Performance Today features recent concert performances by great classical artists from around the globe, as well as interviews, news and features. Listeners to Performance Today, on any given day, may hear from performances in the great concert halls of New York, Prague, London, Berlin and Paris. Hosted by Fred Child.
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Leonard Bernstein didn't impress just Americans. He impressed the world. Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's Music Director JoAnn Falletta remembers the music lessons and cigarette ashes Bernstein left in her Juilliard School conducting classes.
Those of us who knew Leonard Bernstein through his recordings loved his work. But what did Bernstein's colleagues and fellow composers think about his career? Composer Philip Glass says that, in considering Bernstein's legacy, there is a lot that he did right. But there was one thing he thinks Bernstein could have done differently.
When he was a graduate student, Richard Danielpour knew Leonard Bernstein as a mentor, a provocateur and the center of a swirling mix of celebrities. Danielpour says Bernstein was quite funny, sometimes sardonic. But there was one person he would never make fun of.
Conductor Roderick Cox is a trailblazer.
Tesfa Wondemagegnehu has been sharing the transformative art of vocal music for more than a decade.
Titus Underwood is the acting principal oboe of the Nashville Symphony.
Chi-chi Nwanoku is one of the most highly respected double bassists in the international classical arena.
Jessie Montgomery is an accomplished chamber musician, composer and music educator.
Steven Banks is an award-winning chamber musician, music educator, and composer.
Violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama is an artistic force.
Hassan Anderson is a world-class oboist and educator.
Lawrence Brownlee is one of the world's most in-demand singers.
Darin Atwater is one of the foremost music artists of his generation.
Bassist Joseph Conyers is a gifted chamber musician and educator who is committed to education and community engagement through music.
Demarre McGill is one of the most sought-after flutists of his generation.
Pianist Awadagin Pratt is a classical music superstar.
Powerhouse Soprano Pretty Yende has graced the stage of nearly every major opera house in the world.
Trumpet player Stanford Thompson founded the youth music organization Play on Philly.
Clarinetist Mariam Adam fuses the cultural nuances of her Egyptian-Mexican heritage in the music she creates.
Valerie Coleman is the founder, composer and flutist of one of the world's premier chamber music ensembles.