One thing relatively astonishing happens when children take over the Tiny Desk. Our very way forward for music-making is on show.
Over time, we’ve got invited a few of the brightest younger musicians within the nation to play the Desk. They’re alums of the group From the Prime, which over the previous 25 years has offered a platform of radio broadcasts, on-line performances and fellowships to assist younger, enthusiastic gamers.
At solely 17 years outdated, the Eugene, Ore., native Maria Telesheva is already an accordion wizard. I’ve hassle merely pushing the appropriate button in an elevator. So watching Telesheva’s fingers fly gracefully over greater than 200 buttons on her bayan, because the instrument is named in Russia, is a thrill. She makes the tightly braided voices in J.S. Bach’s thicket of counterpoint sing and dance.
9-year-old Alexander Zhou is a mega-watt entertainer with a profitable smile and approach far past his age. Based mostly in New York, the place he attends a particular music faculty, he is already gained a half-dozen worldwide competitions. I am unsure, along with his small palms, simply how he will get to the deluge of notes within the Moszkowski show-stopper. He’ll should be taught utterly new fingerings as he grows. He describes the music as having “mild, crispy notes and in addition a superb, very mysterious vibe.”
The assured, 18-year-old Henry Drangel from Queens is a freshman on the Curtis Institute. To listen to the candy, pinging sound of a newly minted tenor voice is particularly satisfying in an age when opera geeks are involved concerning the state of vocal schooling. Drangel’s breath management, his sense of the singing Italian line and the sunshine in his voice ought to take him far. His adroit accompanist, Adam Jackson, is learning for his grasp’s diploma at Juilliard.
If these three artists gathered right here symbolize the way forward for classical music, then that future is shining brightly certainly.
SET LIST
- Johann Sebastian Bach: J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in C minor (Properly-Tempered Clavier, Guide 1)
- Moritz Moszkowski: Étincelles, Op. 36, No. 6 (“Sparks”)
- Gaetano Donizetti: “Quanto è bella” (from L’elisir d’amore)
MUSICIANS
- Maria Telesheva: accordion
- Alexander Zhou: piano
- Henry Drangel: vocals
- Adam Jackson: pianoÂ
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Tom Huizenga
- Director/Editor: Kara Body
- Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Kara Body, Joshua Bryant
- Audio Engineer: Josh Newell
- Manufacturing Assistant: Dhanika Pineda
- Photographer: Sofia Seidel
- Tiny Desk Workforce: Maia Stern, Ashley Pointer
- Sequence Editor: Lars Gotrich
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Govt Director: Sonali Mehta
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton
