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Robert Schumann wrote a piece with four horns playing flat out over an orchestra, and it's not played very often. You need not one, but four super-talented horn players to pull it off. Well, we've got them. From an all-star concert at the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado. That's on Thursday's Performance Today, from APM.
Yaunfan Yang just won the 2015 CIPC Young Artists competition. We'll have an interview with the 18-year-old pianist and hear his winning performance on Wednesday's Performance Today.
On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll take you on a musical tour to New York City. Wherever you are, whatever you happen to be doing, come join us for a concert at Lincoln Center, where we'll hear pianist Emanuel Ax and the New York Philharmonic play Bach's Keyboard Concerto.
On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man paired with Joan Tower's Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman. Plus, Midori teams up with the Houston Symphony to play Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.
The Minnesota Orchestra's concerts in Cuba were historic and, because of political implications, covered by news outlets around the world. But the greatest impact of the Minnesota Orchestra's trip to Havana may have been in personal, musical, one-on-one connections. On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear performances from the Minnesota Orchestra's recent Cuban concerts.
This summer, it'll be our pleasure to take you on a musical road trip -- a virtual tour of the United States of Music. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll start our trip in New York City with the people and the place behind Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story.
The Minnesota Orchestra's concerts in Cuba were historic and, because of political implications, covered by news outlets around the world. But the greatest impact of the Minnesota Orchestra's trip to Havana this past weekend may have been in personal, musical, one-on-one connections. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear performances from the Minnesota Orchestra's recent Cuban concerts.
On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll head to a concert in Bucharest, Romania, to hear the Romanian National Orchestra playing a set of gorgeous highlights from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Plus, Bruce Adolphe joins us for this week's musical game, the Piano Puzzler.
One of the most well-known melodies in classical music is called La Folia. Scholars think the tune dates back to at least the 1500s. It's been interpreted and adapted by composers for the last 500 years. On today's Performance Today, we'll hear a 21st century version of the melody by Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra.
