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Piano teacher Adrienne McKinney of Lexington, KY posted a comment to Greg Sandow’s blog that has generated some great ideas about how to bridge the gap between classical and not-classical music – inviting music students to bring in their favorite tunes for reworking or improvisation, giving them the vocabulary to communicate about what music means [...]
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As promised, here are some more behind the scenes videos taken during our March 29 radio taping at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston. The house was completely packed, including many students from the Boston area and even one group all the way from Pittsfield, MA. The broadcast airs nationally the week of April [...]
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An interesting article from England about the state of music education appeared in The Guardian last week. How are schools in your part of the world promoting music education? What can we do better? At From the Top, we have been working in three Boston Public Schools for the past two years through a generous [...]
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We shot the following videos with our handy Flip cam backstage at our recent radio taping in Buffalo, NY at Kleinhans Music Hall. 16-year-old violinist William Hagen and 18-year-old violist Matthew Vera show us both the serious and silly sides of From the Top performers. The broadcast will air nationally the week of April 13th. [...]
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We are always thrilled to hear from our past performers, and here is another round of news from the many From the Top alumni living all over the country. Kevin Olusola writes, “I’m currently a junior at Yale University, East Asian Studies Major and Pre-Med. In Summer 2007, I was on a trip with 100 [...]
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