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From the Top Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Clifton Williams will appear on this week’s national broadcast of From the Top on NPR and is featured in today’s Washington Post. Clifton, a 17-year-old pianist from Washington, DC is among the 100 recipients who have received a $10,000 award through a partnership between From the Top [...]
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“I think a lot about how, as a classical violinist, I spend so much of my energy honing my skills in a very narrow discipline. I want to find ways to use my skills to help make the world a better place.” — Caeli Smith This Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 10 from 3-5 pm in [...]
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We recently posted about 18-year-old cellist and From the Top alum Patrick McGuire and his arts outreach trip to Arusha, Tanzania. Since then, his group has made some great progress towards their goal with a grant from Julliard. Patrick sent us the following update: Hi everyone! It’s been awhile since we sent a Facebook update, [...]
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This month’s issue of Strings Magazine highlights emerging soloists. The magazine profiles 26-year-old violinist William Harvey who appeared on one of From the Top‘s first episodes. William will return to Boston May 3 to record a new broadcast of our show. His appearance will launch our 10th anniversary celebration, in which we will look back [...]
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“Concert music doesn’t have to be presented like it’s in a museum,” says 20-year-old composer Stephen Feigenbaum in an article in the Yale Daily News. “This is exactly the opposite. We want a show that can be like a rock concert, something where people can get genuinely engaged, especially young people … This music doesn’t [...]
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From the Top alumni, Rainer Crosett, a 16-year-old cellist from Andover, MA and Julia Glenn, a 19-year-old violinist currently studying at Harvard University, visited the Whelan Elementary School in Revere, MA on April 15, where they performed for the entire 3rd grade in the school library. Rainer and Julia talked about their instruments, had the [...]
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Like many, we were moved by the story in the New York Times last week about Newark, Ohio senior Tiffany Clay. We’ve heard that the Newark and surrounding communities have come together to raise funds to help Tiffany continue her music and academic studies and to support the efforts of the Newark High School Orchestra. [...]
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On April 8th, 2009, 20-year-old Sebastian Baverstam visited the Epiphany School in Dorchester, MA to lead a morning assembly for 6th-8th grade students. Sebastian, a cellist currently in his sophomore year at New England Conservatory, first appeared on From the Top at age 10 and continues to stay involved with From the Top through our [...]
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This month, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and a dozen Chicago-based music education organizations launched a new initiative to encourage youth engagement in music with the “Chicago Festival of Youth in Music.” Percussionist and From the Top alum Joshua Jones (pictured) was among the hundreds of participants. He writes: “I had the privilege of performing in [...]
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Caeli Smith reports on the upcoming YouTube Symphony event on April 12-15 at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Learn more about the project on Caeli’s vlog. Share this:
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