NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: Rockport, Massachusetts / 236
Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 5:00 PM | Shalin Liu Performance Center | Presented by Rockport Music Festival
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We’re at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, Massachusetts where an outstanding teenage quartet from Boston performs the music of Edvarg Grieg, a teen from Illinois plays a tarantella by Karol Szymanowski, and a gifted 8-year-old pianist plays Debussy.
Performers & Repertoire
- Zapateado by Pablo de Sarasate
- V. The Little Shepherd and I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum from Children’s Corner by Claude Debussy
- I. Un poco andante – Allegro molto ed agitato String Quartet in G minor, Op.27 by Edvard Grieg
- Fantaisie brillante on Bizet’s Carmen by François Borne
- Tarantella from Nocturne and Tarantella, Op. 28 by Karol Szymanowski
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- Monday, September 19, 2011
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