NPR’s From the Top: Boston, MA / Show 365

About

This week’s From the Top celebrates the 125th Anniversary of one of the great teaching grounds for classical musicians, the Walnut Hill School for the Arts! You might recognize this episode’s guest host from his roles on The Wire and HBO’s The Deuce, but you may not know Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is also a fantastic clarinetist. Listen as he introduces to us current students and a few illustrious alumni of Walnut Hill.

Guests

• Guest Host: Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
  A trained musician as well as actor for the stage and screen, Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is most recognized for roles in The Wire and The Walking Dead and currently stars on HBO’s The Deuce.
• Guest Pianist: Jung-A Bang
  

Performers & Repertoire

• Walnut Hill String Chamber Orchestra

  IV. Finale. Vivace ma non troppo from String Quartet No.12, Op.96 by Antonín Dvořák, arr. Beatrice Affron
• Cellist Tony Rymer (Walnut Hill and From the Top alumnus)

  III. Rasch und mit Feuer from Fantasiestücke, Op.73 by Robert Schumann
• 16-year-old pianist Taylor Wang from Dayton, Ohio

  "Ondine" from Gaspard de la Nuit by Maurice Ravel
• Soprano Lauren Michelle (Walnut Hill and From the Top alumna)

  "Si, mi chiamano Mimi” from La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini, with Jung-A Bang, piano
• 19-year-old trumpeter Huanyi Yang from Beijing, China

  Legende by Georges Enescu
• Walnut Hill Alumni Piano Trio

  Tony Rymer, cello
  Gergana Haralampieva, violin
  Evren Ozel, piano
  II. Scherzo: Allegro con brio from Piano Trio No. 2 in e minor, Op. 67 by Dmitri Shostakovich

Release Dates

• Monday, March 11, 2019
• Monday, October 7, 2019
• Monday, May 11, 2020

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The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

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