From the Top on NPR - Show 201 Teaser

Tune in to From the Top the week of Nov 9th for a wonderful new program featuring one of our 10th Anniversary Alumni, Maya Shankar. Youll also hear Maya's story about quitting music due to an injury and discovering a passion for science in college, only to find music back in her life nearly seven years later. Hosted by Christopher O'Riley, and recorded at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall in Boston, the program's repertoire features:

16-year-old cellist James Kim, a recipient of From the Tops $10,000 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, performing Poppers Fantasy on Little Russian Songs

11-year-old pianist Adria Ye from Lake Oswego, OR performing Restlessness, Op. 19, No. and The Spinning Song, Op. 67, No. 4 from Mendelssohns Songs Without Words

Baritone Sean Plumb, 17, from Los Angeles, CA singing I. Vagabond and IX. I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope from Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Maya Shankar, violin, 10th Anniversary Alumni Performer, performing Melody from Orpheus and Eurydice by Christoph von Gluck, arr. Kreisler

Ted Babcock, 17-year-old percussionist from Wenham, MA, performing VIII. March from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani by Elliott Carter

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• from the top
• chrisptopher o'riley
• classical
• npr
• maya shankar
• kids
• music
• nec
• new england conservatory

[pokepotter123]

I saw this and it was the best experience of my life!!!! great job everyone!!!!!!!

[piano6861]

Unbelievably beautiful playing!