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On Wednesday'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.

Frederic Chopin died in 1849, but what if he had been born in 1949? That question was the inspiration for Bruce Adolphe's new suite, 'Chopin Dreams.'

Composer Richard Strauss knew all about the French horn; his father Franz was among the great horn players of the day. And when Richard Strauss was 18 years old, he wrote a horn concerto for his father. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear Philip Myers perform this piece in concert with the New York Philharmonic.

Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro recently stopped by the Performance Today studio to play a few songs and chat with PT Senior Producer Suzanne Schaffer.

A look at the The Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project at the Grand Canyon Music Festival.

Fred Child and Performance Today visited the Aspen Music Festival and School in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

On Monday's Performance Today, we'll head to Warsaw, Poland, to hear Leonard Slatkin conduct the last major orchestral work by Johannes Brahms; his Double Concerto for Violin and Cello.

American pianist Richard Goode is thoughtful and precise; with a smart and sometimes very silly sense of humor. All of which makes him perfect for music by Mozart. On this weekend's Performance Today he teams up with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a concert performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27.

On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear great Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Los Angeles Philharmonic give a dazzling performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4.