From the Top: a Mozart Festival Weekend

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It’s From the Top’s third visit to Troy’s historic music venue.
Troy, NY — From the Top, the hit public radio program that showcases the performances and stories of America’s best young classical musicians, is returning to the Capital Region to record a show before a live audience at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on Saturday, February 18 at 8 p.m. It’s From the Top’s third visit to Troy’s historic music venue. Previous visits include 2002 and 2003 with special guest Peter Schickele. This February’s program, being recorded for broadcast later this year on nearly 250 radio stations coast-to-coast, features talented young musicians from around the country ranging in age from 9-18. From the Top can be heard every Saturday at 5pm on WMHT-FM 89.1FM. This episode is scheduled to air May 7, 2006. Hosted by internationally renowned pianist Christopher O’Riley, From the Top ranks among the top five weekly programs on radio along with long term notables Car Talk and A Prairie Home Companion. “From the Top gives young musicians the stage but lets them act their age. It’s serious music but classically kids” said the The New York Times. NBC’s “Today” described the program as “Exquisite musical performances, punctuated with off-beat interviews and campy skits. This is classy reality programming. And you don’t have to love classical music to love From the Top.” This year’s From the Top performance, sponsored by Stewart’s Shops, E. Stewart Jones, Jr. and WMHT is titled “A Mozart Celebration.” The program on February 18 will be a celebration of Mozart in true From the Top style. Repertoire will include 12 year-old pianist Leeza Ali, from Mendota Heights, MN, performing the Sonata in F major, K.332, III. Allegro assai; Jonathan Cohen, a 17 year old junior at the Interlochen Arts Academy from Evanston, IL playing the Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622, I. Allegro. Violist Kallie Ciechomski, 17, from Portland, Maine will play a work by Mozart's student Johann Hummel. Jonathan and Kallie will join host Christopher O'Riley for a performance of Mozart's Clarinet Trio in E-flat major, K.498, "Kegelstatt", III. Rondo: Allegretto. 13 year-old composer Jeremiah Klarman will present his Duet No.1 in C Major for 2 Violins, played by Boston area violinists Adam Chin and Calvin Kuo. The work, in the classical style will reflect the fact that Mozart himself began writing music at a very young age. The live taping of From the Top is open to the public. Tickets are $31 & $28 for adults and $20 for students and children (age 7 and up, please) and may be purchased by calling the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Box Office at (518) 273-0038 or online at www.troymusichall.org. The Music Hall Box Office opens 90 minutes prior to the performance. Otherwise, Box Office operations are handled at its business office at 30 Second Street, Monday through Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall’s full season schedule can be viewed at www.troymusichall.org. The Magic of Mozart Festival Weekend also includes: February 14: Music at Noon Concert: Tania Halko-Susi, viola & Victoria von Arx, piano explore the Music of Young Mozart, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall (free) February 16: Mozartian Musings: The College Consortium Choir at Russell Sage College along with Barbara & Michael Musial, Duo Piano perform Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Duo Piano Concerto in E Flat Major and selected opera arias, Bush Memorial Hall, 8 pm February 17: Mozart’s 250th Birthday Bash, an all-Mozart concert by Albany Symphony Orchestra featuring Symphony 41 “Jupiter”, Clarinet Concerto featuring Susan Martula and Piano Concerto No. 19 with Frederic Lacroix on the Forepiano, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, 8 pm February 19: Mozart: The Sesquibicentennial Program featuring New York Philomusica with Robert Levin, piano and Andrew Clark, horn. The program surveys popular Mozart masterworks and a few rarely heard pieces including one resurrected by pianist-scholar Levin, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, 4 pm All tickets available through the Music Hall Box Office, 518-273-0038 or www.troymusichall.org. Buy a festival pass and save 20% off the regular ticket price. From the Top is made possible through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism. From the Top radio program is produced in association with WGBH Radio Boston and New England Conservatory of Music, its home and education partner and is distributed by National Public Radio. The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, named a National Historic Landmark in 1989, is in use over one hundred and fifty days a year. Since it opened its doors in 1875, the Hall has hosted performances by numerous world-renowned artists including Marion Anderson, Dizzy Gillespie, Peter Seeger, Ella Fitzgerald, Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, Henri Vieuxtemps, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jose Iturbi, Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin, and Artur Rubenstein, among many others.
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Lanesborough Fifth-Graders Win Snowplow Name Contest

LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — One of the snowplows for Highway District 1 has a new name: "The Blizzard Boss."
 
The name comes from teacher Gina Wagner's fifth-grade class at Lanesborough Elementary School. 
 
The state Department of Transportation announced the winners of the fourth annual "Name A Snowplow" contest on Monday. 
 
The department received entries from public elementary and middle school classrooms across the commonwealth to name the 12 MassDOT snowplows that will be in service during the 2025/2026 winter season. 
 
The purpose of the contest is to celebrate the snow and ice season and to recognize the hard work and dedication shown by public works employees and contractors during winter operations. 
 
"Thank you to all of the students who participated. Your creativity allows us to highlight to all, the importance of the work performed by our workforce," said  interim MassDOT Secretary Phil Eng.  
 
"Our workforce takes pride as they clear snow and ice, keeping our roads safe during adverse weather events for all that need to travel. ?To our contest winners and participants, know that you have added some fun to the serious take of operating plows. ?I'm proud of the skill and dedication from our crews and thank the public of the shared responsibility to slow down, give plows space and put safety first every time there is a winter weather event."
 
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