NPR: From the Top
From the Top, hosted by acclaimed concert pianist Christopher O'Riley, showcases the music, stories, and unique humor of America's best young classical musicians.
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Show 308 | Chataqua NY
From the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, today's show ...
From the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, today's show features a virtuosic teenage recorder player (a rare breed in this country) who is not only an amazing musician, but also a formidable researcher of the Baroque era. Also, a 16-year-old pianist performs a Chopin favorite, and a young violinist shares a humorous tale of teenage romance.
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Show 304 | Wellesley MA
From Wellesley, Massachusetts, this week's From the Top pays tribute ...
From Wellesley, Massachusetts, this week's From the Top pays tribute to Jewish composers and Jewish music. A precocious 12-year-old violinist performs the music of George Gershwin; a young tenor performs his own composition inspired by the great twentieth century Jewish poet, Hannah Senesh; and the show's finale features the great sound of Klezmer music.
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SHOW 307 | BOSTON MA
In the contemporary spirit of performance trends like Groupmuse in ...
In the contemporary spirit of performance trends like Groupmuse in which young performers organize impromptu house concerts to play chamber music, From the Top presents its first "House Concert" from Boston, Massachusetts, and it has a decidedly more intimate feel. A cellist who's just 11 years old performs the music of David Popper, and we meet a teenage classical guitarist who's also a poet, a neuroscience nerd, and a serious skateboarder.
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Show 285 | Boston MA
From Calderwood Hall at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in ...
From Calderwood Hall at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, this week's From the Top celebrates grassroots community music schools — these are the kind of programs that reach out to kids who otherwise might not have any access to musical training. We'll hear an expressive 17-year-old cellist from the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts perform the music of Shostakovich. And we'll meet a phenomenal teenage trombone quartet from one of the greatest urban community music schools in the country - the Merit School of Music in Chicago.
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Show 292 | Salem MA
This week's program was recorded at The Peabody Essex Museum ...
This week's program was recorded at The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and given the show's art museum venue, each young performer discusses a connection between the music they're performing and a work of visual art in the museum's collection. We hear an award-winning string quartet from Chicago perform the music of Bartok, and a teenager from Maryland performs an epic piece on the traditional Chinese instrument, the guzheng.
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Show 293 | Purchase NY
From the campus of SUNY Purchase, New York, this week's ...
From the campus of SUNY Purchase, New York, this week's From the Top features Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. We'll hear this tremendous young ensemble perform works by Bernstein and Gershwin as well as a new piece by Samuel Adams (son of composer John Adams). We'll also hear a young oboist perform the music of Saint-Saëns, and three members of the orchestra join host Christopher O'Riley to perform a movement of Fauré's Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor.
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Show 291 | Sidney ME
From the Snow Pond Center for the Arts in Sidney, ...
From the Snow Pond Center for the Arts in Sidney, Maine, this week's From the Top features one of the strongest teenage oboists From the Top has encountered in the past few years performing a gorgeous Élégie by Francis Poulenc; a 14-year-old violinist performs Vieuxtemp's virtuosic showpiece, the Yankee Doodle Variations; and we meet a harpist who shares some wonderful stories about growing up studying music on rugged and rural Mount Desert Island, Maine.
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Show 290 | Norfolk VA
From Norfolk, Virginia, this week's episode features a violin-cello duo ...
From Norfolk, Virginia, this week's episode features a violin-cello duo local made up of two wonderfully talented brothers. Their unusually generous and easygoing humor with each other is not only charming, but it also makes for a seamless musical collaboration. We'll also hear a spirited performance from Mozart's Sonata No. 12 by a pianist who's just 11 years old, and we'll meet a 15-year-old violinist who happens to have some success as an actress: she recently landed a guest role in the new NBC series "Believe."
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Show 289 | Seattle WA
From Seattle, Washington, this week's program features a teenage violinist ...
From Seattle, Washington, this week's program features a teenage violinist local to the "Emerald City" delivering an emotional performance of the music of Ernest Bloch ... teenagers from Chicago perform a thrilling wild and fun work for sax quartet ... and we'll enjoy the broadcast premiere of a new composition written by an 18-year-old from New York City—an intriguing and ethereal piece titled "Tropholingua," which means "language of plants."
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Show 288 | Tacoma WA
From Tacoma, Washington, this episode features Prokofiev's Toccata performed with ...
From Tacoma, Washington, this episode features Prokofiev's Toccata performed with a level of energy that can only be described as diabolically teenage (the performer is a totally brilliant, risk-taking 15-year-old), we'll hear a young violinist perform a lush and lyrical piece written for her by her father, and we'll enjoy music from a film by the great Japanese animator Hiyao Miyazaki sumptuously arranged for four cellos by one of the young performers on the program.
