Posts Tagged ‘tanglewood’
Remembering Bill Fairweather
Bill was loved by colleagues as a technical broadcast engineer for WGBH Channel 2.
Read MoreRemembering Wil Morton
Wil found his calling in the world of audio engineering at WGBH Boston.
Read MoreJane Doerfer, 78, producer and author
She wrote cookbooks and was a magazine food columnist. She taught cooking classes and for a time ran a Vermont inn. She had been a WGBH producer and an official with the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities.
Read MoreTom Dunn, 72, Writer-Announcer
Tom joined WGBH in 1974 and he soon became a writer-announcer, an association that lasted more than 15 years.
Read MoreRobert Warren Davis, 94, Lighting Designer
In 1969–1970 he served as Lighting Designer for the first “Evening at Symphony” and “Evening at Pops” at Symphony Hall.
Read MoreBill Cosel: What goes around…
From Bill Cosel What goes around, goes around, goes around / Comes all the way back around? 50 years ago, August 1962: As a BU Scholar newbie at WGBH, my first production experience was camera at Tanglewood when Charles Munch gave his farewell concert as Music Director of the BSO, performing Beethoven’s Ninth. Nervous and thrilled, …
Read MoreBSO to stream complete concerts on its website
From the Boston Globe: Free streaming of recent Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood concerts will be available on the BSO’s website starting next week.
Read MoreMy interview with Andrew Raeburn at Tanglewood
Tanglewood concerts were always an important part of music programming at WGBH. In the summer of 1970, as Erich Leinsdorf was about to retire as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, he would conduct his final concert at Tanglewood.
Read MoreThe Boston public radio war I
From the Boston Globe – 12/18/2009 A new WCRB, and a shrinking classical dial In a city passionate about classical music, a lot of listeners get their fill by catching the Boston Symphony Orchestra and other programming on the radio… WGBH purchased WCRB this fall, and there is now significantly less classical music on the…
Read MoreBaird Hastings, 88, WGBH-FM host
From Thevillager.com Baird Hastings, eclectic music director, dies at 88 Baird Hastings, a conductor, music director, Mozart specialist and longtime Village resident, died May 16 at the age of 88. He was a founder and director of the Mozart Festival Orchestra of New York City, whose affairs he administered from his Greenwich Ave. apartment. Much…
Read MoreIn a World All Its Own (1955)
From John Nadeau — 3/2007 When we did simulcasts on radio and TV, my station break announcement sounded like this: “This is the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council…WGBH-FM at 89.7 megacycles and WGBH-TV, channel 2, in Boston.” I joined the staff of WGBH-FM-TV in 1955. The two stations identified themselves as “noncommercial and educational” because…
Read MoreOne Way to Run a Railroad (1946-59)
From Ray Wilding-White: The station was made reality by a bunch of dedicated, overworked and underpaid young maniacs who hardly knew a microphone from a zebra when they started on radio. I know. I was there.
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