Twenty-eight year-old American violinist William Harvey is halfway through a year-long appointment teaching violin and viola at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul. He spoke with PT host Fred Child before he left, and again recently on the phone from Afghanistan. Harvey says he not only feels "very safe" in Kabul, he's having an incredible time sharing the Western tradition with young Afghan musicians, and learning Afghan music from them.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Johann Sebastian Bach: Third movement from Keyboard Concerto No. 6 in F, BWV 1057
Murray Perahia, piano and conductor, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Domenico Scarlatti: Four Keyboard Sonatas
Yuja Wang, piano
Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzingen, Germany
Pablo Ziegler: Milonga del Adios
Pablo Ziegler, piano, Jisoo Ok, cello
Beaches Fine Arts Series, Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049
Tempesta di Mare
Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati Quorum Via
Choir of Clare College, Tim Brown, director
Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Paul
Healey Willan: Rise up, my Love, my Fair One
Choir of Clare College, Tim Brown, director
Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Paul
Leos Janacek: The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away, from On the Overgrown Path, Book I, JW VIII/17
Geert Bierling, harmonium, the Calefax Reed Quintet
De Doelen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Hour 2
Robert Schumann: Fantasy Piece for Clarinet and Piano No. 3, Op. 73
Todd Levy, clarinet, Elena Abend, piano
Richard Strauss: Burleske in D Minor
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, William Eddins, conductor
Winspear Centre for Music, Edmonton, Alberta
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto No. 11 in D, from La Stravanganza, Op. 4
Andres Cardenes, violin and conductor, the Strings Festival Orchestra
Strings Music Festival, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Robert Schumann: Three Romances for Oboe and Piano, Op. 94
Liang Wang, oboe, Keun-A Lee, piano
Kosciuszko Foundation, New York City
Transformations: William Harvey in Afghanistan
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