PT: Five Browns

Check out Performance Today today (November 11th) who feature KPAS' presentation of the Five Browns last May in Kerrvile! And we thought you might enjoy this Rimsky-Korsakov they played as well:

Grand Finale

The final broadcast of last season's San Antonio Symphony is this Sunday. The program, recorded last May, features music by Richard Strauss, Felix Mendelssohn and Modest Mussorgsky. Artistic Advisor Christopher Seaman conducted with violin soloist Elmar Oliveira. The Saturday evening concert also featured a preconcert talk with Performance Today host Fred Child, interviewing Oliveira (seen right on stage @ the Majestic). Listen to their complete conversation: mp3 file

Be sure to tune in Sunday afternoon at 2pm on KPAC & KTXI, or hear it online @ tpr.org.

Here's a preview of next month's Carmina Burana:

More wacky videos of Carmina are on Jack Fishman's blog!

Inaugural Music

Just before Barack Obama was sworn in as America's 44th president this morning, violinist Itzhak Perlman, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, clarinetist Anthony McGill and pianist Gabriela Montero, performed the premiere of "Air and Simple Gifts," composed for the occasion by John Williams. Hear it again in an exclusive national radio broadcast on Wednesday's Performance Today, with Fred Child, from American Public Media - 12pm on KTXI and 6pm on KPAC.

Relive the moment

Or hear it for the first time! We're pleased to announce the Emersons in San Antonio will air nationally this Wednesday:
Wednesday, December 3rd, Performance Today will broadcast the Emerson String Quartet’s performance of Bach’s Fugue, from the Well-Tempered Clavier arranged by Mozart. The concert took place at Alamo Heights United Methodist Church on September 28th, 2008, and was recorded by KPAC. Also this week, on Thursday 12/4 we’ll be airing another Emerson performance from the same concert – Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major, Op. 74, No. 2.
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