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With music festival season about to get into full swing, we will swing by one of the first festivals of the year. On Thursday's Performance Today, highlights from the 2014 Savannah Music Festival, including piano variations by Mozart, a Brandenburg Concerto by Bach, and more.
This spring, Fred Child traveled to Savannah, Ga. for the annual Savannah Music Festival.
Violinist Bosun Mo is our new Young Artist in Residence. On Wednesday's Performance Today he joins Fred in the studio to discuss a violin-related hazard, and to play music by Maurice Ravel.
Listen to in-studio interviews with host Fred Child and exclusive musical performances by violinist Boson Mo and pianist Andrew Staupe.
Renaud and Gautier Capucon are celebrities in their native France. This is hardly surprising, given that the two brothers are smart, photogenic, and deeply talented. On Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear from a concert they gave in the birthplace of celebrity: Los Angeles.
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 Monday's Performance Today you may recognize the same epic sound in Korngold's Violin Concerto, which we'll hear from a concert in Stockholm, Sweden.
Violinist Hilary Hahn recently got twenty-seven composers to write encores for her. On this weekend's Performance Today we'll hear more about the motivation behind her project, as well four of these newly-composed pieces.
Violinist Hilary Hahn recently got twenty-seven composers to write encores for her. On Friday's Performance Today we'll hear more about the motivation behind her project, as well four of these newly-composed pieces.
On Thursday's Performance Today, Canadian pianist Louis Lortie joins Fred in the studio to discuss the art of coaxing curves at the keyboard, and to perform Wagner's famous Liebestod.
