From The Top With Christopher O’Riley

Be part of the audience as Christopher O’Riley, host of one of the most popular radio shows on the air today, interviews and records his program, From the Top, for National Public Radio in the Ikeda Theater. The program showcases America's top young classical musicians and will be broadcast nationally on NPR in February 2009, just prior to O’Riley’s return to Mesa Arts Center to perform with the legendary flutist, Sir James Galway.

Program for November 18, 2008:
Sonata.......Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
    III. Presto Giocoso
          Chaz Salazar, Flute
          Christopher O'Riley, Piano
"Devil's Dance" from the Witches of Eastwick.......John Williams (b. 1932)
     Clayton Penrose-Whitmore, Violin
     Christopher O'Riley, Piano
Duo for Violin & Cello, Op. 7..........Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967)
     I. Allegro serioso, non troppo
        Robyn Bollinger, Violin
        Nicholas Bollinger, Cello
Theme and Variations on Carnival of Venice.........Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825 - 1889)
     Ansel Norris, Trumpet                                            arr. Donald Hunsberger
     Christopher O'Riley, Piano
Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82................Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)
     IV. Vivace
          Carolynn Cong, Piano
*Program and repertoire subject to change

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