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Valley Edition for November 5, 2021

On this week’s Valley Edition: Two local WWII vets travel to Hawaii to remember Pearl Harbor on its 80th anniversary. Listen to this and more.

On this week’s Valley Edition: Fresno State students are blending music and history in a concert featuring violins that survived the holocaust. Listen to this and more.

On this week’s Valley Edition: After a year of immense loss in their farmworker community, Catholic Latinos in Firebaugh celebrate the Lady of Guadalupe.

A string quartet from Fresno performs music of Felix Mendelssohn and Aleksandr Glazunov. They are Atom Paz (violin), Rajbir Longia (violin), Eve Nelson (viola), and Elena White (cello). Their coach is Lianna Elmore.

A string quartet from Bakersfield performs music of Bach, Handel, Hasse, and Handel, plus guitar music by Mozzani. They are Sanjna Mizar (violin), Rafael Marinas (violin, guitar); Ollie Erickson (viola), and Aden Park (cello).

Violinist Xavion is a student at University High School in Fresno. He performs music of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Henri Casadesus, and Vittorio Monti.

This episode features a piano quartet from Fresno State, performing music by Joaquin Turina and Ernst Dohnanyi. They are Jackson Snead (violin), Melissa McGlumphy (viola), Emma Hill (cello), and Alina Xiong (piano).

In this episode, we present participants in Fresno State's 6th Annual Art Song Festival

This episode features the Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra (BYSO), from a concert recorded June 11, 2022 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Fresno, and also pays homage to trumpeter Daniel Edwards, a former member of the BYSO and a past performer on Young Artists Spotlight, who died tragically from COVID in March 2021. We’ll hear Daniel Edwards’ appearance on YAS from March 2009. A centerpiece of the BYSO performance is the world premier of a work commissioned in honor of Daniel Edwards, composed by retired CSUB professor Doug Davis.