Exploring Music
Bill McGlaughlin at the microphone
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| Genre | Classical music education |
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| Running time | 60 minutes, daily |
| Country | United States |
| Home station | WFMT |
| Syndicates | 55 NPR stations |
| Hosted by | Bill McGlaughlin |
| Created by | Steve Robinson Bill McGlaughlin |
| Written by | Bill McGlaughlin |
| Produced by | Jesse McQuarters Cydne Gillard Noel Morris |
| Executive producer(s) | Steve Robinson |
| Recording studio | WQXR New York City |
| Air dates | since 2003 |
| No. of series | 170+ |
| No. of episodes | 850+ |
| Opening theme |
Exploring Music by Bill McGlaughlin |
| Website | www.exploringmusic.org |
Exploring Music is an internationally syndicated radio program featuring classical music, with commentary and analysis by host Bill McGlaughlin. It is a daily, one-hour show with a single in-depth theme each week. 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.
As of 2013, Exploring Music airs on 55 U.S. radio stations and has over 400,000 live listeners weekly. In Australia, Exploring Music airs on ArtSound FM in Canberra at 9AM, 3MBS at 9 AM, and on 4MBS at 7 PM. The show is also listenable worldwide via on-demand streaming of all its past and current shows.
Exploring Music delves into a wide variety of topics in classical music, and each five-program, one-week series has a single theme. Weekly themes have included weeklong studies of the music of dozens of composers, explorations of various cultures, styles, forms, and time periods, and dozens of other topics and areas of exploration.
A very small sampling of weekly topics includes such themes as:
Over two dozen classical composers — e.g. Schumann, Bartók, Grieg, Debussy, Vaughan Williams, Stravinsky, and Bernstein — have also had weekly themes devoted exclusively to their lives and music. These programs are intimate biographies which include the composer's early life, education, historical and musical influences, personal life, and emotional and musical development, plus numerous musical pieces each day. Several composers, including Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Verdi, and Shostakovich, have had a two-week theme devoted to their lives and works. Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven have each had several series centered around their works. Approximately one week per month is devoted to the life and works of a single composer.
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