Recently, PT was on location at the 2015 Grand Teton Music Festival for 'A Night with Performance Today.' Listen to live music and conversation from that event, including on stage performances of a trio by Alexander Zemlinsky and music for brass ensemble by Bruce Broughton.
On Monday's Performance Today, we'll have highlights from the 2015 Grand Teton Music Festival. Among them, the festival's Music Director, Donald Runnicles, joins Fred Child for an on stage chat before teaming up with cellist Joel Noyes to play music by Robert Schumann.
Recently, PT was on location at the 2015 Grand Teton Music Festival for 'A Night with Performance Today.' Listen to live music and conversation from that event, including on stage performances of Douglas Hill's Bass 'n' Brass Trio and Robert Schumann's Three Fantasy Pieces.
On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll head to a concert in Switzerland to hear the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra play one of the great tragic love stories told in music: Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. Plus, composer Bruce Adolphe has this week's Piano Puzzler.
On Friday's Performance Today, we'll return to this summer's BBC Proms to hear Qigang Chen's Iris Unveiled, a stunning piece for three female voices, three traditional Chinese instruments, and an orchestra.
American pianist Garrick Ohlsson says that it's possible to play the entire piano part of the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, but just barely. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear Ohlsson rise to the challenge at a concert he gave this summer at the Grand Teton Music Festival.
William Bolcom's father was a wonderful dancer. When his father died, Bolcom wrote a sweet tribute called "The Graceful Ghost." It's on the way from a concert at the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. That's on Wednesday's Performance Today.
On Tuesday's Performance Today, we have an entire hour devoted to music of the planets and stars. Plus, we'll hear special selections from this year's BBC Proms.
David Grossman plays double bass as a member of the New York Philharmonic; we spoke with him in his home about the art of practicing. On Monday's Performance Today we'll hear highlights from that conversation, plus we'll hear Grossman and his colleagues play music by Mozart.
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