NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: Boston, Massachusetts / 300
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From our home in Boston, Massachusetts, our 300th episode features an 11-year-old who is not only a precocious violinist, but happens to be a budding meteorologist — his long-term forecasts on YouTube are impressively accurate. (You can check them out on his YouTube channel here) A young cellist performs the gorgeous Andante movement from Rachmaninoff’s Sonata in G minor, and we’ll meet a pianist who, at the age of 14, has recorded all of the Opus 25 Chopin piano études.
Performers & Repertoire
- Danse Espagnole by Manuel de Falla (1876–1946), arranged by Fritz Kreisler
- Two Pastiches for Brass Trio by Walter Hartley (b. 1927)
- Chanson Triste by Serge Koussevitzky (1874–1951)
- Etude No. 6 in G-sharp minor, “Thirds,” and Etude No. 12 in C minor, “Ocean,” Op. 25, by Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
- The sixth movement, “54 Months and Counting,” from her own composition Reflections
- The third movement, Andante, from Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19, by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
- The third movement, Danza Finale, from Suite for Solo Cello by Gaspar Cassadó (1897–1966)
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- Monday, June 29, 2015
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