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From the Top celebrated our 300th show with a live taping at our broadcast home, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston. For my breakpiece, I played Brahms’ b-flat minor Intermezzo, Op. 117, No. 2 Stream below:

From the Top did a live taping at San Francisco Conservatory on Valentine’s Day. As rarely happens on the show (we try and include a national palette of musicians on every program), we featured kids all of whom came from the Bay Area. There are just too many talented kids at SFCM-Prep!. The program also …

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February 20th saw a dream come true for all of us at From the Top: film composer non-pareil, Danny Elfman appeared as Guest Artist at our live taping of the show at UC/Denver’s College of Arts and Media. I’ve wanted to have Danny on the show ever since we became friends years ago, and even …

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working on mixed versions of the 90 tracks i composed for each chapter of MZD’s tale of perpetual teens, Hailey & Sam, coming out this July. about 2hours of music, all told. this is one of my faves:

Just wrapped our live taping of From the Top at Montclair State University with our special superstar guests, the Shanghai String Quartet. They closed the show in spectacular style with the Finale of Brahms’ G Major String Sextet alongside two of our young guests, Jasper Snow, viola and Chase Park, cello. As appetizer, for my …

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From the Top recently taped two episodes at UConn/Storrs and the sumptuous Peace Center in Greenville, SC. I’ve been having the most cleansing and enlightening time these days working on the 6th Partita (especially after reading John Eliot Gardiner’s recent biography, Music in the Castle of Heaven set to the accompaniment of Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s complete …

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