Kelly Hall-Tompkins trained as a classical violinist. For two decades, her career focused on classical music. Then she spent a year on Broadway as the fiddler in Fiddler on the Roof. The experience re-energized her, and changed her life. Kelly Hall-Tompkins joins us, on the this episode of Performance Today.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Christos Hatzis: String Quartet No 1 Movement 4
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Awakening
EMI Classics 5 58038 2
Antonin Dvorak: Carnival Overture, Op. 92
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra; Yu An Chang, conductor
Tanglewood, Ozawa Hall, Lenox, MA
Piano Puzzler: This week's contestants are Paul & Christine Hanna from Tallahassee, FL
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K 414
Pedja Muzijevic, piano; St. Lawrence String Quartet with Doug Balliett, double bass
Spoleto Festival USA, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC
Hour 2
Jerry Bock (arr. Ted Sperling and Oran Eldor, developed with Kelly Hall-Tompkins): Wedding Dance
Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin; Stephen Benson, guitar; Joshua Camp, accordion; Michael Blanco, bass
The Fiddler Expanding Tradition
Broadway Records 09217
Eugene Ysaye: Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin in E Major, Op. 27 No. 6
Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin
Imagination
Classical Impressions 888295039178
Jerry Bock (arr. Oran Eldor, developed with Kelly Hall-Tompkins):: Fiddler Rhapsody and Scherzo from Fiddler on the Roof
Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin; Stephen Benson, mandolin; Jim Hershorn, guitar; Joshua Camp, accordion; Michael Blanco, bass
The Fiddler Expanding Tradition
Broadway Records 09217
Jerry Bock (arr. Oran Eldor, developed with Kelly Hall-Tompkins): Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof
Danny Burstein, vocals; Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin; Stephen Benson, guitar; Joshua Camp, accordion; Michael Blanco, bass
The Fiddler Expanding Tradition
Broadway Records 09217
Jerry Bock (arr. Ted Sperling and Oran Eldor, developed with Kelly Hall-Tompkins): Chavaleh from Fiddler on the Roof
Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin; Stephen Benson, guitar; Joshua Camp, accordion; Michael Blanco, bass
The Fiddler Expanding Tradition
Broadway Records 09217
Jerry Bock (arr. Kelly Hall-Tompkins): If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof
Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin
The Fiddler Expanding Tradition
Broadway Records 09217
Steve Sandberg: Thank You (excerpt)
Jesse Blumberg, baritone; Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin 1; Ling Ling Huang, violin 2; Andrew Gonzalez, viola; Peter Seidenberg, cello
Music Kitchen
Josef Suk: Liebeslied, Op. 7
Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin; Craig Ketter, piano
In My Own Voice
MSR Classics 1278
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