We proudly welcome to the Cardiff Studios family the Kansas City Symphony. The orchestra joins the Chicago Symphony and the Pacific Symphony as a current client for commercial production. Cardiff Studios provides radio spots for the orchestra, including writing the copy, voicing and producing the spots. You can visit the orchestra's custom page at Cardiff Studios and hear for yourself what these spots sound like. The spots are posted for the orchestra at the Cardiff-Kansas City Symphony page. (By the way, you can also access the Chicago Symphony radio spots at the Cardiff-Chicago Symphony page.)

The Long Beach Symphony has invited me to present two of their pre-concerts next season. I'll next be on hand on for pre-concert talks November 21st and March 27th 2010. The orchestra's focus this season is on the entire Beethoven symphony cycle. I get to provide the chats before the Beethoven symphonies numbers 1 and 6 (the Pastorale). Hope to see you there for one or more of these concerts, all led by Enrique Arturo Diemecke.

The Los Angeles Times in June 2008 ran a story about KUSC-FM's ratings success (and the changes that preceded the success). It's always a pleasure to get a mention in the newspaper when the story isn't about a format change and unhappy listeners. Here's a bit of inside baseball for you: as of July 1 2008 most of the music heard on KUSC -- even during live airshifts such as my 4-7 PM show -- is no longer being played from CDs. Yup. It is now All Files All The Time. I dimly remember my first years in radio having to cue up what were called "LPs" (ask Gram and Gramps about 'em). Then again, back them I just worked in "radio," not "terrestrial radio." (not to be confused with internet radio or satellite radio - Yikes). If you'd like to see the print edition of the article -- complete with a couple of photographs -- here are PDFs of the story: Page 1 -- Page 2 -- Page 3 -- Page 4.