Joe Goetz

This will be a very brief post, and I hope it generates some discussion. One of the biggest mental hurdles I’ve overcome is overestimating my radio audience’s level of involvement in the world of classical music.  When I began in radio, I felt a lot of pressure to speak the language of those who were “in the know.”  I envisioned a typical listener as an being older, affluent, regular concertgoer who expected a high level of discourse about the music I was presenting.  My presentation could be very much “insider speak” (and … Continue Reading

One of the biggest of the “big picture” questions that classical radio stations and performing arts organizations struggle to answer is how we make classical music more accessible to people that perceive it as old-fashioned, washed-up, and stodgy.  One method is to focus on the music itself and try to make it easier to understand.  Through “inside the score”-type interactive presentations before concerts, chamber music groups and orchestras have attempted to bridge the gulf of understanding between performers and audiences.  Bill McGlaughlin’s radio program Exploring Music accomplishes this quite well, too, by … Continue Reading