American Public Media's (formerly National Public Radio) "Performance Today" welcomes both longtime classical music lovers and newcomers to experience the creative vitality of classical music first hand. "Performance Today" recreates the thrill of live concerts by world-renowned artists in concert halls around the globe. The program features classical music in concert from across the nation and around the world, as well as classical music news, interviews and issues. "Performance Today" is America's most-listened-to classical music radio program, reaching 1.5 million listeners on 250 stations around the country.

NPR first selected a Windham Chamber Music Festival performance for broadcast on August 1, 2000. It was the premiere of Three Joplin Rags, Scott Joplin piano pieces which were arranged for chamber ensemble by WCMF Co-Director Robert Manno and performed just a few weeks prior to the broadcast.

Since 2000 there have been over 40 broadcasts of various WCMF performances and these have featured performers such as harpist Deborah Hoffman, flutists Nadine Asin, Tara Helen O'Connor and Elizabeth Mann, clarinetist Alan Kay, pianists John Churchwell and Volodymyr Vynnytsky, trumpeter Mark Gould, English hornist Sharon Meekins, as well as the Aspen Ensemble, Lark Quartet, Zapolski Quartet, Meridian Quartet, Borealis Wind Quartet and the Windham Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Robert Manno.

The most recent WCMF broadcast (Mary Ellen Childs' After Dust performed by the string quartet Ethel on August 11, 2007) was aired on Friday, December 21, 2007.

All of the Windham performances have been recorded by Wayne Hileman and Richard Price of Candlewood Digital and Gregory Squires of Squires Productions.

Here is a listing of some of the WCMF performances that have been broadcast on "Performance Today."

• Ethel, 12-21-07
• Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 23, 10-30-07
• Ethel, 10-08-07
• Britten, Simple Symphony, 07-14-07
• Britten, Simple Symphony, 07-12-07
• Josef Suk, Serenade for Strings, 06-26-07
• Sir Edward Elgar, Serenade for Strings, 04-03-07
• Robert Manno, 09-04-06
• Robert Manno, 04-21-06
• Carl Maria von Weber, 12-07-05
• Ralph Vaughan Williams, 10-28-05
• Romeo Cascarino, 10-16-05
• Romeo Cascarino, 10-13-05
• Carl Maria von Weber, 08-14-05
• Carl Maria von Weber, 08-13-05
• Carl Maria von Weber, 08-08-05
• Cavalleria Rusticana, 08-05-05
• Gerald Finzi, 02-14-05
• Gerald Finzi, 12-15-04
• Gerald Finzi, 12-03-04
• Ravel, 10-08-04
• Windham Festival String Orchestra, 07-29-04
• Unfinished Eclogue, 07-26-04
• Windham Festival String Orchestra, 07-23-04
• Bach Re-tooled, 05-06-04
• Three Encores, 04-16-04
• Ernst von Dohnanyi, 01-27-04
• Camille Saint-Saens, 01-23-04
• Bach Sonata, 10-27-03
• Haydn Quartet from Windham, 09-17-03
• Saint-Saens Romance, 09-04-03
• Quiet Copland, 09-01-03
• Dohnanyi Serenade, 03-12-03
• Debussy's Faun, 02-25-03
• Bach Trio Sonata, 01-03-03
• Performance Today, 07-23-02
• Performance Today, 12-18-01
• Performance Today, 08-18-01
• Performance Today, 08-01-00