NPR’s From the Top: Highlight Show 29

About

This highlight episode features beautiful music and interviews selected out of From the Top’s archive, including a rambunctious performance of a piece called “The Tom and Jerry Show” performed by a 14-year-old pianist from Tennessee. A young bassoonist shares the moving story of her family’s journey moving from city to city for job opportunities during the recession and how she fell in love with the bassoon during that hard time. The National Youth Orchestra of America performs the music of Leonard Bernstein.

Performers & Repertoire

• 14 year-old pianist Mayuki Miyashita from Maryville, TN

  The Tom and Jerry Show by Hiromi Uehara
• 18 year-old bassoonist Sandra Bailey from Atlanta, GA

  I. Allegro con moto from Sonatine by Alexandre Tansman
• 18 year-old guitarist Jason Lewis from Glencoe, IL

  III. La Toccata de Pasquini from Sonata by Leo Brouwer
• 16 year-old cellist John-Henry Crawford from Shreveport, LA

  III. Allegro commodo from Sonata No. 2 by Bohuslav Martinu
• 18 year-old violinist Gregorio Lopes from Bloomington, IN

  Melodie by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• National Youth Orchestra of the USA

  “Prologue” and “Mambo” from Symphonic Dances from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein
  Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture by George Gershwin, arranged by Robert Russell Bennett

Release Dates

• Monday, March 23, 2020
• Monday, December 7, 2020

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