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According to pianist Murray Perahia, Robert Schumann was a great musician who tried to capture the moment in music. On Tuesday's Performance Today we'll hear Perahia capture a moment himself, as he plays Schumann's Piano Concerto with the Boston Symphony at Carnegie Hall.
Silicon Valley is, of course, a center for technological creativity. But it is also a center musical creativity. On Monday's Performance Today we'll spend some time at one of the great American music festivals: Music@Menlo in Palo Alto, California.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
