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American Public Media’s Performance Today® is America’s most popular classical music radio program and a winner of the 2014 Gabriel Award for artistic achievement. The show is broadcast on hundreds of public radio stations across the country, including at 1 p.m. central weekdays on Minnesota Public Radio. More information about our stations can be found at 

Performance Today® features live concert recordings that can’t be heard anywhere else, highlights from new album releases, and in-studio performances and interviews. Performance Today® is based at the APM studios in St. Paul, Minnesota, but is frequently on the road, with special programs broadcast from festivals and public radio stations around the country. Also, each Wednesday, composer Bruce Adolphe joins host Fred Child for a classical musical game and listener favorite: the Piano Puzzler.

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Since 2000, Fred Child has been the host of Performance Today, the most-listened-to classical music radio show in America. He also is the commentator and announcer for Live From Lincoln Center, the only live performing arts series on television. He also hosts musical events on stages around the country, working with major orchestras and festivals, and connecting with audiences coast to coast.


Host

Fred Child

Kathryn Slusher is the senior producer of Performance Today, where she leads programming and production for the show. In her spare time, she enjoys the vibrant Twin Cities music and theater scene, and loves to read, hike and spend time with her family.


Senior Producer

Kathryn Slusher

As a Producer for Performance Today, Meghann chooses music to broadcast on the show, writes web articles and scripts, facilitates, conducts and edits interviews, creates video content and manages PT’s social media pages. She created Performance Today’s Black History Spotlight Series and the My Name is Series to highlight Black classical musicians. Meghann is also the producer for the PT Young Artist in Residence Series. In her free time, she is a mom, a part-time actress and fashion lover.

Meghann also created and hosted “Wondrous Strange”, a national radio program about uncommon musical instruments, she is the official underwriting voice for ‘The New York Times’ The Daily, and she can occasionally be heard guest-hosting Performance Today.


Producer

Meghann Oglesby

As an Associate Producer for Performance Today, Kathleen Bradbury writes scripts and assists with external communications. In her spare time, she likes to read fiction, lift heavy weights at the gym, and frolic about in nature. But above all else, Kathleen loves to sing Broadway showtunes--much to the delight of her wife, her infant son, and her rescue dog.


Kathleen Bradbury

Jon Gohman is an associate producer for Performance Today. He is responsible for various behind-the-scenes functions, including liaising with artists and creating materials for national distribution. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, playing the guitar, and thinking about Langrange points.


Associate Producer

Jon Gohman

Craig Thorson is the Technical Director for Performance Today. In addition to mastering the live music recordings that are programmed for each daily program, he records guest performances and interviews. Craig enjoys skiing, tennis, and bicycling, and boating.


Technical Director

Craig Thorson

Jeanne Barron is the technical producer of Performance Today.


Technical Producer

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Jeanne Barron

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We met young American violinist Will Hagen this summer at the Aspen Festival, where he was a member of a student quartet. On Tuesday's Performance Today he'll make his solo debut on PT, playing a violin concerto by Saint-Saens.


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Violinist Will Hagen

On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear a concert from Shakespeare's hometown. The poetically named Orchestra of the Swan playing music by Robert Schumann.


Orchestra of the Swan and Schumann

When he took a Soviet orchestra on a U.S. tour in 1991, conductor Edvard Tchivzhel decided to defect; the result is a tale of Cold War intrigue in which Chuck E. Cheese plays a central role. We have the full story on this weekend's Performance Today, plus Tchivzhel conducting a recent concert in South Carolina.


Courtesy of Greenville Symphony Orchestra

Cold War intrigue and Chuck E. Cheese

Franz Schubert's music encompasses so much of the human condition. On Friday's Performance Today, Imogen Cooper talks more about Schubert, and performs a selection from one of his last works: Klavierstucke.


Wilhelm August Rieder

Schubert and the human condition

Richard Wagner's operas are so epic, they're sometimes an inch away from being self-parody. On Thursday's Performance Today, the Cleveland Orchestra gives a serious (and seriously great) performance of the Ride of the Valkyries.


Performance Today - July 31, 2014

Violinists work for years to be able to play just one of Niccolo Paganini's 24 caprices. Then along came a pianist who said, "anything you can do, I can do better." On Wednesday's Performance Today we'll hear the result of that attitude: Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini.


Rachmaninoff and Paganini

Just south of San Francisco, the 2014 Music@Menlo Festival is in full swing. PT will be there later this week, and in the meantime we'll bring you concert highlights from Menlo, including a string quartet by Franz Schubert featuring cellist and Music@Menlo founder, David Finckel.


Christian Steiner

Music@Menlo Festival

The 2014 Aspen Music Festival features more than 300 concerts and musical events. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear a highlight from three weeks ago - the great English pianist Stephen Hough playing fantasies by Johannes Brahms.


Performance Today - July 28, 2014

On this weekend's Performance Today, the Vienna Philharmonic dazzles with a performance of Mozart's Haffner Serenade. Plus, Bruce Adolphe joins us for this week's Piano Puzzler.
