Performance Today®

When Alexi Kenney was a boy, his aspirations were modest; he wanted to play the tambourine or the triangle. His mother got him thinking in a different direction, however. On this weekend's Performance Today, talented violinist Alexi Kenney will join Fred in the studio as our newest Young Artist in Residence.

We sent our Young Artist in Residence, violinist Alexi Kenney, to play for 75 kids ages 5 to 8. Kenney said it was great; the kids' reactions to music were so pure, and he got the star treatment - the kids all lined up for autographs at the end of his performance. We'll hear more from Kenney on Friday's Performance Today, when he joins Fred in the studio for day three of his PT residency.

Recently, American violinist Joshua Bell called Alexander Glazunov's Violin Concerto "real juicy violin stuff." On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll take a musical trip to Cincinnati to hear Bell play that very concerto in concert with the Cincinnati Symphony.

When Alexi Kenney was a boy, his aspirations were modest; he wanted to play the tambourine or the triangle. His mother got him thinking in a different direction, however. On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll meet talented violinist Alexi Kenney, our newest Young Artist in Residence.

Listen to in-studio interviews with host Fred Child and exclusive musical performances by violinist Alexi Kenney and pianist Renana Gutman.

Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is one part tender love song, one part crazy paranoid hallucination. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we have highlights from this unusual piece on the way from a concert in Cincinnati.

He may be young, but he plays with tremendous poise and confidence; so much so that he's been called the Boy Lord of the Piano. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear 23-year-old English pianist Benjamin Grosvenor in concert.

On this weekend's Performance Today, Bruce Adolphe will join us for this week's Piano Puzzler. Plus, he'll stick around to talk about a new series of pieces he's written; his personal reactions to Frederic Chopin, called Chopin Dreams.

After Thanksgiving, there's often a big clean-up that has to take place. So on Friday's Performance Today, we'll help out with a special piece by Malcolm Arnold; his Grand Grand Overture for Vacuum Cleaners, Floor Polisher, and Concert Band.