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Hi everybody! I just got back from Salt Lake City, Utah, where we had a blast taping an episode of the radio show. As usual, the show featured an amazing array of talent. One of the standouts for me was ten-year-old trumpet player Natalie Dungey. She is by far the youngest trumpet player we’ve ever [...]
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Get involved in National Arts and Humanities Month! Here are three things you can do right now: Go to the American for the Arts “Arts Action Center” to tell your senators and representatives to support a funding increase for the National Endowment of the Arts (it takes two minutes!). Click on the National Arts and [...]
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17-year-old violinist Caeli Smith, From the Top alum and Roving Reporter, has produced a very fun look behind the scenes at From the Top’s 200th radio show taping at the Heifetz International Music Institute in Wolfeboro, NH this past July. Be sure to tune in to the broadcast on stations this week (and online at [...]
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Hi everyone, and welcome to the latest edition of my travel blog. Sunday’s From the Top taping took place at our home base, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, which, for those not from the area, happens to be located directly across the street from our office. So travel was particularly non-eventful. The taping, however, was [...]
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Congratulations to violinist Mindy Chen, who appeared on From the Top’s Show 157 in 2007 as an 11-year-old, on winning the junior division of the 11th International Competition of Young Violinists in Honor of Karol Lipiński and Henryk Wieniawski in Lublin, Poland. Mindy is now 13 but she competed against violinists up to the age [...]
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From the Top was pleased to give the first Margaret Stewart Lindsay Arts Leadership Award to violist Griffin Gaffney at our show in Boston yesterday. Margaret Stewart Lindsay inspired many by overcoming her personal challenges and for her generous compassion. She turned her life experience into a desire to help others. She had a passion [...]
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Last spring, listeners heard host Christopher O’Riley tell 15-year-old cellist Aaron Wolff from Newton, MA “I hate you!” He didn’t actually mean it. But he was confessing that he was seriously jealous that Aaron Wolff would be appearing in the latest feature film from the Coen brothers. Aaron plays Danny Gopnik, the son of a [...]
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