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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 

Hosted by Valerie Kahler, 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.

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Valerie Kahler

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

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 APM Distribution. 


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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.


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Dvorak's New World Symphony

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.


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The flag was still there

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.


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Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements

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.


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Strauss' Don Quixote

Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote his Symphonic Dances in 1940; it was the last major work he finished before he died. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra give a dramatic performance of Rachmaninoff's last large work.


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Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel might be only 33 years old, but he has worked with great orchestras and soloists around the world. And he says violinist Janine Jansen's interpretation of the Violin Concerto by Mendelssohn is among the best he's ever heard. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll Jansen perform that piece in concert in Los Angeles.


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Jansen and Mendelssohn

On this weekend's Performance Today, we have musical highlights from around the world, including a performance of Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending by Hilary Hahn and the London Symphony Orchestra. Plus, Bruce Adolphe has this week's Piano Puzzler.


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The Lark Ascending

On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear music that Sergei Prokofiev wrote for the satirical film Lieutenant Kije, which depicts the noble life and tragic death of a soldier who never existed.


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