Exploring Music Fundraising Programs

Series produced by The WFMT Radio Network

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Meet all of your fundraising goals with the help of this collection of Exploring Music fundraising programs!

Heard on radio stations across the country for more than a decade, Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin is a creative exploration of classical music and other genres. Each week’s programs are unified by compositions that share a central theme, which might be a composer, a period of history, or a musical form.

Peabody Award-winning broadcaster Bill McGlaughlin is a broadly experienced musician, conductor, and composer. Bill draws on his background, his love of jazz, and his unmatched musical knowledge to connect recorded examples with engaging commentary. McGlaughlin is an affable, yet erudite musical story teller, whose insights speak to both novice and expert classical music fans.

Listeners and program directors have enthusiastically responded to Bill McGlaughlin’s anecdotes and illustrations at the piano, and recently, The Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio (AMPPR) honored Bill McGlaughlin with its Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2011 Public Radio Music Conference. The series is also syndicated internationally, and its universal appeal was recently recognized by listeners in Canberra, Australia, who chose Exploring Music as the recipient of the 2010 Artsound Award for Best Overseas Program. Draw your listeners more fully into the world of classical music and develop new audience members by adding Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin to your program schedule.

“We MADE our fundraising goal for the first time in about four years! Your funders really helped to make the difference as did a flurry of new listeners, the best online pledging we've seen, concert tickets from area presenters and donated original artwork for our final day. Our listeners really LOVE Exploring Music, and Bill McGlaughlin's remarkable breadth of knowledge and topics presented in a highly passionate yet personal style."
-- Kimberly Powell, KUCO, Edmond, OK Hide full description

Heard on radio stations across the country for more than a decade, Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin is a creative exploration of classical music and other genres. Each week’s programs are unified by compositions that share a central theme, which might be a composer, a period of history, or a musical form. Peabody Award-winning broadcaster Bill McGlaughlin is a broadly experienced musician, conductor, and composer. Bill draws on his background, his love of jazz, and his unmatched musical knowledge to connect recorded examples with engaging commentary. McGlaughlin is an affable, yet erudite musical story teller, whose insights speak to both novice and expert classical music fans. Listeners and program directors have enthusiastically responded to Bill McGlaughlin’s anecdotes... Show full description


14 Pieces

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A program devoted to his final years, we’ll explore a stream of masterpieces, including Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, the final symphonies and ...

Bought by KCME, WMNR, High Plains Public Radio, KCUR, WUFT and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 41:17
  • Purchases: 8
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Bill McGlaughlin explores the instrumental music composed by Bach while not holding a church job.

Bought by KCME, KCME, High Plains Public Radio, WUFT, Hawaii Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 39:25
  • Purchases: 6
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Bill McGlaughlin continues to explore the instrumental music composed by Bach while not holding a church job.

Bought by KCME, High Plains Public Radio, KCUR, WUFT, Hawaii Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 42:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A true American original. Join us for a condensed look at the life and soulful music of George Gershwin, including his Rhapsody in Blue, An Americ...

Bought by KCME, High Plains Public Radio, KCME, WUFT, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 32:27
  • Purchases: 8
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Exploring Music continues traveling with composers around the world. We will be listening to them express the sounds of their native land and paint...

Bought by KCME, KCME, High Plains Public Radio, WUFT, Hawaii Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 34:25
  • Purchases: 7
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Exploring Music continues traveling with composers around the world. We will be listening to them express the sounds of their native land and paint...

Bought by KCME, KCME, High Plains Public Radio, KCUR, WUFT and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 40:12
  • Purchases: 8
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Exploring Music Spring 2022 Fundraising Episode: 1st Ravel. Designed to complement your station’s on-air fundraising, this fundraising program cons...

Bought by KCME, High Plains Public Radio, WMNR, and KCME


  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 41:19
  • Purchases: 4
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Exploring Music Spring 2022 Fundraising Episode: Mozart: Bright Lights, Big City. Designed to complement your station’s on-air fundraising, this fu...

Bought by KCME


  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 42:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Exploring Music Spring 2022 Fundraising Episode: Franz Schubert and the Friends He Never got to Meet. Designed to complement your station’s on-air ...

Bought by KCME


  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 41:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Exploring Music Fall 2023 Fundraising Episode: Richard Stoltzman. Each Exploring Music fundraising program uses shorter segments with a musical wor...

Bought by KCME and WWFM


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 41:21
  • Purchases: 2
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Exploring Music Fall 2023 Fundraising Episode: Great Conductors II. Each Exploring Music fundraising program uses shorter segments with a musical w...

Bought by KCME and WWFM


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 01:01:17
  • Purchases: 2
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Exploring Music Fall 2023 Fundraising Episode: Ned Rorem. Each Exploring Music fundraising program uses shorter segments with a musical work and co...

Bought by KCME and WWFM


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 43:50
  • Purchases: 2
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For two weeks Bill McGlaughlin and Carnegie Hall’s Archivist Gino Francesconi toured backstage for a view of the three concert venues, the hall’s ...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 41:56
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For two weeks Bill McGlaughlin and Carnegie Hall’s Archivist Gino Francesconi toured backstage for a view of the three concert venues, the hall’s h...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 46:18