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Congratulations to the winners of Do Something and VH1′s “Save Our Music” campaign! By organizing fundraisers, launching letter writing campaigns, and making presentations to their local school committees, students were given the chance to win up to $2500 for their school’s music program. Read about the winning projects and get inspired! Tell us what you [...]
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Young musicians can do amazing things! 17-year-old violist Deberly Kauffman, who was featured on From the Top’s radio taping in Wolfeboro, NH this past summer, created a free music lessons program in her hometown of Robbinsville, NJ. She has now been teaching and running this program with her father for five years! Deberly’s program offers [...]
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Our monster two-week tour has finally come to an end, and from Atlanta to Granville to Waco to Dallas, it’s been a great one! On Friday night we taped at the exceptionally beautiful AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Winspear Opera House in Dallas. Two From the Top alums, percussionists Joshua Jones and John Ringor from Chicago, [...]
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Howdy from the Lone Star State! Do you know we’ve done more tapings in Texas than anywhere else in the country? We just drove to Dallas, where we have a taping tomorrow, from Waco, where we had a show at Baylor University’s Jones Concert Hall last night (thanks to the folks at KWBU). It was [...]
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This weekend From the Top’s own Education Program Assistant and alum extraordinaire Audrey Wright (Show 138 and Show 160) is playing in a benefit concert in Cotuit, MA. Together with friends from New England Conservatory — Yundu Wang, piano and Linor Katz, cello — Audrey’s concert will support Children’s Cove, a non-profit Child Advocacy Center [...]
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Irineo Cabreros has been described as hard to peg. Featured on From the Top’s Mobile, AL taping last winter, the phenomenal 18-year-old musician says it best when he describes himself as “a dreadlocked, birkenstocked, teenage flutist who loves to play soccer and beat-box.” Currently enrolled in the Harvard University and New England Conservatory (NEC) dual [...]
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Check out Denison Magazine’s post and video on From the Top’s November 7 taping at Swasey Chapel (on the air the week of January 4, 2010).
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From the Top’s broadcast for this week was taped at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston on October 4, 2009. We asked our performers to tell us about the music they performed on the show: Adria Ye, 11, piano (right) Restlessness, Op. 19, No. 5; The Spinning Song, Op. 67, No. 4 from Songs [...]
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This NPR story features studies that prove how musician’s brains are better at isolating sounds in noisy environments. Find out how music training can change your brain!
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