NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: Katonah, New York / 237

About

This week, From the Top comes from the Caramoor Center for Music and Arts in Katonah, New York, where you’ll hear a wonderfully accomplished 10-year-old cellist play Saint-Saëns, a fantastic teenage flutist play the music of Aaron Copland, and a talented quartet play the Finale of Dvorak’s “American” Quartet.

Performers & Repertoire

• Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Sujari Britt, 10, cello

  I. Allegro Non Troppo from Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 by Camille Saint-Saëns
• Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Eric Segerstrom, 17, percussion/composer

  III. Allegro Con Fuoco from Concerto for Marimba String Orchestra by Eric Ewazen
• Jacquelyn Nakamura, 17, flute

  I. Flowing from Duo for Flute and Piano by Aaron Copland
• Malik String Quartet | Melissa Deal, 16, violin; Matt Lammers, 17, violin; Mark Hatlestad, 18, viola; and John Belk, 17, cello

  IV. Finale (Vivace ma non troppo) from the String Quartet No.12 in F major, Op.96 (“American”) by Antonín Dvořák
• Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Kyung-A Lee, 15, piano

  Hungarian Rhapsody No.13 in A minor, S.244 by Franz Liszt

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Release Dates

• Monday, August 20, 2012
• Monday, March 26, 2012
• Monday, October 3, 2011

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