Performance Today®

The Handel and Haydn Society was founded in Boston in 1815; they'll celebrate their 200th birthday this coming spring. On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll start the party just a bit early with a performance of Haydn's Symphony No. 82.

What happens when you put familiar, happy Christmas tunes in a minor key? We'll find out on Tuesday's Performance Today, when we hear the Dallas Winds play David Lovrien's "Minor Alterations".

American pianist Garrick Ohlsson won the Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1970. But his career encompasses so much more than just music by Chopin. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll go to a concert in Cincinnati to hear Ohlsson and the Cincinnati Symphony play Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto.

Need a little sunshine? On this weekend's Performance Today, come take a musical trip to Los Angeles to hear Brahms' sunniest symphony. Plus, Bruce Adolphe joins us for our weekly Piano Puzzler.

On Friday's Performance Today, we have romantic, dramatic music by Rachmaninoff from a concert in Los Angeles. Lise de la Salle tearing up the piano, while Gustavo Dudamel conducts the LA Philharmonic in Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Mozart wrote his Concerto for Two Piano with himself and his sister in mind. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear Joanne Pearce Martin and Jeffrey Kahane play it in concert with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll go to sunny Los Angeles to hear the LA Philharmonic play Brahms' sunny Symphony No. 2. Plus, Bruce Adolphe joins us for our weekly Piano Puzzler.

When the young wind quintet called WindSync plays a concert, they memorize their music and play without music stands. Why do they do this? We'll find out on Tuesday's Performance Today, when WindSync joins Fred in the studio for music and conversation.

Wind quintet WindSync joins Fred in the studio to discuss their approach to playing - and performing - classical music.