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Conductor Donald Runnicles is the Music Director of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Teton Village, Wyoming. Plus, Runnicles knows his way around a piano keyboard. On Tuesday's Performance Today, Donald Runnicles and his wife, Adele Eslinger Runnicles, join us to play music by Maurice Ravel.

Performers at the Grand Teton Music Festival find plenty to do both onstage and off, including hiking, biking, swimming, and watching the local wildlife. Monday's Performance Today features the three Bs of the Grand Teton Music Festival: Brahms, bears and birds.

On this weekend's Performance Today, play along with our Piano Puzzler; see if you can name the hidden tune and the composer whose style Bruce Adolphe is imitating. Plus, highlights from the 2014 Grand Teton Music Festival in Teton Village, Wyoming.

Israeli-American composer Ofer Ben-Amots combines Jewish folk music with contemporary textures. And last week, he joined Fred onstage at the Grand Teton Music Festival. On Friday's Performance Today we'll hear highlights from that conversation, plus a stirring performance of his Odessa Trio.

Last week, Fred Child met oboist Elizabeth Koch Tiscione at the Grand Teton Music Festival. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll have music and conversation with Koch Tiscione, including a fantastic performance of Mozart's Oboe Quartet and discussion about the challenges of playing music in Wyoming's dry mountain air.

Recently, PT was on location at the Grand Teton Music Festival. Come listen to music and conversation from PT's live onstage event, plus see photos and video from Fred's outdoor adventures on Grand Teton.

Fred Child takes a detour at the Grand Teton Music Festival on Performance Today.

Every week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe rewrites a familiar tune in the style of a classical composer. We get one of our listeners on the phone to try to guess the tune and the composer whose style Bruce is imitating. Play along on Wednesday's Performance Today, and see if you can guess the hidden tune and the composer.

Edward Elgar's "Enigma Variations" is a sort of musical version of Instagram. But instead of taking pictures, Elgar composed musical portraits of his friends and acquaintances. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear Elgar's collection of personalized musical vignettes from a concert in Toronto.