Soundcheck

WNYC Young People's Radio Choir with Soundcheck's John Schaefer, WNYC President and CEO Laura Walker and conductor Francisco Nunez (WNYC)

OK Chorales

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

The WNYC Young People's Radio Chorus, led by artistic director Francisco Núñez, make a return visit to perform Rob Kapilow’s "In Just Spring," a setting of an e.e. cummings poem, and the world premiere of "Proverb," a piano/choral version of the first movement of Kapilow's "'03: This New Immense Unbounded World," the symphony he wrote to commemorate the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase. Also: In recent years, China has produced a growing number of classical music's biggest talents. Among them is Xian Zhang, the New York Philharmonic's assistant conductor. She stops by to share her story, which began in Dandong, China, and continued at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She also previews her upcoming concerts with the Philharmonic.

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