NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: Kalamazoo, Michigan / 244

Sunday, January 15, 2012 | Dalton Center Recital Hall | Presented by Western Michigan University School of Music

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This week, From the Top comes to you from Dalton Recital Hall at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, where you’ll hear a fantastic percussion duo play music by Avner Dorman and a 15-year-old violinist play Wieniawski. You’ll also meet a talented tubist who feels his instrument chose him and a cellist who has worn the color yellow every day of his life!

Performers & Repertoire

Marissa Uchimura, 17, piano
Sonata No.3 in A minor, Op.28, by Sergei Prokofiev
Benjamin Darneille, 17, tuba
II. Hornpipe and IV. Bourrée from Suite for Tuba by Gordon Jacob
Johannes Gray, 14, cello
“Capriccio” by Lukas Foss
Percussion Scholarship Group Duo | Eric Goldberg, 16, percussion and Shuya Gong, 17, percussion
“Udacrep Akubrad” by Avner Dorman
Jackie Tso, 15, violin
Polonaise Brillante No.1 in D major, Op.4 by Henryk Wieniawski

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