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Listen from 5 to 9 support comes from Pat's University's Graduate School This is Connecticut Public Radio m.p.r. And n.p.r. . And 90.5. 85. Point 3. N.p.r. . Celebrating the power of music in the hand. Here's our host pianist Peter do again. Welcome everyone we are at the Presbyterian Church in Morristown New Jersey today just about a half hour west. And we are guests of music in the Somerset hills a thriving performing arts series that cause this beautiful leafy section of northern New Jersey home and we've got such an exciting and wide variety of music today including an outrageously fun piano trio the broadcast premiere of a new composition for piano which I'll have the honor of performing and a transcription for we are in a church after all of hosts magnificent Jupiter from the planets but let's start off with that piano trio to play the opening movement of Paul Schoen fields cafe music please welcome from here in New Jersey this trio. We have Ashley Kim the trio's pianist at the Mike Ashley would you introduce the other members of your trio. Today we have on violin Renee choice and on cello you hear a choice wait a minute Renee and choice they wouldn't happen to be related by any chance with that is strange they're actually exists. And that explains your group's name means sister and I talian love that well when you're ready you sisters because I do consider you a sister to Ashley you 3 can take it from the top. To . To to. To. To to to. To to. To. To. To to. To. To. To to. Me. To move. To. It's. Well a very dangerous from here in New Jersey made the opening movement they. Call the trio when a choice 17 on violin her sister choice 14 on cello and Ashley Kym 17 on piano their performance of café music is a part of from the top's new music series supported by the Amphion Foundation and the Aaron Copeland fund for music you 3 that was absolutely exhilarating You all are so perfectly in sync it's almost like you're related by them but but also you're leaning into the style of this Pete you know this like retro Jazz Age kind of vibe that the piece has in such a such an exciting way so congratulations. Ashley according to you guys you used to play this piece may be a little square which definitely didn't sound that way tonight you said it used to sound almost overly rehearsed what changed. So this was our 1st time for a feast that we play and we were really use of playing super classical music like Beethoven and Mendelssohn piano trios So it's really hard for us to get used to this kind of style but we were privileged to get a master class from Jefferies Eagler who used to be the cellist of the Kronos Quartet and he did a really fun activity with us he kind of whispered into Renee 0 only God knows what he said he said something really bizarre and I had no idea what he said Ok and. Renee started playing with random accents on random notes and started playing certain measures really slow and then really fast so it kind of me and I listen really closely and are playing became a lot more reactionary and spontaneous and sort of like always knowing what's going on so that really helped us kind of get out of being too strict and square Yeah that keeps it so fresh so Ok if that's how you got the piece feeling really spontaneous. What rehearsal techniques did you use to make sure that it didn't completely fall apart Well the find it really important to know each other's parts really well so we individually play our parts from the beginning to the end for each other so we really like how each other plays it and the style right so you get to make your older sister just listen up while you get to play your piece. That's great and it really gets your ears open in a new way which is hard to do especially when you're playing a piece which each part is so difficult and virtual which I know there's this piece is having played that monstrous piece. I just have to ask before you go Renee I could've sworn I heard you speaking some French Yeah so basically the story behind that is so we were preparing for a really important performance and we were at the airport at this point and we. He wanted to make a special handshake to really unify us before our performance nice but we couldn't think of like a choreography to it so we're like thinking so hard and then this French lady was just she was really mad and she was walking past us talking on the phone really mad and she just screamed like merit and we're like oh that's so I was like does it is really fun you know you know like what is that to search it up and we realized it wasn't that much of a polite word now. But we thought it was really cool because it also has a 2nd meaning it's kind of like whatever unless just like let's just pour everything out so we like having married before a performance to. To to make sure that we should really spill everything everything that we have on stage and just you know let our little shorts out how I love that I've heard that they're also actually that's the thing too in with French actors I don't know if you guys knew that but apparently they That's like a tradition of wishing each other Good luck so you're in good company anyway can we just hear it from the 3 of you on 3. There were 3 unique stories 74 actually 70. For the last 15 years from the top and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation have awarded over $3000000.00 in scholarships to talented young musicians who have financial need we still have more to give her from the top down toward to learn more Peter Thanks Joanne our 2nd performer is an outstanding 16 year old clarinetist from who's a tonic Massachusetts Alice McDonald will perform solo. And I'll have the pleasure of collaborating with her at the piano House's performance on from the top is dedicated to the memory of a great champion of our organization to be loved. Because . RINGBACK Thank . You So Tanika Massachusetts. And I had the pleasure of playing with you over there on the piano Wow what a beautiful and virtual piece and you played it so beautifully thank you so much very impressive stuff and it's almost like the piece was written to show off the clarinet Yes it was it was written right around the turn of the century $899.00 as a Paris Conservatory exam piece the exams are pretty much competitions and if you win 1st prize then you graduate if you don't then you might have to stay there another year or so well that was definitely a winning performance. You have this method of practicing really intrigues me can you describe yes 2 summers ago 2817 I attended the clarinet workshop at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and the workshop director there introduced a practice method to us which he calls the macro micro macro method and also fun fact I 1st heard the piece that I just played at that workshop and that's where I fell in love with the piece but as for the practice method. It's called that the macro micro macro method because the idea of it is to play the piece for the 1st time learn it as a run through on the big big picture scale so you see what the whole piece just like and then you go into more micro details till you get to the most microscopic point and then once you've gotten there you go back to the other macro and play the piece again and what I really loved about it is that he said at the end of all your practice sessions however many days it takes you to get to that point always remember to leave time to perform the piece so you can see the big picture of it again I love that. Honestly I can hear that in your playing too I mean all of it tension to detail but also I was really struck by the way you created these long lines that scope of the piece is a whole so the really really cool. Do I detect the faintest of an Australian accent . Yes I was born in Australia and I lived there for the 1st 5 years of my life my dad is Australian and half of my mom's family is Australian and I have a lot of family in Australia I know you still go back to visit the family over there and what you do on that long plane ride we've talked about this it's torture yes it's torture so the rest of my family will do what normal people do and watch movies watch a movie of course or read a book or do something that uses up the time that they spend on the plane but I decide that I hate the flight so much that I'm going to watch the flight path of the plane for the entire time yes yes that's what I do. That's that's brutal but I know you're all about the details and zooming in. Well thank you so much else. Thank you for being with us and for sharing this is thank you so much this was done through satanic messages through. Hi this is Ethan Resnick I am 17 years old and I'm from Bedford New York I'm a composer when I was 5 or 6 I watched my older sister Emily playing the piano. And I guess he thought it was incredibly interesting so I asked if I could play. One day I told myself my mentee sonatina and c. I remember my mom walked into the room and said Wow Emily that was very good and then when she looked at the piano she was surprised to see me sitting there my sister I think she probably got the message that I was going to take this more seriously and since then I've enjoyed learning lots of pieces on my own to surprise my parents and my teacher. As far as composing goes I would say that I was 1st inspired by modes or new Mendelssohn So my 1st pieces sounded like they were from the cars gone romantic periods like this piece you're hearing now it's called Dancing founds waltz and I wrote it when I was 11. This piece is my waltz number 5 an s. Minor and I wrote this piece after playing a lot of Chopin and I was heavily inspired by him. I was used to writing in styles other composers and not really trying to find my own voice in music but over the last 2 years I started listening to contemporary music and I realized that I could write however I wanted. Over the summer I wrote this piece winter flashbacks. A major thing that if I said my composition is my synesthesia synesthesia is a neurological condition where one area of sensory perception stimulates another sensory perception in the brain so for instance when you hear something it somehow also stimulates a visual and in my case when I look at letters and numbers I see colors like 5 and 9 are yellow and the letters b f l r n v are all yellow but different shades of yellow. The musical keys correspond with their letters so like a is red but a thought Major is a bit darker and the letters d. And g. Are both green but d.d. Is a darker shade of green and. One of my original compositions is next up on the show it's such an honor to have the host of from the top Peter Doogan play it for me it's called in commandant of that limited by the time which is French for a walk through the Metropolitan and with this piece I was referring to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City while walking through the museum I was really inspired by the impressionistic paintings and because I see colors in music I took the colors that I saw in the paintings and used them to paint a picture and write this piece in order to kind of almost hear what you would see if you close your eyes maybe you could hear stuff or imagine yourself walking through the halls in the museum in. C You're. 2 poor. Poor. Poor. Thank. You. Is yours truly thank you I'm not a target and I'm it took on a time by the teenage composer on today's show Ethan Resnick who's from nearby Bedford New York Ethan thank you for sharing your music with us and for allowing me to to perform and give this broadcast premiere of such an incredible piece thank you very much those beautiful oh thank you I hope I did in his own justice yes definitely thank you again for being here thank you for sharing your piece with me and with the audience here and and all around the country thanking things even. You can resonate 70. Thank you. Daily Joy couldn't we all use a bit of daily joy in our daily routines Well if you sign up for from the top Staley joy video series will have incredibly joyful minute long music videos delivered to you daily sign up at from the top dot org and cheer up support for n.p.r. 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It's from the top celebrating the power of music in the hands of America's kids this week we're coming to you from Morristown New Jersey and were presented by the music in the Somerset Hills concert series coming up a transcription of Holst Jupiter from the planets performed on the organ by a 14 year old from Akron Ohio are Morristown performances made possible in part by the Allen family foundation here again is pianist Peter Duke thanks for joining us now is an excellent 14 year old violinist from Hong Kong now studying in Philadelphia Her name is how to please welcome her. Everyone what we're going to play together we will be playing. Composed by. Ok when you're ready let's take this from the top. 2 in. Order to thank the priest gone. Yes. Wow what a beautiful exciting invigorating performance you know that's not. The best known piece but I think it's so interesting because we've got all the virtuous city on the 2nd half and the 1st half is all about that groove you know and and you sort of transported us to Spain with with that performance and speaking of transporting you've you've been able to travel all over the world as a musician it's one of the great things about about being a musician is getting to travel but for someone your age you've already seen so many parts of the world but when we asked you what your favorite place has been what did you tell us I can choose one cause I love that you love them Oh and I have to say I find that to be a very winning attitude and to reward you for that pun. Spirit Joy-Ann what are you going to do well heater you Hannah and I are going to go on a spectacular Hannah Tam audio world tour starting with. The romance of Tuscany the drama of Rome the yummy pasta everywhere you look you're making me hungry so what were the highlights of your visit to Italy Hana I visited it's really for a come to Sion and it was my 1st international competition when I was 9 and it was for gaining experience so I didn't expect that much and I would say I was pretty relaxed. And I was really lucky to be awarded the 1st prize in my category. And after I performed in the winner's concert the staff member told me to go back on the stage Ok without telling me what was going on so like the hosts of the concert he was speaking Italian. I can understand what he was saying till one of the staff members came out and gave me a violin and a bow and that was when I realised that I got the grand prize of all category. So you got the grand prize is everything and the reward is a violin Yes Oh my gosh well leave it to the Italians to give you a violin is a prize I think you're going to see they give you a. Fine with me Ok Joanne we're going to go next Peter it's time to revisit all the mystery and magic of Japan. Japanese refinement sushi boats Hello. What was special about your trip to Japan I performed in sentry Hall in Tokyo and all. All my family members came to support me and after day performance we all stayed behind and went on a trip and we went sightseeing to visit all places and it was really special for me because we haven't been together on a trip for such a long time but Hanna nothing could possibly prepare you for this. That make you. The sound of Philadelphia by as he so I am from Philly born and raised and you moved to the city of brotherly love to attend the very prestigious Curtis Institute of Music as the youngest kid to be accepted last year tell the story of getting him went to Edition for Curtis when I was 12 and it was my 1st time visiting Philadelphia and I loved it so it works and after that after about a week after I went to church and I received a call from the dean of Curtis into music telling me that I got into Curtis and all of my family members were so happy for me and I cried because I was so happy and and during orientation I found out that I was the youngest student at Curtis and I still am yeah that's pretty awesome Well congratulations on all your successes and thank you for taking us in on that incredible world tour thank you and thanks for the beautiful performance to you. And. More to come along now if you get up you know. If you're just tuning in this weeks from the top is being recorded at the Presbyterian Church here in Morristown New Jersey and so there happens to be a massive beautiful pipe organ behind us to take advantage of that we've invited one of our country's top teenage organist to perform for us next Please welcome from Akron Ohio 14 year old Daniel Cullen are. Great to have you here can you tell us something about this incredibly beautiful instrument that you're about to play well this organ was originally built by the organ company in 1960 and in the late one $990.00 s. It was expanded using digital voices and these digital voices really allow me to bring out more of the orchestral colors that are in the score now I've played I've performed this piece several times before but I feel like this is really the 1st time I've been able to bring the piece to wife. Intended. A hybrid of pipes which is coming out of. This digital component. So I know you know a lot about organs obviously but you're actually really serious organ techie and yeah. You built your self I did so when I was 1st starting out I thought it would be a good idea if I had a way to practice at home so I had been given an old old organ and it didn't have any kind of electrical connections at all so I ended up doing I had to make my own switches out of copper wire and I used pennies to improve the contacts I purchased a $10.00 microcontroller and wrote the code to allow the pedal board to interface with a virtual program on my laptop and I used to. Have lying around . And $20.64 later including the pennies the monstrosity known as the home was born. And I love that you did all that just so you could practice. It's not pretty but it works. To absolutely rocked the house with the Jupiter movement of host planets I love this piece actually I play this on piano I have a piano arrangement but I am so blown away by the way you play it on organ I just think it sounds amazing what do you love about playing this arrangement Well you know stuff Holst assigned each movement in this suite and astrological character and Jupiter is the bringer of jollity That's right it's all flowing Yes and it really comes out in the way that Peter Sykes in this transcription really uses the higher registers of the organ to create almost kind of a virtual shower surrounding this big majestic planet Jupiter and it really makes the piece as fun to play as it is to listen to well we can't wait to hear it take us to outer space let's do this this is 14 year old Daniel Cullen on the Jupiter Cause. That was 14 year old Daniel Connor performing Jupiter from the planets by Gustaf Holst arranged for the organ by Peter Sykes we're going to conclude our show now with a musical treat selected out of from the tops massive 20 year deep archive of music played by young people a flashback finale if you will and given that we're in New Jersey and haven't heard a young solo pianist yet today we've selected a New Jersey pianist 9 years ago young though Kim from Palisades Park came on the show and at the age of 14 absolutely slayed one of the flashiest and most virtuous of pieces by Franz Liszt like company from lists 6 Paganini etudes But before we leap into that I want to thank all the young performers on today's show and I want to thank you for listening this is Peter Doogue And please join from the top next week and now here's young Kim. The poor. The poor own. Poor. The new. The During. The early. 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