Season 2: Episode 8 - Star Quality
This week, renowned violinist Gil Shaham appears on From the Top at Carnegie Hall joined by 10-year old violinist and Red Sox fan Alice Ivy-Pemberton from New York City for a performance of the third movement Allegro from Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043. Alice, who frequents Lincoln Center’s violin shop and spends a great deal of time at Columbia University where her parents are professors, also performs the first movement Prima Parte (Lassu) from Bartók’s Rhapsody No. 1 (Folk Dances) for Violin and Piano accompanied by Host Christopher O’Riley. Also featured on this episode is 17-year old pianist Ji-Yong Kim from Midland Park, New Jersey who performs Robert Schumann’s Widmung (arr. Liszt), and explains what it’s like to be a normal high school student and a classical pianist with professional management!
Performer Bios
Ji-Yong Kim
Ji-Yong Kim (piano), 17, from Midland Park, New Jersey, is a junior at Midland Park High School and studies at the Juilliard Pre-College Division in New York, New York.
Alice Ivy-Pemberton
Alice Ivy-Pemberton (violin), 10, studies with Nurit Pacht at the Lucy Moses School in New York, New York.
Educational Resources
Episode 8: It's a Song
In this activity, students will compare the human voice and the piano and experiment with adapting songs written for the voice for different instruments.
Episode 8: Folk Meets Classical
In this activity, students will compare classical music and folk music and explore the differences between consonant and dissonant sounds.
