NPR’s From the Top: Kennett Square, PA / Show 359

About

From picturesque Longwood Gardens outside Philadelphia, From the Top, with this week’s Guest Host Peter Dugan, features an exciting array of young talent – including a young violinist who got her start in the El Sistema-inspired music program, Play-On Philly, a violin and guitar duo performs a dramatic tango, and a young cellist who once performed at a Chicago Bulls game.

Guests

• Host: Peter Dugan
  Pianist Peter Dugan is equally at home in classical, jazz, and pop idioms, and has performed with artists ranging from Itzhak Perlman and Joshua Bell to Jesse Colin Young and Glenn Close.

Performers & Repertoire

• Jack Boettcher, cello

  Pampeana No. 2, Op. 21 for Cello and Piano by Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
• Angeline Ma, piano

  Waltz in F major, Op. 34 no. 3 and Waltz in A flat major, Op. 42 by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
• Faustina Housner, violin and Ria Modak, guitar

  Histoire du Tango: Cafe 1930 by Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
• Akili Farrow, violin

  Sonatensatz in C Minor by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
• Andrew Chang, clarinet

  IV. Andante molto - allegro energico from “Time Pieces” for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 43 by Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
• Angeline Ma, piano

  I. Prelude from Eight Concert Études, Op 40 by Nikolai Kapustin (b.1937)

Release Dates

• Monday, November 5, 2018
• Monday, April 1, 2019
• Monday, March 16, 2020
• Monday, November 16, 2020

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Support Provided By

Support for this program is provided by Patti and Chip Wilson and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

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