Tag: chad lilley

  • From the Top goes “Ku Ku” for Chickens & Saxophone
    From the Top goes “Ku Ku” for Chickens & Saxophone
    Oct 2, 2015

    It’s official. From the Top alum and classical saxophonist Chad Lilley wins this year’s award for most unusual video. Chad plays a gorgeous rendition of Barry Cockcrofts’ “Ku Ku.” You can watch it here. But since we’re From the Top, we decided that a song that sounds like chickens needs to be played FOR chickens. […]

  • From the T(other)p Side – An Alum’s Perspective of From the Top From the Inside Out
    From the T(other)p Side – An Alum’s Perspective of From the Top From the Inside Out
    Jul 10, 2015

    Prologue: My name is Chad Lilley, and I’m a classical saxophonist and Washington DC area native. I appeared on NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley in the fall of my junior year: October 5, 2013, in the near acoustically (and aesthetically) perfect Jordan Hall at The New England Conservatory. In the summer after […]