COMING UP ON PERFORMANCE TODAY JULY 14 - 20, 2001

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

KORVA COLEMAN IS HOST

Saturday, JULY 14

Hour 1 -- Endangered viols and a heartbroken Frenchman:  From the Boston
Early Music Festival, we'll hear music for a set of viols.  The instrument
would have gone the way of the dodo bird had it not been for the early
music movement.  And we'll head to the Rockport Chamber Music Festival for
the Piano Quartet Gabriel Faure wrote after he was jilted by his fiancee.

Hour 2 -- The week in review:  Despite angry protests from Holocaust
survivors, Daniel Barenboim conducted a Wagner encore in Jerusalem last
weekend.  The Leonard Bernstein commemorative stamp is unveiled after a
concert performance by the New York Philharmonic in New York's Central
Park.  And, we'll hear a story about modern-day "Impresario" and tenor
Luciano Pavarotti.

Sunday, JULY 15

Hour 1 -- Shortly after Mozart's father died, he wrote a solemn, but
lovely Viola Quintet in G minor.  Our performance is by the Georgia
Chamber Players from Spivey Hall in metropolitan Atlanta.

Hour 2 -- Performance Today Piano Showcase:  No improvisation please!
Beethoven took a drastic step when he wrote his Piano Concerto No.  5.
In the place where pianists usually improvised, he wrote the music down
note-for-note.  But there's plenty in the concerto to keep a pianist on
the edge of the bench.  Pianist Stephen Kovacevich joins conductor Thomas
Dausgaard and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra on stage in Stockholm.

FRED CHILD IS HOST

Monday, JULY 16

Hour 1 -- What Makes it So Great? This year, Harold Arlen's "Somewhere
Over the Rainbow" was named "Song of the Century" by the National Endowment
for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America.  Pianist,
composer and conductor Robert Kapilow joins Fred in Studio 4-A to find a
hidden message behind the music.

Hour 2 -- American blockbuster:  The Oregon Symphony Orchestra gives a
riveting performance of Brahms' Symphony No.  3 in F, Op.  20.  James
DePreist conducts in concert from Portland.

Tuesday, JULY 17

Hour 1 -- Tilting at Windmills X 2:  The Berlin Philharmonic plays Richard
Strauss's tone poem "Don Quixote" in concert in Germany.  And Apollo's Fire
counters with music from the "Don Quixote" Suite by Georg Philipp Telemann.

Hour 2 -- Coming to Terms:  Miles Hoffman joins Fred to elucidate another
classical music obfuscation.

Wednesday, JULY 18

Hour 1 -- Amateur camp:  The St.  Lawrence String Quartet took time out
earlier this month to coach at the Summer Chamber Music Institute for Adult
Amateurs at Stanford University.  Joel Rose finds out what kind of amateurs
spend their vacation under the thumb of a professional quartet.

Hour 2 -- Musical offerings:  We'll hear a sampling of music performed in
concert.

Thursday, JULY 19

Hour 1 -- Music from festivals around the country.

Hour 2 -- Basic Bizet:  Georges Bizet is known best for his opera "Carmen,"
but he also wrote music for the orchestra alone.  Ted Libbey joins Ted to
recommend recordings of Bizet's music for the Performance Today Basic
Record Library.

Friday, JULY 20

Hour 1 -- Rodriguez on Rachmaninoff:  As a child, Cuban-born pianist
Santiago Rodriguez was sent to an orphanage in New Orleans as part of
Operation Pedro Pan.  Today he's a soloist, the founder of a record label
and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Maryland.  He joins Fred to
introduce a performance he gave on July 7th of the Rachmaninoff Second
Piano Concerto, in concert at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson
Hole, Wyoming.  Along the way, he'll play a Rachmaninoff Prelude that he
says gets to the heart of Rachmaninoff.

Hour 2 -- A sampler of recent concert performances from around the county.

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