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This summer, two traveling alumni dropped by the From the Top headquarters in Boston to say hello, and found themselves giving an impromptu concert. Ross Mintzer (Show #125), saxophonist and guitarist, and Mike Thurber (Show #s 125 & 142) , double bassist, were on their way to Vermont to play a show as dynamic duo [...]
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A great experience for D.C. Youth Orchestra members to play with a master conductor as reported in the Washington Post.
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Sheila P. of Winchester, MA, who attended the Boston October 4 live radio taping, and Rosie S. of Provo, UT, who attended the Salt Lake City October 9 live radio taping, have been selected as the winners of From the Top CD packs. Congratulations! For your chance to win a CD pack of your very [...]
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From the Top’s radio broadcast this week, taped at the El Paso Summer Music Festival this past June, celebrates our partnership with the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and more than $1 million in scholarships awarded. The radio episode features five new Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award recipients and offers updates from past Young Artists [...]
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In early October, From the Top traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah to tape a radio broadcast at Libby Gardner Hall with Utah Chamber Artists. While we were there, From the Top had the opportunity to visit the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah and introduce students to 16-year-old violinist Will Hagen, a From the Top [...]
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Sixteen-year-old pianist and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award recipient Jingxuan Zhang feels strongly about advocating for elementary music education. Jing is featured on From the Top’s broadcast from El Paso this week and recently wrote a letter to his governor in Indiana to address his feelings about the importance of arts education. “I want [...]
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If you are a From the Top alum with news to share, send us a message at enewsletter@fromthetop.org! Clifton Williams (Show #195), a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist from Washington, D.C. captured the hearts of millions of listeners with his moving story on our radio show last spring. Clifton’s appearance on From the Top also [...]
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For those of you who are fans of Alex Ross’ “The Rest is Noise” blog, we thought we’d point out that he’s moved his daily blog to the New Yorker’s website, check out “Unquiet Thoughts” here. Commuting is now a musical experience in Stockholm, Sweden where they turned a subway stairway into a piano keyboard [...]
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This past spring Allen Yu, seventeen-year-old pianist from Cohoes, NY and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award recipient, performed for all of the fourth grade students in his school district! Even more exciting, he enlisted the help of his From the Top friends from his radio taping in Northfield, MA! With the help of seventeen-year-old [...]
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