Tag: From the Top

If you subscribe to our e-newsletter, you may have already heard that we recently received news of a $25,000 matching challenge grant from our leadership donors Liz and Phill Gross of Boston, MA. Since we announced this challenge two weeks ago, we have raised 85% of our matching goal. Incredible! We’d thought we’d send a […]

Last June, From the Top Tour Producer David Balsom was preparing to visit Cedar Rapids, Iowa to plan out a yearlong residency program with Orchestra Iowa when he received a frantic email from the symphony’s executive director. “The email said flood waters are coming, we’re evacuating, don’t come.” “I thought it was most likely the […]

Last week our TV production partner Don Mischer produced an event for the Democratic National Committee in Los Angeles and invited From the Top to recommend a performer. 10-year-old guitarist Roberto Granados, a LA native, who was featured on our broadcast in Lubbock, TX earlier this year, was available to perform and by all accounts […]

From the Top encouraged 17-year-old composer and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award recipient Michael Taylor to plan an arts outreach program after his December appearance on the radio program in Indianapolis, IN. He recently sent us this update following his visit to his local elementary school in Arlington, TX: Today I went over to […]

This month’s issue of Strings Magazine highlights emerging soloists. The magazine profiles 26-year-old violinist William Harvey who appeared on one of From the Top‘s first episodes. William will return to Boston May 3 to record a new broadcast of our show. His appearance will launch our  10th anniversary celebration, in which we will look back […]

As promised, here are some more behind the scenes videos taken during our March 29 radio taping at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston. The house was completely packed, including many students from the Boston area and even one group all the way from Pittsfield, MA.  The broadcast airs nationally the week of April […]

We shot the following videos with our handy Flip cam backstage at our recent radio taping in Buffalo, NY at Kleinhans Music Hall.  16-year-old violinist William Hagen and 18-year-old violist Matthew Vera show us both the serious and silly sides of From the Top performers. The broadcast will air nationally the week of April 13th. […]

We are always thrilled to hear from our past performers, and here is another round of news from the many From the Top alumni living all over the country. Kevin Olusola writes, “I’m currently a junior at Yale University, East Asian Studies Major and Pre-Med. In Summer 2007, I was on a trip with 100 […]

On Sunday, March 15, From the Top teamed up with Music Director JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra for a live concert and taping of our radio show. The collaboration was exciting in many ways. Not only did it give our performers an opportunity to solo with a first class orchestra, it provided a […]

By Caeli Smith, Roving Reporter Hi everyone! One of my all-time favorite quotes comes from the other side of the globe. In the words of Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali mystic, “Music fills the infinite between two souls.” A person who lives half the world away can seem infinitely far from you, but music brings people […]

On Friday, February 6th, 2009, 19-year-old violinist, Julia Glenn, and 16-year-old cellist, Rainer Crosett, visited the Community Therapeutic Day School in Lexington, MA. Julia and Rainer introduced their instruments and each played a solo piece before joining forces in a duet. All of the students, ages 5 through 12 were present, and they were a […]

17-year-old violinist Karen Cueva visited two third grade classes at the Ohrenberger School in West Roxbury, MA on January 23, 2009. After playing Schubert, Bach and Manuel de Falla, Karen surprised the kids with some hip hop violin. They jumped right in, beat boxing for her while she improvised. Now that’s collaboration! Karen said: “I saw […]