NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley: Opelika, Alabama / 227
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This week, From the Top comes to you from the Opelika Center for the Performing Arts in Opelika, Alabama, where you’ll hear a 13-year-old violinist play Beethoven and an 18-year-old guitarist play Paganini. Also, a young pianist shares the story of how music has brought him close to his little brother.
Performers & Repertoire
- I. Allegro Moderato from Concerto No. 2 in B minor by Giovanni Bottesini
- Introduction et Rondo by Charles-Marie Widor
- Suggestion Diabolique, Op.4, No.4 by Sergei Prokofiev and Evan Ritter tells us about the importance of music in his life.
- Caprice No. 24 by Niccolò Paganini
- III. Rondo: Allegro from Violin Sonata No.1 in D major, Op.12, No.1 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Release Dates
- Monday, January 30, 2012
- Monday, July 18, 2011
- Monday, March 7, 2011
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The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation