Performance Today
Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. and 11 p.m.-1 a.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 Axiom Brass perform Astor Piazzolla's arrangement of Dorival Puccini's "Suite del Angel" recorded by IPR on Performance Today. -
Hear saxophonist Timothy McAllister and pianist Liz Ames perform Zoe Cutler's "Obstacle Illusion" recorded at Interlochen Center for The Arts on Performance Today.
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Hear saxophonist Timothy McAllister and pianist Liz Ames perform Andy Scott's "Sonata for Alto Saxophone" recorded at Interlochen Center for The Arts on Performance Today.
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On Tuesday, August 8, 2023 , during the first hour of the nationally syndicated program Performance Today will Broadcast IPR's recording of The Escher String Quartet performing George Walker's "Lyric for Strings".
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Hear saxophonist Timothy McAllister and pianist Liz Ames perform Alexander Glazunov's Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 109 recorded at Interlochen Center for The Arts on Performance Today.
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Hear an IPR recording of WindSync's June 2022 Cheboygan Opera House performance on Performance Today on Monday.
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Hear recordings of The King's Singers' July 2022 performance at Corson Auditorium on Performance Today on Wednesday.
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Hear wind quintet WindSync's June 2022 performance of Rameau's Pastoral Suite on Performance today Wednesday.
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Hear the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and conductor Matthias Pintscher in a recent performance at Interlochen Center for the Arts.
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Hear the Harlem Quartet in a recent performance at Interlochen Center for the Arts.
