Performance Today is one of America's most popular classical music radio programs, with more than 1.2 million weekly listeners on 237 stations around the country. The daily show features live concerts by famous artists in concert halls around the globe and from the American Public Media studios 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.

The list of concert performers and studio guests on Performance Today is a Who's Who of the classical music world: the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Yo Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, Midori, Maxim Vengerov, Itzhak Perlman, Andrew Manze, Pierre Boulez, John Adams, John Tavener, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming, Cecelia Bartoli, the Emerson Quartet, the Eroica Trio, Sir Simon Rattle, Lorin Maazel, Daniel Barenboim, Michael Tilson Thomas, Ravi Shankar, Mikhail Pletnev, Emanuel Ax, and Alfred Brendel, to name just a few. Several times each year, Performance Today also features young American soloists with the potential for great careers, as "Young Artists in Residence."

Fred Child is the host of American Public Media's, Performance Today and the commentator and announcer for Live from Lincoln Center, the only live performing arts series on television. Fred’s 9/11 cultural reporting was part of coverage that earned a 2001 George Foster Peabody Award, and his 2002 reading of the audio book "Getting to Know William Shakespeare" won an Audie Award from the Audio Publishers Association. Fred is also the commentator and announcer for Live from Lincoln Center, the only live performing arts series on television. Live from Lincoln Center has won Ten Emmys, two Grammys, and many other broadcast awards.

Hear it on Classical 89 weekdays at 9 a.m. on 89.1 FM and 89.5 FM and online at www.classical89.org/streaming

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