Performance Today®

On Christmas Day, join us for a musical journey across the country. We'll go coast-to-coast, sampling musical highlights from concert halls, churches, and everything in between - including a movie theater.

On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll hear a special set of Hallelujahs. Plus, Bruce Adolphe joins us for this week's Piano Puzzler.

On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear Christmas music from near and far. Plus, a quicksilver performance of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 2 from a concert in Seattle.

What do you get when you combine twelve opera highlights with eleven popular holiday tunes and ten brass players from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra? "Santa and Isolde," of course! On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear a performance of Bruce Adolphe's new holiday classic.

Listen to our interview with leaders and singers from America's one and only choir school. Their new Christmas album was released this season.

Scott Wilkinson is a professional tuba player. He says that people often joke about the tuba...but not in December. 'Tis the season of TubaChristmas! On this weekend's Performance Today, Wilkinson will tell us about TubaChristmas, and we'll hear highlights from one of this year's concerts.

Scott Wilkinson is a professional tuba player. He says that people often joke about the tuba...but not in December. 'Tis the season of TubaChristmas! On Friday's Performance Today, Wilkinson will tell us about TubaChristmas, and we'll hear highlights from one of this year's concerts.

We spoke with Scott Wilkinson, who runs and directs the Los Angeles TubaChristmas celebration, a celebration for tuba players of all levels. You only need to know how to read basic music and, most importantly, bring your own tuba!

On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll bring you seasonal musical highlights from across the country and around the world; Christmas music from near and far. Plus, from a concert in Riga, Latvia, we'll hear the young ensemble Sinfonietta Riga play Charles Gounod's Symphony No. 1.