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From the Top with Host Christopher O'Riley: Classical Music Podcast From the Top, hosted by acclaimed concert pianist Christopher O'Riley, showcases the music, stories, and unique humor of America's best young classical musicians.

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From the Top with Host Christopher O'Riley

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From the Top, hosted by acclaimed concert pianist Christopher O'Riley, showcases the music, stories, and unique humor of America's best young classical musicians.More from From the Top with Host Christopher O'Riley »

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Fattening up your 16th notes — Christopher O_Riley coaches a young violinist

Fattening up your 16th notes — Christopher O_Riley coaches a young violinist

Fattening up your 16th notes — Christopher O_Riley coaches a young violinist

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Show 336 | Longview TX

From Longview, Texas this week's program features a 12-year-old pianist from East Texas performing the music of Paderewski, a heartfelt performance of Faure's "Elegy" performed by a teenager from the Chicago area and we'll hear a moving from the young flutist on the program who's rancher grandfather sold much of his herd of cattle to support her musical studies.

Show 336 | Longview TX

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Show HL-25

Featuring nearly twice as much music as From the Top's regular episodes, this highlights program celebrates some of the best performances by young people From the Top has presented over the past couple of seasons. An irresistibly charming 11-year-old violinist performs the music of Claude Debussy, a teenage soprano describes her charmed meeting with the great opera diva Renee Fleming, and we'll hear one of the greatest young trumpet players we've ever had on the program perform Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

Show HL-25

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Show 335 | Danville KY

From Danville, Kentucky, this week's From the Top features a 10-year-old violinist performing the music of Edward Elgar — she also shares some colorful stories of growing up in Kentucky with her 6 siblings. Also on the program, a beautifully detailed classical guitar performance by a young man from South Carolina and Chopin performed by a talented teenager from Massachusetts.

Show 335 | Danville KY

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Dynamics and Being Musically Conscious_ a rehearsal Beethoven_s Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 8

Dynamics and Being Musically Conscious_ a rehearsal Beethoven_s Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 8

Dynamics and Being Musically Conscious_ a rehearsal Beethoven_s Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 8

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Show 345 | Reno NV

From the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts in Reno, Nevada, this week's From the Top features a local 18-year-old violinist who's had an asteroid named after him, a young pianist thrills the audience with a piece by Ginastera, and the winners of the junior division of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition performs Bartok.

Show 345 | Reno NV

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Show 326 | Cleveland OH

Recorded in front of a live audience in the television studios of Ideastream, Cleveland Ohio's public media station, this week's From the Top features an Octet of Cleveland area kids performing the music of Mendelssohn, we meet a young pianist who co-founded a youth orchestra as a teenager and a teenage bassoonist with an outspoken and playful personality performs the music of Weber.

Show 326 | Cleveland OH

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Interview with composer Zhou Long, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Music

Host Christopher O'Riley sits down with composer Zhou Long, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Music, to discuss Zhou's early life and career as well as his piece "Rhyme of Taigu" which was performed by the National Youth Orchestra of China on From the Top's Show 344.

Interview with composer Zhou Long, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Music

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Show 344 | East Stroudsburg PA

From East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, this week's From the Top features more than 100 young musicians from across Mainland China in their first ever public performance as the National Youth Orchestra of China under the direction of Maestro Ludovic Morlot. We hear the full ensemble perform "Rhyme of Taigu" by Pulitzer-Prize-winning composer Zhou Long, a young clarinetist shares how he fell in love with the clarinet's sound at his first concert, and five members of the ensemble perform the energetic first movement of Francis Poulenc's Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet with Christopher O'Riley.

Show 344 | East Stroudsburg PA

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10 questions for the great conductor Marin Alsop

Hear Marin Alsop, guest conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of the USA and music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, tell Christopher O'Riley what's on her radio, what color she cannot wear, and what instrument she should have played and more.

10 questions for the great conductor Marin Alsop

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