From The Top at Oberlin, With Guest Bobby McFerrin, to Air in Northeast Ohio Sunday, April 20, on WCLV by Marci Janas '91
	Related Links: • From the Top • WCLV-FM, 104.9 FM • Conservatory to Host From the Top with Special Guest Bobby McFerrin January 28 Bobby McFerrin Photo Collection		For anyone not among the more than 1,000 enthusiastic classical music lovers in Finney Chapel the night of January 28, when From the Top, with special guest Bobby McFerrin, taped one of its popular radio programs, don't worry--From the Top begins its national feed to more than 250 radio stations on April 7; listeners should check their local radio listings for the date and time when the Oberlin program is broadcast in their area. In northeast Ohio, the show will air Sunday, April 20, at 6 p.m. on WCLV, 104.9 FM. WCLV, Cleveland's classical music radio station. The station will replay the show Saturday, April 26, at 6 p.m., and Saturday, May 3, at 9 p.m. The program can also be heard on the Internet at wclv.com. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music sponsored From the Top's first Northeast Ohio appearance. Nearly 250 radio stations throughout the United States broadcast From the Top, which is hosted by acclaimed concert pianist Christopher O'Riley, and which has been called "the best thing to happen to classical music since Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts." A complete list of stations that carry From the Top can be found on its web site. From the Top features the stories and performances of young, pre-collegiate musicians. Among the performers showcased on the Oberlin program are members of a wind nonet from the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra: Allison Green, age 16, a flutist from Strongsville; oboists Jeff Kish of Mentor and David Kulma of Lakewood, both 17; clarinetists Mara Mayer, 17, from University Heights and Erika Cikraji, 16, of Bay Village; bassoonists Katie Brooks, 16, of Pepper Pike and Katie Pletka, 17, from Parma; and horn players Savas Altuntas, 19, from Sheffield Lake and Sarah Greenlee, 17, of Shaker Heights. The ensemble performed Charles Fran¡ois Gounod's Petite Symphonie. With Bobby McFerrin, the Geno String Quartet Ç string players from the Juilliard School of Music's Pre-College Ç soprano Alyssa Jordheim, 16, from Appleton, Wisconsin, and O'Riley at the piano, they also presented a stunning arrangement of Faur»'s Pavane, conducted by Oberlin Conservatory of Music composition and music theory major John Levey. McFerrin joined cellist Jessica Constant, 16, in BarriÀre's Sonata for Two Cellos Ç his voice approximating the second cello Ç and he accompanied Jordheim in Bach's Ave Maria. The program also featured the Geno String Quartet performing the first movement of Dvor…k's American Quartet, Op. 96, and Jordheim singing Weber's "Einst Traumte Meiner Sel'gen Base," accompanied on the piano by O'Riley. Interspersed amidst the high seriousness of the music was comedy; the show's trademark kibitzing and skits, where the young musicians have a chance to display their less-recognized talents, and of course, McFerrin, who buttonholed O'Riley into performing an improvised-on-the-fly piece for four hands (but with only one piano).
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