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From Norfolk, Virginia, at the Virginia Arts Festival, this episode features a steel drum band from the local community, and a violin-cello duo made up of two wonderfully talented brothers.
Their unusually generous and easygoing humor with each other is not only charming, but it also makes for a seamless musical collaboration (get a close-up view of their music-making here). We’ll also hear a spirited performance from Mozart’s Sonata No. 12 by a pianist who’s just 11 years old, and we’ll meet a 15-year-old violinist who happens to have some success as an actress: she recently landed a guest role in the NBC series “Believe.”
Performers & Repertoire
- Passacaglia in G minor on a Theme by Handel by Johan Halvorsen
- Passacaglia in G minor on a Theme by Handel by Johan Halvorsen
- Kyle Hu, 11, pianoThe third movement, Allegro assai, from Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major, K. 332, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- the third movement, Allegro moderato, from Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75, by Camille Saint-Saëns
- Kommt ein Schlanker Bursch gegangen" from Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber
- Intermezzo,Op. 9, No. 1, by Reinhold Glière
- Overture to The Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini for steel drum ensemble
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- Monday, June 23, 2014
- Monday, August 3, 2015
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