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On Friday March 27, From the Top was featured during the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) National Arts Council Meeting. From the Top CEO Jerry Slavet remarked that it was an exciting opportunity to speak with the NEA leadership body about From the Top’s public broadcasts, education outreach, and scholarship program. “The early vote [...]
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This Friday, our venerable host launches a new and innovative concert series at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre. Chris’ three-part recital series will bring him back to the stage where he performed his groundbreaking Radiohead Transcriptions in 2002. The new series entitled 2+2=5 draws connections between the music of Radiohead, Nick Drake and Elliott Smith with [...]
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On Sunday, March 15, From the Top teamed up with Music Director JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra for a live concert and taping of our radio show. The collaboration was exciting in many ways. Not only did it give our performers an opportunity to solo with a first class orchestra, it provided a [...]
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By Caeli Smith, Roving Reporter Hi everyone! One of my all-time favorite quotes comes from the other side of the globe. In the words of Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali mystic, “Music fills the infinite between two souls.” A person who lives half the world away can seem infinitely far from you, but music brings people [...]
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By David Balsom, Tour Producer As From the Top’s tour producer, my job is to bring From the Top to communities across the United States. This means I get to work with some of the best concert halls and performing arts venues in the country, from Carnegie Hall to the Houston Grand Opera, to Zellerbach [...]
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18-year-old cellist Patrick McGuire, a From the Top alum and current student at The Juilliard School, is co-organizing an arts outreach trip to Tanzania in May called the Arusha Arts Initiative. The group will be traveling to the Umoja Youth Empowerment Center in the city of Arusha to help strengthen community-building and leadership skills in [...]
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Portland’s KGW Channel 8 News recently featured a segment about From the Top alum and violist Griffin Gaffney’s free lesson program. Click here to check it out! Share this:
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Dr. Karl Paulnack, pianist and director of music division at The Boston Conservatory, gave this fantastic welcome address to the parents of incoming students at The Boston Conservatory on September 1, 2004: “One of my parents’ deepest fears, I suspect, is that society would not properly value me as a musician, that I wouldn’t be [...]
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A silly question. But, yesterday, From the Top’s upcoming taping in Buffalo with the Buffalo Philharmonic was featured in the Buffalo News, and the writer Mary Kunz Goldman later blogged about her experience interviewing Christopher O’Riley and mentioned this very blog! It seems this cycle could go round and round! In other news, our venerable [...]
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