NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley Boston, Massachusetts / 285

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This week’s From the Top was recorded at Calderwood Hall at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, as part of the Massachusetts’ Cultural Council’s National Summit on Creative Youth Development. You’ll meet a guitarist who’s an expert on roller coasters and a teenage cellist from New Orleans whose family is French-American but who loves all things Korean. Performances on this show range from a Chopin piano favorite to the wild ride of a trombone quartet.

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Performers & Repertoire

• Tristan Flores, 15, violin

  Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, Op. 28, by Camille Saint-Saëns, with pianist Christopher O'Riley
• Phuong Nghi Pham, 18, piano

  The first movement, Grave-Doppio movimento, from Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35, by Frédéric Chopin
• The Bone Rangers Trombone Quartet
  Tanner Jackson, 17; Alex Kusper, 15; Gabriel Ramos, 17; Ivan Saenz, 15

  The second movement, Presto, from Tissington Variations by Raymond Premru
• Georgia Bourderionnet, 17, cello

  The second movement, Allegro, from Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 40, by Dmitri Shostakovich, with pianist Christopher O'Riley
• David Steinhardt, 17, guitar

  "Usher-Waltz" by Nikita Koshkin (b. 1956) Performance video
• The Bone Rangers and David Steinhardt

  "No More Blues" by Antônio Carlos Jobim, arr. Kim Scharnberg
• Ivan Saenz, trombone

  Presto, from Tissington Variations by Raymond Premru and “No More Blues” by Antônio Carlos Jobim, arranged by Kim Scharnberg
• Gabriel Ramos, trombone

  Presto from Tissington Variations by Raymond Premru and “No More Blues” by Antônio Carlos Jobim, arranged by Kim Scharnberg

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Release Dates

• Monday, September 29, 2014
• Monday, April 21, 2014
• Monday, August 31, 2015

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The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
The Massachusetts Cultural Council

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