When you hear dramatic strings in a movie soundtrack, you can thank Erich Korngold. In the 1930s, he helped create the template for the Hollywood movie score. On Friday's Performance Today you may recognize the same epic sound in Korngold's Violin Concerto, which we'll hear from a concert in Los Angeles.
On Thursday's Performance Today, pianist Jenny Lin joins Fred in the studio to play special piano arrangements of show tune favorites.
This past summer at the Aspen Music Festival, American cellist Alisa Weilerstein gave an emotional performance of Bach's Solo Cello Suite No. 3. That's on the way on Wednesday's Performance Today, plus Bruce Adolphe has this week's Piano Puzzler.
Pack your bags, grab your life jackets, and join us for a musical cruise down the Beautiful Blue Danube on Tuesday's Performance Today. We'll head to Austria to hear the Vienna Philharmonic play this classic waltz by Johann Strauss Jr., plus we'll have news about how you can join PT for a trip along the Danube next summer.
On Monday's Performance Today we'll hear the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra give a stirring performance of Dvorak's New World Symphony, from a concert in the land of purple mountain majesties.
This Sunday marks the 200th anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner. On this weekend's Performance Today, journalist and author Steve Vogel will join us to discuss the miraculous history behind our national anthem.
This Sunday marks the 200th anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner. On Friday's Performance Today, journalist and author Steve Vogel will join us to discuss the miraculous history behind our national anthem.
A month after he became a U.S. citizen, composer Igor Stravinsky wrote his Symphony in Three Movements. The New York Philharmonic premiered the piece in 1946; on Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear a much more recent performance by that same ensemble.
On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll go to a concert in Hamburg to hear Don Quixote, one of Richard Strauss' great tone poems. Plus, composer Bruce Adolphe joins us for this week's Piano Puzzler.
