Beautiful Music NOW - ESTRELLITA
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Beautiful Music NOW - ESTRELLITA

Michael J. Lutch
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courtesy of the artist

Today's Beautiful Music is a tender performance of ESTRELLITA (little star) by Manuel Ponce. Originally a song, this is an arrangement for violin and piano by Jascha Heifetz, who often played it as an encore piece at his concerts. This 2019 performance features a pair of young performers -- violinist Nathan Meltzer and pianist Jessica Xylina Osborne -- at the Longy School of Music of Bard College.

Suzanne Bona is the host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a nationally syndicated weekly radio show of Baroque and early music which she originated on WSHU in 1987.