From the Top in Nashville / Show 448

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Grammy Award-winning bass player Victor Wooten joins us this week as we celebrate great music out of Nashville, Tennessee!

A teen violinist performs a marvelous work by contemporary composer Daniel Bernard Roumain. We hear a joyful Beethoven Piano Sonata performed by a 16-year-old pianist and a talented teen flutist plays a Bach Sonata.

Victor Wooten and Peter join an up-and-coming teen bluegrass mandolin player – who recently had his debut at the Grand Ole Opry – on a toe-tapping tune written by our young guest.

Finally, we meet the drum major from Tennessee State University’s Aristocrat of Bands and hear a selection from their Grammy Award-winning album.

Buckle up for this exciting musical journey!

Guests

• Host: Peter Dugan
  Peter Dugan's position is sponsored by Susan and Gerald Slavet.
• Co-Host : Victor Wooten
  The five-time Grammy winner and Nashville-based bassist is well known as a founding member of the supergroup Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.

Performers & Repertoire

• Jasper Sewell, 18, violin from Chattanooga, Tennessee
  

  Filter by Daniel Bernard Roumain (b. 1971)
• Katie Wang, 16, piano from Brentwood, Tennessee

  Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-Flat Major, Op. 22: I. Allegro con brio by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
• Wyatt Ellis, 14, mandolin/composer from Maryville, Tennessee

  The Winds of Rowan County by Wyatt Ellis (b. 2009)
• Wyatt Ellis, 14, mandolin/composer from Maryville, Tennessee with bassist Victor Wooten and host Peter Dugan on melodica

  Whites Creek by Wyatt Ellis (b. 2009) and Christopher Henry
• Peter Dugan, piano, and Victor Wooten, bass

  Classical Thump by Victor Wooten (b. 1964) (at the break)
• Aarushi Kumar, 17, flute from Nashville, Tennessee

  Sonata in G Minor for Flute and Piano, BWV 1020 - II. Adagio by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
• Aarushi Kumar, 17, flute from Nashville, Tennessee with Victor Wooten, bass, and Peter Dugan, piano
  
  (Online Exclusive)

  Reimagination of Sonata in G Minor for Flute and Piano, BWV 1020 - II. Adagio by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
• Peter Dugan, piano, and Victor Wooten, bass
  
  

  Sacred Place by Victor Wooten (b. 1964)
• Tennessee State University's Aristocrat of Bands, featuring interview with drum major Joshua Knox
  

  Jesus Loves Me by William B. Bradbury (1816-1868) from the Grammy Award winning album, “The Urban Hymnal"
• Tennessee State University's Aristocrat of Bands with ChurchPpl, Dallas Austin, Sir the Baptist, and Jekalyn Carr
  
  (Online Exclusive)

  Dance Revival by Sir the Baptist

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Release Date

• Monday, May 6, 2024

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