Issue

Gabriel Kahane is a composer of music who thinks an awful lot like a writer of literature. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll explore his song cycle, The Fiction Issue, and Kahane will join us to discuss his inspiration for these musical short stories.

Arno Babajanian's secrets

Arno Babajanian's secrets

Ani Kavafian had the opportunity to play one of Arno Babajanian's trios with the composer himself, and she came away with some secrets. On Thursday's Performance Today, Kavafian will join Fred to share a few of those secrets as well as music by Babajanian.

Ani Kavafian

Ani Kavafian

Violinist Ani Kavafian loves Aram Khachaturian's Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano. On Wednesday's Performance Today she'll introduce it, and play it with a couple of friends at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Rachel Barton Pine and dancing to Bach

Rachel Barton Pine and dancing to Bach

It's an enduring musical question: is it okay to dance to Johann Sebastian Bach? American violinist Rachel Barton Pine says yes. On Tuesday's Performance Today, she'll join Fred in the studio to explain her rationale, and to play dance music by Bach.

CMS Two's Late Night Rose sessions

CMS Two's Late Night Rose sessions

A popular feature of CMS Two performances is the Late Night Rose sessions - a series of shows above Lincoln Center in the intimate Rose Studio. PT was honored to host the most recent Late Night Rose event back in March. Come listen to an excerpt from that concert, plus interviews with the several performers including Ani Kavafian, Michael Brown and Gloria Chien.

WindSync: Winds without music stands

WindSync: Winds without music stands

When the young wind quintet called WindSync plays a concert, they memorize their music and play without music stands. Why do they do this? We'll find out on Monday's Performance Today, when WindSync joins us in the studio for music and conversation.

The Danish String Quartet

The Danish String Quartet

Three members of the Danish String Quartet first met as teens in a summer music camp. They grew up, went to music conservatory, and acquired a Norwegian cellist. On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear them perform a lively medley of traditional Danish folk music in the PT studio. Plus, Bruce Adolphe joins us for this week's Piano Puzzler.

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