NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: Greensburg, Pennsylvania / 262
Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 3:00 PM | The Palace | Presented by Westmoreland Cultural Trust
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From the Palace Theatre in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, this week’s From the Top features a local 12-year-old pianist playing one of Aaron Copland’s most playful pieces, a talented 15-year-old cellist performing Schumann, and the fantastic Junior Division winners of the nation’s most prestigious chamber music competition performing from Leos Janacek’s String Quartet No. 2.
Performers & Repertoire
- IV. Allegro from String Quartet No.2, “Intimate Letters,” by Leoš Janáček
- “The Cat and the Mouse” by Aaron Copland
- Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano in A minor, Op.105, I.Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck by Robert Schumann
- “Féerie: Prélude et Danse by Marcel Tournier
- III. Rasch, mit Feuer from Fantasiestücke, Op.73 by Robert Schumann
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