Tag: beaver creek
![Weekend Listen: Music and Friendship in the Rockies]()
Weekend Listen: Music and Friendship in the RockiesApr 17, 2020This week’s show is the re-broadcast of Show 364 taped in Beaver Creek, Colorado last January 2019. We asked the show performers for their favorite memories of recording with co-hosts Charles Yang and Peter Dugan at the beautiful Vilar Performing Arts Center. Flutist Scott Quirk from Los Angeles kicks things off with his reflections and […]
![16-year-old Benjamin Lee Teaches Us About The Erhu]()
My name is Benjamin Lee. I’m 16 years old and I play the erhu. People call the erhu the Chinese violin. However, it should be the other way around because the erhu is about a thousand years older than the violin. Maybe the violin should be called the Western erhu! So what is the erhu, […]
![Violinist Charles Yang Steps into Guest Host Role]()
Violinist Charles Yang Steps into Guest Host RoleFeb 19, 2019Charles Yang, a maverick violinist whose musical taste ranges from Bach to the Beatles, first appeared on From the Top in 2002 at the age of 14, delivering a show-stopping performance of Zigeunerweisen and professing his love for the violin, “the violin is like caffeine” he said, “…you get addicted to it…if I put […]
