Job Opening – Music Director, Wisconsin Public Radio

From David Michael Wood and Michael Arnold at WI Public Radio: JOB LISTING: Wisconsin Public Radio is seeking a new music director.   This is a great opportunity for the right person.  If you know anybody who loves classical music and would enjoy working at a large station with an incredibly talented staff, please encourage them to apply. Madison is a wonderful place to live and work.   It regularly shows up on lists of great places to live.  You can find out more about our lovely community here:  http://www.visitmadison.com/ We are reviewing our … Continue Reading

General Manager Search – KCME in Colorado Springs

From Livingston Associates, here’s the job description.  (Applications are due Jan. 18th.): Our client seeks a General Manager for an all Classical public radio station in the Western United States, whose current GM is retiring, and who is likely to have an ongoing role at the station. The ideal candidate will be energetic, entrepreneurial and externally focused, including being a highly effective advocate and spokesperson for the organization in the community. The GM will be the lead fundraiser for the organization, with commitment to and demonstrated success in relationship centered fundraising, including … Continue Reading

Congrats to WCLV

… and Happy New Year to all of our friends in classical radio! From Robert Conrad: Well, WCLV has crossed the Rubicon and is now the nation’s newest public radio station. It happened at Midnight on New Year’s Day, on which we re-broadcast the eleven hour November 1st WCLV at 50 live broadcasts of performances by area musical groups, utilizing all three of the ideastream studios in a round robin sequence. Informal fund raising has been steady and above expectations. And we do our first official extended fund raiser in February. My … Continue Reading

Can Classical Music Save the World?

If the misinterpreters of the Mayan prophecy are right, the world is going to end on Friday, Dec. 21st, but some musicians in Alaska have a plan to rescue us all.  Cellist Zuill Bailey, violinist Paul Rosenthal, and pianist Natasha Paremski perform a recital they’re calling “Concert to Save the World” in Anchorage Friday night.  Radio station KLEF is in on the fun. Promoter Rick Goodfellow, owner of KLEF classical radio, insists that he “discovered encoded messages for extending the Mayan Long Count Calendar and undoing the apocalyptic prophecies of Nostradamus while … Continue Reading

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