Great Performances

Find some great performances! The League of American Orchestras has published a comprehensive guide to the symphonic livestreams of its members on this website. The Seattle Symphony is posting little musical gems every morning under the hashtag #morningnotes.

Here's a great, hopeful song: "You Will Be Found" from the musical Dear Evan Hansen.

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Pittsburgh Symphony "Bright Spots"

Every day, the Pittsburgh Symphony is posting music and insights from their musicians out to the wider world. Check out their bassist's version of Hadyn's 31st Symphony from April 9th! You don't get to see a bass player enjoy that many notes too often- and he has really great control over light, beautiful phrasing! For more fun low stuff, check out the April 7th video- contrabassoon (in the upper right corner) for the win- or the April 2nd tuba "Meditation."

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I'm a big fan of the Prague Cello Quartet playing Bohemian Rhapsody.

This is a lovely version of "Hallelujah" from the Chicago Symphony.

The CSO's Ken Olsen and Lyric's Craig Terry in 'Hallelujah'

Mariachi Flor De Toloache will bring some joy to your day; they did to mine. Extra points if you do the singalong about 8 minutes in!

Music doesn't have to be fast to be interesting and moving!

If you watched the series finale of The Good Place, you heard Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel for Cello and Piano throughout. It takes incredible technique and control to play something this simple this beautifully.

I came across this gorgeous Tiny Desk Concert of composer Max Richter with a string quintet today. The notes for the performance read, in part: "Half way through this performance of Max Richter's achingly beautiful On The Nature Of Daylight, I looked around our NPR Music office and saw trembling chins and tearful eyes. Rarely have I seen so many Tiny Desk audience members moved in this way. There's something about Max Richter's music that triggers deep emotions."