NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley Seattle, Washington / Show 289

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From Seattle, Washington, this program features a local teenage violinist delivering an emotional performance of the music of Ernest Bloch, teenagers from Chicago perform a thrilling, wild, and fun work for sax quartet, and we’ll enjoy the broadcast premiere of a new composition written by an 18-year-old from New York City – an intriguing and ethereal piece “Tropholingua”, which means “language of plants.” You can see the works of art that inspired “Tropholingua” here.

Performers & Repertoire

• Audrey Chen, 17, cello

  Variations on a Theme by Rossini by Niccolò Paganini, with pianist Christopher O'Riley
• Agata Sorotokin, 16, piano

  Movements from "Musical Toys" by Sofia Gubaidulina
  "Mechanical Accordion"
  "Magic Roundabout"
  "A Bear Playing Double Bass and the Black Woman"
  "The Woodpecker"
  "The Drummer"
• Felicity James, 17, violin

  The second movement, Nigun (Improvisation) from Baal Shem, Three Pictures of Hassidic Life for Violin and Piano by Ernest Bloch, with pianist Christopher O'Riley
• Jack Gulielmetti, 18, composer

  Movements of his piano trio Tropholingua
  I. As if floating
  II. Resurrection and the life
  IV. Rising upwards, no sense of downbeat
  V. Finishing a phrase, as well as keeping your own voice
  XX. Resurrected, building to the moment
• Precipice Saxophone Quartet
  Justin Udry, 18; Elizabeth Rangel, 17; Logan Curry, 18; Shane Woods, 17

  The fifth movement, Fanfare/Variations on "Durch Adams Fall" (Through Adam's Fall), from Recitation Book for Saxophone Quartet by David Maslanka
  See a video of the quartet playing this piece on top of Seattle's Great Wheel!
• Elizabeth Rengel

  Fanfare/Variations on “Durch Adams Fall” (Through Adam’s Fall), from Recitation Book for Saxophone Quartet by David Maslanka

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Release Dates

• Monday, December 29, 2014
• Monday, June 16, 2014
• Monday, July 27, 2015

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