On Friday's Performance Today, we're going to the movies. In anticipation of the upcoming Academy Awards, we'll hear concert performances of music written by past Oscar winners. Plus, we'll sample each of this year's five Oscar soundtrack nominees.
Valery Gergiev is one of the most revered and controversial conductors of our time. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll go to a concert in Rotterdam to hear Gergiev conduct a performance of Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1. Plus, we'll hear a musical protest against Gergiev as an encore, from violinist Lisa Batiashvili.
Pyeongchang is a sleepy little town in the mountains of South Korea; it's famous for potatoes, sheep, and skiing. Now it's becoming famous for their annual summertime music festival, as well. On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll go to Pyeongchang to hear a performance of Schulhoff's Flute Sonata.
On Tuesday's Performance Today, innovative pianist Jade Simmons joins Fred in the studio to discuss what it means to stay fiery as a musician.
On Monday's Performance Today we will go to Houston for a performance of Robert Schumann's Cello Concerto, featuring the Houston Symphony and their principal cellist, Brinton Averil Smith. Plus, we'll hear flutist Ransom Wilson play Francis Poulenc's Flute Sonata in concert in New York City.
The saxophone is sometimes seen as an outlier in the classical music world. But the four young saxophonists who make up the Kenari Quartet like it that way -- theirs is an instrument that can't be typecast. On this weekend's Performance Today, The Kenari Quartet will join Fred in the studio as our newest Young Artists in Residence.
On Friday's Performance Today our PT Young Artists in Residence, the Kenari Quartet, will join Fred in the studio for an athletic performance of a new piece by composer David Maslanka.
Our current PT Young Artists in Residence have made a keyboard concerto by Bach work for saxophone quartet. How did they approach that rather daunting task? On Thursday's Performance Today, the Kenari Quartet will join Fred in the studio to discuss making all kinds of music work for saxophones.
The saxophone is sometimes seen as an outlier in the classical music world. And, the four young saxophonists who make up the Kenari Quartet like it that way -- theirs is an instrument that can't be typecast. On Wednesday's Performance Today, The Kenari Quartet will join Fred in the studio as our newest Young Artists in Residence.
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