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.
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.
