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On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear highlights from recent concerts in Paris and New York. From New York, the ethereal Vocalise by Rachmaninoff; and from Paris, a rollicking performance of Dvorak's Violin Concerto.
It's a concert hall inside an old barge, floating on the East River in Brooklyn. From your concert seat, you can see the Manhattan skyline and feel the movement of the river. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll go to Bargemusic to hear music by Bach.
Matthias Maute loves music from the early 1700s - partly because composers generally didn't write everything out. As he puts it, "you get only the melodies, and everything else must be invented." On Wednesday's Performance Today, Maute and the rest of the ensemble REBEL join Fred in the studio for baroque music with a certain amount of improvisation.
Early music ensemble REBEL joins Fred in the studio to perform early music and to discuss how they find room for improvisation in written scores.
On Veterans Day, retired Army bugler Sgt. Major Woodrow English joins us to discuss the history and meaning of "Taps." Plus a full show dedicated to the remembrance of the Great War, including music by Ravel, Butterworth, and Suk.
On Monday's Performance Today, we'll go to a concert at Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles to hear the Los Angeles Philharmonic play a piece that Felix Mendelssohn called his "celebration of a religious revolution."
On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear the warm sound of ensemble Arcangelo as they perform music by Handel on period instruments at Carnegie Hall.
For his Carnegie Hall debut, PT Young Artist Steven Lin asked a friend to compose something new - but he had one special request. Find out what it was, and hear Lin play music by a friend on Friday's Performance Today.
Our current PT Young Artist in Residence is OK with music competitions - up to a point. On Thursday's Performance Today, Steven Lin will tell us why he believes competitions should never be taken too seriously.
