Dear Listeners, Fred Child hits the road this week, as PT's coverage of the summer festival season kicks into high gear. Over the next six weeks Fred will visit the Aspen Festival, SummerFest La Jolla, and Tanglewood. This week he'll be at the Grand Teton Music Festival in western Wyoming, sending back special reports and introducing great performances from the festival. He'll also participate long distance in next Monday's drawing for the winner of our Midsummer Music Contest. You have until Thursday to enter. On Wednesday, be sure to tune in for our Fourth of July show, featuring American songs sung in our studios by the men of Hudson Shad. Happy Independence Day! Don Lee Executive Producer COMING UP ON PERFORMANCE TODAY JULY 2 - JULY 6, 2001 Monday, JULY 2 Hour 1 -- Menotti at 90: Later this week, composer Gian Carlo Menotti will celebrate his 90th birthday. Fred talks to Menotti about his life and musical legacy. Hour 2 -- Midsummer Music Contest all-request hour: This hour we'll give our contest entrants a chance to hear their favorite summer music pieces on PT. Hundreds of entries have been submitted for the First Prize trip to the Grand Teton Music Festival next summer. If you haven't entered, the contest closes on Thursday and we'll announce our winner on next Monday's show. This hour's highlight: Christoph Eschenbach conducting the Houston Symphony in music from Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3: the first movement, which Mahler once called "Summer Marches In." FRED CHILD IS HOST Tuesday, JULY 3 Hour 1 -- Respighi through stained glass: From a recent concert performance we'll hear conductor JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic perform Ottorino Respighi's "Church Windows." And we'll track down the Emerson String Quartet in Portland, playing music by Haydn. Hour 2 -- Scotland through the eyes of Felix Mendelssohn: We'll travel to Portland, Oregon this hour to hear the Oregon Symphony perform Mendelssohn's "Scottish" Symphony. Young Turkish pianist Fazil Say is also in Portland to play Haydn. Wednesday, JULY 4 Hour 1 -- Our All-American music hour includes a performance of Frederick Converse's tone poem "The Mystic Trumpeter." JoAnn Falletta conducts the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. We'll also hear the United States Marine Band play music by Copland and Ron Nelson, and pianist Leon Bates plays music by Nathaniel Dett. Hour 2 -- Independence Day with Hudson Shad in NPR's Studio 4A: We'll hear musical Americana from the men of Hudson Shad. This world-renowned vocal ensemble joins Fred in Studio 4A for patriotic hymns, war songs and spirituals. KORVA COLEMAN IS HOST Thursday, JULY 5 Hour 1 -- Korva is studio host and Fred Child is on location at the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming. Fred introduces highlights from the festival's Fourth of July celebration. Hour 2 -- Basic Prokofiev: Ted Libbey joins Korva to recommend three top-notch recordings of Sergei Prokofiev's ballet "Romeo and Juliet" for the Performance Today Basic Record Library. Friday, JULY 6 Hour 1 -- Mostly Mozart: The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra plays Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. And distinguished pianist Alfred Brendel plays a Mozart Adagio in Michigan. Hour 2 -- He was a piano manufacturer and music publisher but he also wrote music. The Shanghai String Quartet teams up with flutist Eugenia Zukerman for a quintet by Ignaz Pleyel. A PEEK AT NEXT WEEK Monday, JULY 9 And the winner is...: This morning, PT weekday host Fred Child will announce the winner of the Midsummer Music Contest from the Grand Teton Music Festival. The winner of the contest and a guest will spend a week at next year's festival. Tune in...you may be the lucky winner! All week long, we'll present you with fresh concert tape from this year's summer music festivals, now in progress! CHECK OUT THE NEW PERFORMANCE TODAY WEBSITE!!: Enter our Midsummer Music Contest.... Listen to an interview with conductor Sir Colin Davis....Read and listen to Jan Swafford's commentary on Mr. and Mrs. Ives.... Check out our extensive coverage of the Van Cliburn Competition.... Come to term with Miles Hoffman and auditions....Order your copy of "Peter and the Wolf: A Special Report." You'll find it all at http://www.npr.org/programs/pt/. NOTE: SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. FOR EXACT BROADCAST TIMES, CONTACT YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC RADIO STATION, GO TO OUR WEBSITE, OR CALL PERFORMANCE TODAY AT (202) 513-2370.