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DoSomething.org has done it again! They are teaming up with Vh1 Save the Music and giving students an exciting opportunity to bring music back to their schools! Sign up for their Save Our Music Campaign to get ideas on how to become a music advocate and win the grand prize of $2500 for your school! [...]
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17-year-old cellist, Khari Joyner, from Atlanta, GA, is passionate about music’s power to heal. During his interview on From the Top’s live taping in El Paso, TX (airing the week of October 19), Khari spoke about his experience overcoming lymphoma cancer last year and how music and the power of positive thinking helped get him [...]
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Last year 17-year-old flutist Chaz Salazar performed on From the Top’s Mesa, AZ taping in November as a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award recipient. These days, Chaz is involved in several projects, including leading flute sectionals and giving private lessons to a few students at his old elementary school in Phoenix, AZ. As a [...]
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This just in… an exclusive interview with Christopher O’Riley is now on the Chopin Society of Atlanta’s web site. Get the inside scoop from our host. If you are in New York this weekend, be sure to check out From the Top alum Anna Lee performing with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony. Fellow alums Sirena [...]
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Interested in starting your own community project? Check out DoSomething.org ‘s Social Action Bootcamp where you’ll learn tons of valuable skills like building a website for $10, writing a business plan and online fundraising. On Saturday September 26th from 9am-5pm, Do Something will be streaming LIVE! from our Boston Social Action Boot Camp into your [...]
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About two hundred years ago, the great Italian virtuoso Niccolo Paganini wrote 24 Caprices for Solo Violin. Ever since, they have been considered the hardest pieces written for the instrument. From the Top alum William Harvey is going to learn and perform all 24. Why? You ask. He’s doing it as a fundraiser for his [...]
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-Kathryn J Bacasmot Living on the East Coast for the past five years has given me plenty of practice in verbally defending my home state, Nebraska. I have honestly grown to relish the laundry list of questions, the looks of disbelief, and the subsequent thinly veiled attempts to recover and come off sounding politely intrigued: [...]
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From the Top alum George Li, who wowed audiences on the first season of From the Top at Carnegie Hall and charmed Martha Stewart on her show, recently returned to his hometown of Boston from a concert tour of Sweden. The 14-year-old pianist performed in three Swedish cities with the Nordic Chamber Orchestra, under the [...]
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The Music Center Spotlight Awards are inviting applicants from young performing and visual artists in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Diego counties in California. Learn more: http://www.musiccenter.org/education/spot_index.html
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