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All summer long we have featured great music inspired by distinctive American places. On Friday's Performance Today, our summer road trip reaches its final stop. We'll hear a new piece by Timothy Mahr called "by blue lake, listening, dreaming" -- music that describes a very special setting in Michigan's Manistee National Forest.
Great music can make a great film. Where would Frozen be without a singing snowman? What would deep space sound like without Arvo Part? And where would the Force be without John Williams' iconic compositions? On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear all this music and more, as we explore unforgettable movie music.
Every week on our Piano Puzzler, composer Bruce Adolphe re-writes a familiar tune in the style of a classical composer. Play along on Wednesday's Performance Today to see if you can guess the tune and the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking.
On Tuesday's Performance Today, trombonist and conductor Michael Mulcahy joins Fred Child on stage at the 2015 Grand Teton Music Festival to introduce a brassy new work by Bruce Broughton.
Recently, PT was on location at the 2015 Grand Teton Music Festival for 'A Night with Performance Today.' Listen to live music and conversation from that event, including on stage performances of a trio by Alexander Zemlinsky and music for brass ensemble by Bruce Broughton.
On Monday's Performance Today, we'll have highlights from the 2015 Grand Teton Music Festival. Among them, the festival's Music Director, Donald Runnicles, joins Fred Child for an on stage chat before teaming up with cellist Joel Noyes to play music by Robert Schumann.
Recently, PT was on location at the 2015 Grand Teton Music Festival for 'A Night with Performance Today.' Listen to live music and conversation from that event, including on stage performances of Douglas Hill's Bass 'n' Brass Trio and Robert Schumann's Three Fantasy Pieces.
On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll head to a concert in Switzerland to hear the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra play one of the great tragic love stories told in music: Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. Plus, composer Bruce Adolphe has this week's Piano Puzzler.
On Friday's Performance Today, we'll return to this summer's BBC Proms to hear Qigang Chen's Iris Unveiled, a stunning piece for three female voices, three traditional Chinese instruments, and an orchestra.
