Marty Ronish

Marty Ronish is an independent producer of classical music radio programs. She currently produces the Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcasts that air 52 weeks a year on more than 400 stations and online at www.cso.org. She also produces a radio series called "America's Music Festivals," which presents live music from some of the country's most dynamic festivals. She is a former Fulbright scholar and co-author of a catalogue of Handel's autograph manuscripts.

Good News in SF: KDFC Expands

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The University of Southern California is adding to its collection of stations  in the Bay Area with the purchase of KCNL 104.5 in San Jose.  The goal is to increase the coverage of classical KDFC into the South Bay area.  If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll recall that KDFC switched from commercial to public early in 2011.  You can read about it at Radiosurvivor.com and and a little more clearly at Radio-Info.com. It’s probably one of the most convoluted arrangements in the radio universe: KDFC used to belong to Entercom, who sold the brand and the programming to … Continue Reading

World’s Best Job: Pandora Music Analyst

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How would you like the job of listening to music all day and getting paid to judge what you hear without having to write a review? That’s what Pandora’s 26 human — not computer — analysts do all day.  They sort and catalogue Pandora’s library of some 350 genres, encompassing nearly a million tracks by 90,000 artists. There’s a great article about the Music Genome project here.  Michelle Alexander is a senior music analyst and supervisor. …music analysts go through thousands of songs, one by one, rating various music attributes. There are between 200 and 450 attributes for … Continue Reading

Another Entry in Our Digest of Creative Ideas

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WKU Public Radio in Bowling Green, KY is partnering with a local law firm to offer cash prizes for poetry written in response to classical music.  The contest is for high school students, who listen and choose from one of two pieces, Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe, or Vivaldi’s Mandolin Concerto.  They then write and submit their poems.  The top two winners get $500 and $200 respectively in savings bonds.  A nice way to celebrate National Poetry Month.  Read more here.

Spring Fundraising – Guilt, Dread, oh yeah, and Gratitude

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It’s that time for many stations.  Spring fundraising time.  There’s a tongue-in-cheek, somewhat uncomfortable op-ed on Chron.com from the Houston Chronicle.  History Professor and KUHF listener Robert Zaretsky writes about his dread of fundraising and guilt for not donating regularly. I confess a sense of guilt plays a role in my reaction. Though I regularly listen to KUHF, I have been an irregular member. Like the rest of us, I suspect, I have a number of strategies for dealing with this form of guilt. There is the “that will show ’em” gambit, … Continue Reading

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