From the Top
Sundays 3 - 4 p.m.
Hosted by acclaimed pianist Peter Dugan, each broadcast presents five high-caliber performances along with interviews, sketches and games, revealing the heart and soul behind extraordinary young musicians. From the Top is taped before live audiences in concert halls from Boston to Honolulu. From NPR.
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In a conversation with pianist Lara Downes, the New Yorker staff writer says music in America will keep evolving as long as the country keeps an open door to new people and new sounds. -
A collective of musicians, the Refugee Orchestra Project, held a 10th anniversary performance Sunday at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Mass. The orchestra uses music to demonstrate how refugees from across the world play an important role in culture and society. -
In a new album, the Ukranian-born, New York-based pianist and composer Vadim Neselovskyi channels the horror and hope he's felt since Russia's incursion. -
On his new album, the violinist completely rethinks The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and leans into old folk songs with the help of Sam Amidon. -
The classic spiritual conjures themes of freedom and resilience, which flow through a conversation between pianist Lara Downes and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. -
Fans of Dolly Parton have a new biography to dive into. In “Ain't Nobody’s Fool," western Mass. writer Martha Ackmann lays out Parton's life from an impoverished childhood to stardom. -
The traveling program, created by Naomi Westwater, aims to give credit to the role of musicians of color in the folk music genre while supporting today's non-white folk artists. -
Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, pipe organ prog and a guided tour of 18th century German chart-toppers. -
Snider's supercharged relationship with her art form and open-book stance on depression and anxiety shine through in her new opera, which debuts this week in Los Angeles. -
Routinely called a "musician's musician," the pianist had an atypical career that even he called mysterious. He spent it returning to a handful of favorite composers, with acclaimed results.
