Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, & an Award-Winning Sax Quartet | Show 415

About

This week we meet a blind tenor from coastal Maine who lobsters with his dad, a talented teenage violinist who got his start following YouTube tutorials, an award-winning teenage sax quartet, a pianist who is passionate about music history, and a violinist who performs a beautiful work by contemporary composer Jessie Montgomery.

Guests

• Host: Peter Dugan
  Peter Dugan's position is sponsored by Susan and Gerald Slavet

Performers & Repertoire

• Samuel Igbo, violin, 16, from Boerne, TX

  Fantasie No. 1 for Violin by Florence Price (1887 - 1953)
• Ellen Foreman, piano, 16, from San Antonio, TX

  Sonata No. 2: III. Vivo (Toccata) by Grazyna Bacewicz (1909 - 1969)
• Noah Carver, voice, 18, from Beals, ME

  Music for a While by Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695) with pianist Gary Magby
• Amelia Cannavo, violin, 17, from Barnegat Light, NJ
  

  Rhapsody No. 2 for Violin by Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981)
• The Aurelian Quartet:
  GianCarlo Lay, saxophone, 18, from Carollton, TX
  Jaden Coleman, saxophone,
  Andrew George, saxophone, 18, from The Colony, TX
  Aadarsh Bailreddy, saxophone, 19, from Lewisville, TX
  

  Phantom Dance by Yosuke Fukuda (b. 1975)

Release Dates

• Monday, May 30, 2022
• Monday, March 18, 2024

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