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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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How does he do it? On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear multi-talented musician Jeffrey Kahane exercise physical control at the piano while simultaneously listening to and conducting the New York Philharmonic.


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Jeffrey Kahane

On Friday's Performance Today, we'll go to a concert down under for the world-premiere of a new piece by American composer John Adams.


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New work by John Adams

The great Dutch violinist Janine Jansen is currently under the weather; she had to cancel her appearances this week with the New York Philharmonic. On Thursday's Performance Today, however, we'll hear her perform Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto from a recent concert in Frankfurt, Germany.


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Janine Jansen

On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll travel to Sage Gateshead in England to hear Imogen Cooper perform a piano concerto by Mozart. Plus, Bruce Adolphe joins Fred in the studio for our weekly musical game, the Piano Puzzler.


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Sage Gateshead

"To be or not to be." That was the question for Shakespeare's Hamlet. That question, and the rest of the tragic play, inspired Tchaikovsky's dramatic Hamlet Overture. We'll hear it from a concert in Hamburg, Germany, on Tuesday's Performance Today.


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To be or not to be

On Monday's Performance Today, we'll celebrate the beginning of the music festival season with an energetic performance of Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires from Spoleto Festival USA.


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Festival season

On this weekend's Performance Today, our newest Young Artist in Residence, Boson Mo, joins Fred in the studio to play colorful 20th century music by Lili Boulanger.


Performance Today - May 17, 2014

On Friday's Performance Today, Boson Mo, our Young Artist in Residence, will tell us where to get the best Szechuan food in Houston, and how to find color in a nocturne by French composer Lili Boulanger.


More with Boson Mo

With music festival season about to get into full swing, we will swing by one of the first festivals of the year. On Thursday's Performance Today, highlights from the 2014 Savannah Music Festival, including piano variations by Mozart, a Brandenburg Concerto by Bach, and more.
