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The Midnight Special is a syndicated radio show broadcast on Chicago, Illinois radio station, WFMT-FM (98.7 MHz) since 1953. [1] It is a showcase for folk and roots music from historical and contemporary artists. The show also features comedy sketches and show tunes. The official description is: "folk music & farce, show tunes & satire, madness ...
WFMT (98.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, featuring a classical music radio format. It is managed by Window to the World Communications, Inc., owner of WTTW, Chicago's Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member station. WFMT seeks donations on the air and on its website.
Another classical music station, WFMT, hired Tait in June 1972. [3] He succeeded Marty Robinson, who had left to work at a local PBS affiliate. [2] At WFMT, Tait established and hosted the programs Chicago Symphony Retrospective and Collector's Item. [3]
This Network included most public radio stations in the United States as well as many radio stations around the world including those syndicated by the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the European Broadcast Union, China, and Russia. A total of 39 two-hour programs featuring Music of the Baroque concerts ...
The show, which debuted in 2003, is produced by WFMT Radio Network. Exploring Music is in many ways the heir to the late Karl Haas' popular long-running show, Adventures in Good Music, expanded and updated for a 21st-century audience. [4] [5] As of 2013, Exploring Music airs on 55 U.S. radio stations [1] and has over 400,000 live listeners weekly.
An hour-long radio program about Frey's life and work, hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel, was broadcast on The Studs Terkel Program, in 1997 throughout the United States. [4] The Studs Terkel Program, aired on 98.7 WFMT Chicago between 1952 and 1997. The one-hour program was broadcast each weekday.
Born in Chicago, Alexander Djordjevic began his piano studies at age three, performing as a concerto soloist at ages twelve and fifteen. As a Fulbright Scholar, [1] Alexander Djordjevic was a student of the Russian pianist and pedagogue Vitaly Margulis at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany where he was awarded the Aufbaustudium Diploma [2] “With Distinction.”
Norman Pellegrini (July 18, 1929 – July 2, 2009) was an American radio executive, producer, and personality. He was the program director for WFMT radio in Chicago from 1953 to 1996. On air he led WFMT's internationally syndicated broadcasts of live performances from the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 1971 until his retirement.