NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: Boston, MA / Show 358

About

From the Media Arts Center at Roxbury Community College, this episode of From the Top brings together a cast of fantastic young performers with an all-student audience! We meet a remarkable 13-year-old pianist who shares how much happier she became when she stopped comparing herself to others, a teenage trombone quartet performs two pieces back-to-back that were composed centuries apart, and students from the audience ask the performers questions onstage.

Performers & Repertoire

• Samuele Parrini, 18, violin

  Polonaise brillante No.2, Op.21 by Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880), with Christopher O’Riley, piano
• Han Lee, 18, cello

  IV. Allegro from the Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 40 by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), with Christopher O’Riley, piano
• Bone Rangers

  "Canzona" by Biagio Marini (1594-1663) and"Intrada" by Walter Ross (b.1936)
• - Karl Kirkpatrick, 18
• - Omar Tlatelpa-Nieto, 18
• - Jonah Blake, 16
• - Rafael Noriega, 15
• Robert Diaz, 17, oboe

  I. Élégie from the Sonata for Oboe and Piano by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), with Christopher O’Riley, piano
• Maxine Park, 13, piano

  VI. Capriccio from Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and VI. Pastoral: Allegro moderato from Eight Concert Études, Op 40 by Nikolai Kapustin (b.1937)
• Samuele Parrini, 18, violin

  Tambourin Chinois, Op.3 by Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) with Christopher O’Riley, piano

Release Dates

• Monday, October 22, 2018
• Monday, March 4, 2019

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The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

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