Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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Sunday, February 07, 2010

From Sinclair Auditorium at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, this week's From the Top includes a teenage string quartet from the Chicago area playing Shostakovich, an 18-year-old bass from nearby Cedar Falls singing Handel, and a nationally renowned teenage mandolin player 17-year-old Solly Burton is a nationally recognized mandolin player who relishes life on his family's farm in Sullivan, Indiana.

Czardas
by Vittorio Monti
Solly Burton, mandolin; Joel Whittinghill, guitar

Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73
by Dmitri Shostakovich
Aurella String Quartet (Susie Koh, violin; Laura Park, violin; Arianna Smith, viola; Allan Steele, cello)

Impromptu-Caprice
by Gabriel Pierné
Katherine Siochi, harp

"Honor and Arms" from Samson
by George Frideric Handel,
Rhys Lloyd Talbot, voice; Christopher O'Riley, piano

Elegy, Op. 24
by Gabriel Fauré
Hyewon Kim, cello; Christopher O'Riley, piano