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From The Top: Tiny Desk Concert Hotney 6 Streams • 2 years ago

Tom Huizenga | January 15, 2025
There is no greater day each year at the Tiny Desk, for this music nerd, than when we host young musicians from the organization called From the Top. Through its 25 years of radio broadcasts, digital content and fellowships, FTT is a robust platform that showcases and supports young musicians around the country. And the three teenaged artists they’ve gathered here will renew your faith in the future of music.

Thirteen-year-old Cameron Renshaw, from Byron Center, Mich., is a born entertainer. “I really pour my heart out whenever I play,” he told Ellen DeGeneres when he appeared on her program at age 9. He was so exuberant he probably could have hosted the show himself. For us he plays a tricky piece on a single string of his cello by the 19th century violin hotshot Nicolò Paganini. The calm smiles on Renshaw’s face belie the difficulty of the music as he fingers wispy harmonics and leans into serious shredding.

Violinist Laura Jin, a 12-year-old wunderkind attending the pre-college program at Juilliard, might be soft spoken, even shy, but she thrives on danger. Which is why she’s playing Wieniawski’s flamboyant Polonaise Op. 4. “I really enjoy this piece because it has many technical difficulties,” she explains before launching into a thicket of double stops, pizzicato and harmonics, offering a sterling tone and preserving the splendor and swagger of the piece.

Rhyuhn Green, a sartorially resplendent 18-year-old from Philadelphia, lives a double life as both an extraordinary pianist and a composer fielding commissions. He’ll release his debut album this month. He wrote the Impromptu “Symbiosis” at age 9 and it has evolved ever since, with its wealth of hummable tunes, romantic flourishes a la Chopin and a billowing, passionate crescendo.

In the end, our Tiny Desk crew — along with an audience of doting parents and From the Top staffers — all knew that something important and kind of miraculous had taken place. Together, we created a document for the world to witness the powerful message of great music made by the next generation of very fine musicians.

SET LIST
Nicolò Paganini: Variations on One String on a theme by Rossini (excerpt)
Henryk Wieniawski: Polonaise de Concert, Op. 4
Rhyuhn Green: Impromptu in F minor “Symbiosis”

MUSICIANS
Cameron Renshaw: cello; Eden Chen: piano (Paganini)
Laura Jin: violin; Eri Kang: piano (Wieniawski)
Rhyuhn Green: piano (Green)

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Tom Huizenga
Director/Editor: Kara Frame
Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant
Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
Production Assistants: Ashley Pointer, Elle Mannion
Photographer: Sofia Seidel
Tiny Desk Copy Editor: Hazel Cills
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins

#tinydesk #nprmusic #fromthetop

Ali Zafar - Main Nahi Hoon | Official Music Video Hotney 3 Streams • 3 years ago

#alizafar #spirituality #music

“We all somewhat struggle with the question of "Who am i ?"

Remove the "I" and we open ourselves to the understanding that perhaps we are only vessels for something greater to flow through - manifesting itself in its glorious creativity - sometimes as poetry, sometimes as music, sometimes only silence and sometimes nothing at all. And from that nothingness, emerges everything.

I hope this song can make sense to some of that."

- Ali Zafar

✦ Link to Spotify: https://bit.ly/Mainnahihoon-Spotify

✦ Stream the HQ Audio here: https://bit.ly/Mainnahihoon-AZ

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TikTok: https://bit.ly/Mainnahihoon-TikTok

✦ Main Nahi Hoon
Produced and Directed by: Ali Zafar

✦ Audio Credits
Music production & arrangement: Ali Zafar
Poetry & composition: Shoaib Ali
(Inspired by Sufi poetry by unknown writer)

Flute & programming: Hassan Badshah
Acoustic guitar & bass: Amir Azhar
Drums: Salman Albert
Mix Engineer: Ali Zafar
Mastering Engineer: Akash Parvaiz
Strings section: Istanbul strings

✦ Video Credits
Directed & edited by: Ali Zafar
Director of Photography: Abubakar Saddique
Assistant Director: Safeer Qureshi
Line Production: Istanbul Line Films
Line Producer: Anum Ahmed
Production Coordinator: Hamza Ahmed
Production Manager: Ozgur Karpat
Production Assistant: Burak Erkonak
Camera Crew: Ramin Mirzayev, Ozgur Haydar, Emre Cakir, Zeyn Kalan
Colorist: Ercan Kucuk
Stylist: Ceren Devrim
Costume Assistant: Buse Dilber
Hair & Makeup: Sezgin Milik
Hair & Makeup Assistant: Fatema

Guitar Acoustic: Mehti Ara
Guitar Nylon: Herman Behrad
Cello: Duygu Yaman
Violins: Sude Kar, Edru Taskin, Sinem Klisaslan
Flute: Nurollah
Flute: Dilan
Darbuka: Emin Hajizadeh
Bass: Babak Shalman
Drum: Hamidah Saeedi

✦ Connect with Ali Zafar:
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3nuymw6
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aly.zafar
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AliZafarsays
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ali_zafar
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AliZafarofficial
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ali_zafar

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Donna Summer - Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger) (1982) • TopPop Hotney 2 Streams • 3 years ago

Today, May 17, 2021, we commemorate Donna Summer's untimely death nine years ago.

LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter and actress. She gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s and became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following.

Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she left New York and spent several years living, acting and singing in Germany, where she met music producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte in Munich, where they recorded influential disco hits such as "Love to Love You Baby" and "I Feel Love", marking her breakthrough into an international career.
Summer returned to the United States in 1975, and other hits such as "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", "Heaven Knows", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (duet with Barbra Streisand) and "On the Radio" followed.

"Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" is a Grammy-nominated single from Donna Summer's self-titled 1982 album. The single was her 12th top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
This music video features Donna Summer dancing in a room full of pop art. She wore a black satin outfit to disguise her pregnancy as she was expecting her baby, Amanda Grace. The video also featured clips of Donna dancing during a photo shoot wearing a blue dress with a large belt to cover her stomach. The same dress (outfit) is what she is wearing on the cover for the single and album.
The video was first broadcast by Toppop on August 20, 1982.

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Broadcast date:
August 20, 1982

This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip.

The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives.

AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988.

AVROTROS Broadcasting
PO Box 2
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The Netherlands

TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.
World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.

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