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Weekend of June 9, 2012
Vanessa Perez
Loving parents usually try to steer their children away from making the same mistakes they did. Thankfully, children don't always listen. Vanessa Perez's mother was a pianist who suffered from terrible stage fright, who thought that the life of a musician was just too hard. So when Vanessa asked for piano lessons, her mother said no. Eventually, she gave in, and Vanessa is now enjoying the life of a concert artist that had eluded her mother. We'll meet Vanessa Perez in today's show.
Today's Playlist
Performance Today audio is available for seven days following broadcast.
hour 1
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Bela Bartok
Fourth movement from Concerto for Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
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Tomas Breton
Prelude from La Verbena de la Paloma
Los Romeros
92nd Street Y, New York City
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Jeremy Cavaterra
Fantasy on Arturo Marquez's Danzon No. 2
The Salastina Music Society
Colburn School of Music, Los Angeles
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The Piano Puzzler
This week's contestant is Jay Williams from Marietta, Georgia
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Bela Bartok
Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs, BB 79, Sz. 71
The Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer, conductor
Carnegie Hall, New York City
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Sergei Prokofiev
Finale from Symphony No. 1 in D, Op. 25
The Orchestra of St. Luke's, Ivan Fischer, conductor
DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City
hour 2
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Frederic Chopin
Preludes No. 9 in E and No. 13 in F-sharp, Op. 28
Vanessa Perez, piano
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Gigue from Solo Violin Partita No. 3 in E, BWV 1006
Hilary Hahn, violin
Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
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George Frideric Handel
Aria, Laschia ch'io Pianga (Let me Weep)
Albrecht Mayer, oboe, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New York City
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Perfchat with Vanessa Perez
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Isaac Albeniz
Granada, from Suite Espagnole
Vanessa Perez, piano
NPR Studio 4A, Washington, D.C.
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Heitor Villa-Lobos
Excerpts from Prole do Bebe No. 1 (The Family of Baby Dolls)
Vanessa Perez, piano
NPR Studio 4A, Washington, D.C.
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Frederic Chopin
Four Preludes, Op. 28
Vanessa Perez, piano
NPR Studio 4A, Washington, D.C.
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Anatol Liadov
Baba Yaga, Op. 56
The Houston Symphony Orchestra, Hans Graf, conductor
Spring For Music, New York City
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Leonard Bernstein
Mambo from West Side Story
The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, William Eddins, conductor
Spring For Music, New York City
