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This week, From the Top broadcasts from the Brevard Music Center located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where 22-year-old violin virtuoso Sarah Chang joins young musicians aged 15–18. Among them, you’ll meet a trumpet player from Hawaii, a harpist from France, and a clarinetist who is known to friends as “The Jimi Hendrix of the Clarinet.”
Performers and Repertoire:
Clarinetist Ben Jackson, 18, from Watkinsville, GA, performs Concertino for Clarinet by Guiseppe Tartini
Violinist Sarah Chang performs Salut D’amour by Edward Elgar
Violinist Hanah Stuart, 15, performs Oberek No. 1 by Grazyna Bacewicz
Violinists Sarah Chang and Hanah Stuart perform Sonata for Two Violins, 2nd mvt. by Sergei Prokofiev
Host Christopher O’Riley performs “No Surprises” by Radiohead, arranged by O’Riley
Trumpetist Alexander Gotay, 17, from Kailua, HI, performs Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, 1st mvt. by Kent Kennan
Harpist Sarah Nichols, 15, from Paris, France, performs Cherry Blossoms by Marcel Grandjany
Violinist Sarah Chang and harpist Sarah Nichols perform Cantabile in D by Niccolò Paganini (closing of program)
Release Dates
- Monday, September 13, 2004
- Monday, April 5, 2004
- Monday, October 20, 2003
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