Performance Today
Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Performance Today® is a two hour weekday program which 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.
Listeners experience the finest solo, chamber and symphonic works—not on CD, but in richly textured live performances recorded for broadcast. With host Fred Child.
Learn more about the music and listen to recent episodes here.
Latest Episodes
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Hear pianist Soyeon Kate Lee perform "El puerto" from "Iberia" by Issac Albeniz at Dendrinos Chapel and Recital Hall in Interlochen, MI. -
Hear a performance of "Don Juan" by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on Performance Today. Conductor Jader Bignamini conducts music by Richard Strauss from Interlochen's Kresge Auditorium. -
Enjoy a performance by the Axiom Brass of "Suite del Angel" by Astor Piazzolla from the Cheboygan Opera House in Cheboygan, MI. -
Hear Timothy McAllister and Liz Ames perform a saxophone and piano duet "Playing with Knives" by Andre Myers in a concert from Interlochen Center for the Arts on Performance Today. -
Hear the Detroit Symphony Orchestra with conductor Jader Bignamini perform music of Giuseppi Verdi in a concert from Interlochen Center for the Arts on Performance Today. -
Fred Child will complete his tenure as the host of Performance Today in October 2025. -
Hear the Ying Quartet perform music of Antonin Dvorak in a concert from Interlochen Center for the Arts on Performance Today. -
Hear Timothy McAllister and Liz Ames performing Alexander Glazunov's Saxophone Concerto on Performance Today. The recording was made at Interlochen. -
Hear WindSync perform Mason Bynes' "Two Stepping" at Chamberfest Cheboygan on Performance Today. -
Hear WindSync perform Kara LaMoure's arrangement of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Pastoral Suite on Performance Today.
