Performance Today
Weekdays at 9AM
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 nearly 300 public radio stations across the country, and reaches approximately 1.4 million listeners each week.
Performance Today features live concert recordings that can't be heard anywhere else, as well as in-studio performances and interviews. In addition, each week composer Bruce Adolphe joins host Fred Child for a classical music game, the Piano Puzzler. Performance Today is based at the APM studios in Saint Paul, Minn., but is frequently on the road, with special programs broadcast from festivals and public radio stations around the country.
Latest Episodes
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Twenty years of programs, two hours a day, every day. That's around 45-thousand performances, recorded in places as remote as alpine ski villages in South Korea, to the great cathedrals of music in Paris, to chamber music festivals in the hills of New Mexico, to NPR's own Studio 4-A. It's impossible to squeeze 20 years into two hours, so here are some sweet memories, thrilling performances, and even a few flukes.
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Pianist Andre Watts joins the Los Angeles Philharmonic and = conductor Paavo Jarvi at Disney Hall for a concert performance of Sergei = Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.
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Small-town America is the setting for Aaron Copland's music for = the score to the film version of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. = The Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, is in = Severance Hall for this performance of the Suite from Our Town.