From the Top

From the Media Arts Center at Roxbury Community College, this episode was taped for kids from Conservatory Lab Charter School in Boston, and features the Chicago-based teenage trombone quartet The Bone Rangers, as well as a young violinist who skipped his own high school graduation to appear on From the Top.

• Samuele Parrini, 18 year-old violinist from Greenville, South Carolina performing Polonaise brillante No.2, Op.21 by Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880), with Christopher O’Riley, piano
• Han Lee, 18-year-old cellist from Hicksville, New York performing IV. Allegro from the Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 40 by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), with Christopher O’Riley, piano
• The Bone Rangers from the Merit School of Music in Chicago performing  "Canzona" by Biagio Marini (1594-1663) and"Intrada" by Walter Ross (b.1936)
• Robert Diaz, 17-year-old oboist from Clearwater, Florida performing I.Élégie from the Sonata for Oboe and Piano by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), with Christopher O’Riley, piano
• Maxine Park, 13-year-old pianist from Hanover, New Hampshire performing VI. Capriccio from Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and VI. Pastoral: Allegro moderato from Eight Concert Études, Op 40 by Nikolai Kapustin (b.1937)
• Samuele Parrini, 18-year-old violinist from Greenville, South Carolina performing Tambourin Chinois, Op.3 by Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) with Christopher O’Riley, piano