NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: New York, New York / 231

About

You logged onto YouTube, you watched, you listened, and you voted! We’re at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WQXR in New York City, where you’ll meet the winners of the Big Break Competition, including Grand Prize winner, percussionist Marcelina Suchocka. You’ll also hear a 16-year-old cellist play Bartok, a 15-year-old harpist play Salzedo, and all of this week’s musicians perform Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals in a grand finale.

Cellist Brannon Cho, harpist Helen Gerhold, pianist Gideon Broshy, percussionist Marcelina Suchocka, and host Christopher O’Riley perform Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns, arr. Piano 4-Hands by Lucien Garban

Performers & Repertoire

• Brannon Cho, 16, cello

  Romanian Folk Dances by Béla Bartók
• Helen Gerhold, 15, harp

  Variations Sur Un Theme Dans Le Style Ancien by Carlos Salzedo
• Gideon Broshy, 17, piano

  “Two Motions in One Movement” by Samuel Zyman
• Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Marcelina Suchocka, 17, piano

  Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra, Movement III by Anders Koppel

Release Dates

• Monday, October 24, 2011
• Monday, May 16, 2011

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Support Provided By

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

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