On today’s encore broadcast from 2010, we feature 16 year old cellist Allan Steele and 18 year old cellist Ben Friend in two very different performances. Steele was an Overall Open Division Winner of the Walgreens National Concerto Competition and won the opportunity to perform with the Midwest Young Artists Symphony Orchestra. Ben Fried, a longtime member of the Maxwell Street Junior Klezmer Ensemble, recorded for us a special piece called “Klezmer Rhapsody,” a sort of classical klezmer work featuring cello, with the professional Maxwell Street Klezmer Band. The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band is currently performing in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s newly-commissioned opera “The Property” at the Logan Center at the University of Chicago and at the Skokie Center for the Performing Arts.
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