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Just south of San Francisco, the 2014 Music@Menlo Festival is in full swing. PT will be there later this week, and in the meantime we'll bring you concert highlights from Menlo, including a string quartet by Franz Schubert featuring cellist and Music@Menlo founder, David Finckel.
The 2014 Aspen Music Festival features more than 300 concerts and musical events. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear a highlight from three weeks ago - the great English pianist Stephen Hough playing fantasies by Johannes Brahms.
On this weekend's Performance Today, the Vienna Philharmonic dazzles with a performance of Mozart's Haffner Serenade. Plus, Bruce Adolphe joins us for this week's Piano Puzzler.
American conductor and violinist Lorin Maazel died recently at the age of 84. On Friday's Performance Today we'll hear a highlight from the Maestro's long career; Maazel leading the New York Philharmonic in Igor Stravinsky's Song of the Nightingale.
Violinist Robyn Bollinger is one of the current crop of PT Young Artists in Residence. She also has the distinction of having attended rehearsals since before she was born. On Thursday's Performance Today, she joins Fred in the studio to talk about her musical history and to perform music by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Paganini.
On Wednesday's Performance Today, the Vienna Philharmonic dazzles with a performance of Mozart's Haffner Serenade. Plus, Bruce Adolphe joins us for this week's Piano Puzzler.
In 1939, Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly wrote a set of shimmering variations on a song about escaping from tyranny; the piece was promptly banned by the Hungarian authorities. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear it from a concert in Buffalo, New York.
During the summer, there are great young musicians honing their skills at camps and schools from coast to coast. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll stop in at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California to hear talented young players working with conductor Leonard Slatkin, and playing music by Tchaikovsky.
Each summer, we meet remarkably talented young musicians at the Aspen Music Festival and School. What becomes of them? Violinist Simone Porter was 14 when we met her three years ago. On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll catch up with Simone to hear about how she's beginning to play all around the world.
