Performance Today
Performance Today features classical music in concert from American Public Media studios and sites across the nation and around the world, as well as classical music news, interviews and features.
Matinee Musicale
Each afternoon, Peter Van De Graaff brings you three hours of the best Classical music available. The program features everything from chamber music, to symphonic, and vocal.As a professional singer, Peter has performed with opera companies and orchestras throughout the world, including the Czech State Orchestra and the symphonies of New Orleans, Utah, Colorado Springs, and San Antonio. He has performed with opera companies in Rochester, New York, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Boise.
New York Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic is by far the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States, and one of the oldest in the world. Founded in 1842 by a group of local musicians led by Americanborn Ureli Corelli Hill, the Philharmonic performed its 15,000th concert on May 5, 2010 – with nearly 47 million listeners – a milestone unmatched by any other orchestra in the world. The Orchestra has always played a leading role in American musical life, championing the music of its time. It is renowned around the globe having appeared in 429 cities in 62 countries, including an historic February 2008 visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, where it performed a concert at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre in the capital city of Pyongyang, which was broadcast live in the United States and around the world.The Philharmonic has made nearly 2,000 recordings since 1917, with more than 500 currently available. They are the first major American orchestra to offer downloadable concerts recorded live. Following on this innovation, in 2009 the Orchestra announced the first-ever subscription download series: Alan Gilbert: The Inaugural Season, available exclusively in iTunes, produced and distributed by the New York Philharmonic, and comprising more than 50 works performed during the 2009-10 season. Last season the Orchestra released another iTunes pass: Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2010-11 Season. The Orchestra has also built on the long-running Young People’s Concerts® to develop a wide range of education programs, including the School Partnership Program, enriching music education in New York City, and Learning Overtures, fostering international exchange.Succeeding Lorin Maazel in a distinguished line of musical giants, Alan Gilbert became Music Director in September 2009 and in October, the New York Philharmonic toured Asia. The tour highlight included two concerts at the Hanoi Opera House, performances in Tokyo, Japan, and their debut in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
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Anja SchutzSnider's supercharged relationship with her art form and open-book stance on depression and anxiety shine through in her new opera, which debuts this week in Los Angeles. -
Rosalía/Columbia RecordsThe Spanish singer Rosalía talks about her new album 'Lux,' a head-spinning, epic album that features classical music, opera and the artist singing in 13 languages.
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In a new album, the youngest ever Van Cliburn winner puts his own stamp on Tchaikovsky's undervalued set of piano pieces called The Seasons. -
Routinely called a "musician's musician," the pianist had an atypical career that even he called mysterious. He spent it returning to a handful of favorite composers, with acclaimed results. -
The 12th century abbess, scientist and composer inspires new interpretations of her music, and new works, on an album spotlighting soprano Barbara Hannigan. -
As one of the most-performed living composers, the Pulitzer winner insists that her music communicate to everyone — from farmers to children to the classical music intelligentsia. -
South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe talks about his new album "Hymns of Bantu," which highlights the healing power of song across cultures. -
Two short operas that got their premieres at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. feature Black female protagonists. -
NPR's A Martínez speaks with Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen about their new EP, Rêve, featuring piano duets by lesser-known composers influenced by — or rejecting — French Impressionism. -
Riley's pioneering piece, which premiered 60 years ago, leaves many decisions up to the performers. It helped launch the movement known as minimalism, but In C itself has also survived and changed. -
A nearly 200-year-old music manuscript by composer Frédéric Chopin was recently unearthed at a museum in New York.
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Watch as Common and Aspen Music School students take Toto's "Africa" and make something spontaneous, yet memorable.
