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From the Top’s first recording collaboration with Telarc and Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops, From the Top at the Pops, was officially released last Tuesday. The album has already received kudos from a number of critics and bloggers. On Tuesday, September 8, From the Top and the Pops will throw a New York coming [...]
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We are pleased to announce that From the Top at Carnegie Hall received two Emmy Awards at this weekend’s Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Ceremony. The awards were for: Outstanding Children’s Series and Achievement in Multiple Camera Editing. Congratulations to the entire production team including: From the Top, Don Mischer Productions, WGBH and our partner Carnegie [...]
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This week Secretary of Education Arne Duncan engaged in a public conference call on the subject of arts education with more 2,000 educators, advocates, leaders, and concerned citizens. Our Education Program Manager Jenny Meyburg joined in on the discussion. Keep reading to learn more about what was discussed on the call:
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Johann Sebastian Bach’s biggest fan is quite possibly a thirteen-year-old girl from Palo Alto, CA. But pianist Hilda Huang is way beyond most thirteen-year-olds. For starters, she wowed a national audience with her music, (and her Bach obsession), two years ago on the PBS series From the Top at Carnegie Hall, and did it all [...]
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Classical music blogs are all a-Twitter with news of the Royal Opera House’s plan to create the world’s first Twitter Opera. The concept is that anyone who has a Twitter account can contribute, 140 characters at a time, to the opera’s lyrics. They will then be set to original music and performed next month. Aisle [...]
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In 2008, pianist Nicholas King was a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist on From the Top’s radio show. At the time, he was already an impressive example of Arts Leadership: when he was as young as seven years old, he began to raise money for Children’s Hospital in LA. After years of helping and inspiring [...]
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Now is a great time to be Caroline Goulding. Never mind that Caroline has been on From the Top’s radio show three times and played with Bela Fleck on the PBS TV series From the Top at Carnegie Hall. Or that at 16, she’s already performed with more than nine orchestras. Or that she plays [...]
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Television host Rachel Maddow was recently at Jacob’s Pillow talking about the importance of the arts in our country. “A country without an expectation of minimal artistic literacy, without a basic structure by which the artists among us can be awakened and given the choice of following their talents and a way to get to [...]
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The Davidson Institute announced their Fellows yesterday and we spotted From the Top alumni in each division. Congratulations go to: Melody Lindsay, 17, harpist from Honolulu, Hawaii; Sarina Zhang, 13, cellist and pianist from San Diego, CA; and Connie Kim-Sheng, 17 of La Crescenta, CA for receiving scholarships and to Simone Porter, of Seattle, WA [...]
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Way back in 2006, pianist Ji-Yong appeared on From the Top’s radio show at the age of 14. But even then, the pressure of a performance on national radio was nothing new to him. Ji-Yong was signed to a major artist management company at a tender 10 years old, and he’s been playing professionally ever [...]
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