NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: San Marcos, Texas / Show 274
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This week’s From the Top comes to you from Evans Auditorium on the campus of Texas State University in San Marcos, the site of the Texas State International Piano Festival. You’ll hear a variety of outstanding young pianists, including a duo performing from Scaramouche, Suite for Two Pianos, Op.165b by Darius Milhaud and a soloist performing the music of Maurice Ravel. You’ll also hear settings of three witty poems composed by an exceptionally talented 13-year-old and meet a very young chamber ensemble.
Performers & Repertoire
- The second movement, Moderé, and the third movement, Brazileira from Scaramouche, Suite for Two Pianos, Op.165b by Darius Milhaud
- The first movement, Allegro, from the Piano Trio in C major, Hob. XV:27 by Franz Joseph Haydn
- "Ondine" from Gaspard de la Nuit by Maurice Ravel
- Three Poems to Sing for Voice and Piano: I. There Was an Old Person (Edward Lear), II. The Eagle (Lord Alfred Tennyson), and III. How Doth the Little Crocodile (Lewis Carroll) performed by Kara Sainz
- Three Poems to Sing for Voice and Piano: I. There Was an Old Person (Edward Lear), II. The Eagle (Lord Alfred Tennyson), and III. How Doth the Little Crocodile (Lewis Carroll) by J.P. Redmond
- "Stars and Stripes Forever, Homage to Cohan and Sousa" by Peter Petroff
- I. Allegro from the Piano Trio in C major, Hob. XV:27 by Franz Joseph Haydn
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