NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: Idyllwild, California / Show 323

Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 7:30 PM | William M. Lowman Concert Hall | Presented by Idyllwild Arts Academy

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This special show features the excellent students studying at the Idyllwild Arts Academy. We hear a wonderful young cellist from China perform the music of Schumann, we’ll meet a self-described “flute-playing country boy” from rural Oklahoma, and we’ll enjoy a brand new piece for string octet commissioned by the Idyllwild Arts Academy on the occasion of the school’s 70th anniversary.

Performers & Repertoire

Hanxiao (Helen) Lai (17), piano
Etude Op.25, No.11 by Frédéric Chopin
Nick Stavros (18), flute
II. Cantilena from the Sonata for Flute and Piano by Francis Poulenc
Hua Huang (18), cello
I. Zart und mit Ausdruck and II. Lebhaft, leicht from Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 for cello and piano by Robert Schumann
Moni Simeonov (18), violin
II. Allegro from the Sonata for Violin and Piano by César Franck
Idyllwild Octet
III. In praise of nature (In laude naturae) from “Septuaginta” Op. 53, No. 6/11a by Maria Newman
Hanxiao (Helen) Lai (17), piano
Etude-Tableau Op.39, No.8 by Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Monday, May 30, 2016
Monday, November 21, 2016
Monday, July 17, 2017

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