Tag: radio

Hi all! I just returned home from Silicon Valley and the beautiful campus of Stanford University, where we taped a great show this weekend. We had the pleasure of being joined via phone by a very special guest –puzzle master extraordinaire Will Shortz! As a huge fan of the New York Times Sunday Crossword, I […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

I’m coming to you today from several thousand feet off the ground on my flight back to Boston, and I’m still on a high (no pun intended) from yesterday’s taping at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. It was an all-alumni show featuring some incredible performers from past seasons. I had such a blast reconnecting with […]

Greetings from beautiful Atlanta, Georgia, where it is a sunny 64 degrees (my poor colleagues back in Boston are dealing with much chillier temperatures)! We had a great taping last night at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at Emory University. It was really fun reconnecting with this show’s 10th Anniversary Alumni guest Melissa White, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

17-year-old cellist, Khari Joyner, from Atlanta, GA, is passionate about music’s power to heal. During his interview on From the Top’s live taping in El Paso, TX (airing the week of October 19), Khari spoke about his experience overcoming lymphoma cancer last year and how music and the power of positive thinking helped get him […]

-Kathryn J Bacasmot Living on the East Coast for the past five years has given me plenty of practice in verbally defending my home state, Nebraska. I have honestly grown to relish the laundry list of questions, the looks of disbelief, and the subsequent thinly veiled attempts to recover and come off sounding politely intrigued: […]

On this week’s show, we reconnect with 26-year-old violinist and Cultures in Harmony founder, William Harvey. William first appeared on From the Top’s pilot episode and returns to the show as part of our special 10th anniversary alumni spotlight series. You can listen to the episode at fromthetop.org and learn more about William’s mission to […]

Greetings from El Paso, Texas! I can see why El Paso is nicknamed the Sun City – it was 92 degrees today. Quite a treat after the unseasonably cold weather in Boston. It’s beautiful here. Picture a southwestern city with open vistas, big skies, and mountains in the distance. The Plaza Theatre, where we taped […]

Announcer Joanne Robinson and Producers Tom Voegeli and Tim Banker take a road trip from Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Omaha, Nebraska, while taping From the Top broadcasts this past May. Check it out.

This Saturday, From the Top’s taping at the El Paso Summer Music Festival will celebrate our partnership with the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which has supported $1 million in scholarships to young musicians with financial need. The broadcast taping will feature five new Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award recipients, and will include updates from […]

By Joanne Robinson Greetings from Omaha, two days following our taping in Cedar Rapids, Iowa! The taping was great, and the drive to Omaha wasn’t half bad either (except for the hour-long detour to try to find a Starbucks in the most rural part of Iowa). There were definitely some memorable moments from our Cedar […]

We are pleased to announce our 2009-2010 national tour dates for taping our popular NPR radio program hosted by acclaimed concert pianist Christopher O’Riley. The tour will include concert events at From the Top’s home base at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall and cities from Atlanta to Santa Barbara and will mark From the Top’s […]

From the Top Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Clifton Williams will appear on this week’s national broadcast of From the Top on NPR and is featured in today’s Washington Post. Clifton, a 17-year-old pianist from Washington, DC is among the 100 recipients who have received a $10,000 award through a partnership between From the Top […]

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 […]

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 […]