Poster Gabriel Cabezas
Gabriel Cabezas, winner of the 2012 Sphinx Competition
Glenn Triest
Performance Today®

Cellist Gabriel Cabezas

Hispanic Heritage Month is getting underway and we're celebrating the musical side here at PT. On the weekend edition of Performance Today, cellist Gabriel Cabezas joins us to talk about visibility, music, and his musical hero.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Antonin Dvorak: Nocturne for String Orchestra, Op. 40
Emerson String Quartet
Music from Saint Paul Sunday
MPR 203

Gioachino Rossini: Overture to Il barbiere di Siviglia ('The Barber of Seville')
Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Nashville Symphony, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, TN

Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Alex Strong from Bloomington, IN

Antonin Dvorak: String Sextet in A Major, Op. 48
Ani Kavafian, violin; Erin Keefe, violin; Yura Lee, violin; Matthew Lipman, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello; David Finkel, cello
University of Georgia, Hodgson Concert Hall, Athens, GA

Hour 2

Thomspson: Symphony No. 1; Gould: Fall River Suite: Fall River Legend: Hymnal Variations
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; James Sedares, conductor
Koch
7181

Franz Schubert: Die Nacht
The King's Singers
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, Athens, GA

Morton Gould: Stringmusic
Oregon Symphony; Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Oregon Symphony, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR

Son Lux: I Woke Up in the Forest
yMusic
First
Communal Table Records NA

Son Lux: Bows
yMusic
First
Communal Table Records NA

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