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Performance Today
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Performance Today is the most listened-to daily classical music radio program in the United States, with about one million listeners on 230 stations.[1] The program, created by National Public Radio (NPR), went on the air in 1987. NPR produced and distributed the program from Washington, D.C., for just over 20 years. American Public Media (APM) took over as the program's producer and distributor in January 2007 and moved the production to Saint Paul, Minnesota.[2]
Fred Child has been the program's host since October 2000, and remains as host after the move to APM.[2] Prior to Child, Martin Goldsmith[3] hosted for nearly ten years; he left in October 1999.[4] During Goldsmith's tenure as host the show grew from 40 stations to 230, with weekly listeners reaching 1.5 million.
Performance Today builds its two-hour daily broadcast[5] mostly on recent concert performances from around the world. The show also airs in-studio recitals, music-related interviews, and the weekly "Piano Puzzler" featuring composer Bruce Adolphe.
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- ^ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4
- ^ a b http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/5563.html
- ^ Goldsmith is no relation to the B-movie screenwriter of the same name.
- ^ http://www.npr.org/about/press/990920.goldsmith.html
- ^ Some public radio stations broadcast only one hour of the program.