From the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, this episode of From the Top features one of America's foremost pianists and winner of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship Jeremy Denk as guest host alongside special guests cellist Gabriel Cabezas and the full might of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra with Filippo Ciabatti at the helm. We’ll enjoy a World Premiere performance of a tone poem for cello and orchestra and a conversation with a young violist that runs the gamut from Bob Marley to Nina Simone to Rebecca Clarke.
Show Notes
Performers & Repertoire
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Cellist Nygel Witherspoon, 17, from Minneapolis, MN
• Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Filippo CiabattiI. Allegretto from Concerto No. 1 for Cello and Orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
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Violist Jack Kessler, 17, from Miami, FL.
I. Impetuoso from the Sonata for Viola and Piano by Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) with Jeremy Denk, piano.
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Cellist Gabriel Cabezas
• Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Filippo CiabattiThe Epic of American Civilization, a Tone Poem for Cello and Orchestra by Noah Luna (b.1984)
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Pianist Roxane Park, 11, from Hanover, NH
Nocturne in C sharp minor op. 19 no.4 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) and Prelude, from the Prelude & Fugue in D minor, BWV 875, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, No.6 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
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Flutist Subin Cho, 17, from Keller, TX
III. Salmon Lake from "Three Lakes" Sonata for Flute and Piano by Daniel Dorff (b.1956), with Jeremy Denk, piano.
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Robyn Bollinger, Violin; Matthew Lipman, Viola; Gabriel Cabezas, Cello; Jeremy Denk, Piano
IV. Rondo alla Zingarese from Piano Quartet No.1, Op.25 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)