Spokane, WA / 12
About
From the Top travels to Spokane, Washington’s Metropolitan Performing Arts Center to bring together some of the greatest young talent from the Pacific Northwest. We hear a performance of Haydn’s Concerto in C Major performed by an astonishing 14-year-old cellist from rural Oregon and meet a 16-year-old violinist who can’t wait for his parents to leave the house so he can blare Shostakovich as loud as it will go on the stereo. And Washington State Senator Slade Gorton makes a special appearance to share his childhood stories about music.
Performers and repertoire:
The Four Seasons Quartet (cellist Paul Crosa, 16, from Tualatin, OR; violinist Megumi Stohs, 18, from Corbett OR; violinist Justin Mackewich, 17, from Vancouver, WA; and violist Johann Tang, 17, from Portland, OR) performs String Quartet Op. 18, No. 4 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Pianist Stephen Beus, 18, from Othello, WA, performs Fugue by Samuel Barber
Host Christopher O’Riley performs Prelude in D Minor, Op. 24 by Frédéric Chopin
Clarinetist Alexey Gorokholinksi, 15, from Idyllwild, CA, performs Concerto in A, 3rd mvt. by Boris Tchaikovsky
Violinist Jason Moody,18, from Sandpoint, ID, performs Introduction and Tarantella by Pablo de Sarasate
Cellist Samuel Johnson, 14, from Milton-Freewater, OR performs Concerto in C Major, 3rd mvt. by Franz Joseph Haydn
Release Dates
- Monday, July 17, 2000
- Monday, March 27, 2000
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