What David Listens for as a Music Curator

Music in his head...

I look and listen for programming that puts the listener first, speaks listener language and answers "yes" to questions like:

I'm not big on music education on the radio, especially in the form made infamous by the so-called "old-school" of classical music announcing.

Radio can, however, educate in a compelling and entertaining way. David Schulman's Musicians in their Own Words series and WNYC's Richard Wagner documentaries are good examples of music education without the academic shackles that have made that term deadly on the radio.

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