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Robert Sherman Discusses Classical WQXR-FM on the next Missouri Southern Live! (5 p.m. Friday, March 31)
Robert Sherman, host of McGraw-Hill Companies' Young Artists Showcase on WQXR, the classical music radio station of The New York Times, will be the next guest of host Jeff Skibbe (left). The interview anticipates Sherman's April 29 presentation at MSSU of an abbreviated lecture version of a course he teaches at Juilliard titled "The Business of Music" for the contestants of this year's MSIPC.
He has published two books with Victor Borge, is the coauthor of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classical Music, and with his brother, Alexander Sherman, has compiled a pictorial biography of their mother, the renowned pianist Nadia Reisenberg.
Host Jeff Skibbe is general manager of 88.7KXMS. He has been in public radio management since 1980. He came to Missouri Southern State University in 1990 from Wichita State University where he was director/general manager of public radio station KMUW. He also has worked at commercial and public radio stations in Indiana, New York, Illinois, Texas, and Florida since the mid-1970's. Jeff has taught radio-TV management and mass media research & statistics at Wichita State University, and history of American broadcasting, international broadcasting, and social issues & broadcasting at the University of Texas at El Paso. Jeff earned a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in European Studies at The University of Evansville (Indiana), as well as a second master's degree in Public Visual Communication at Southern Illinois University where he taught radio/TV production. Jeff also attended Harlaxton College (click for video) in Lincolnshire, England -- "Hill House" in the 1999 film The Haunting.
88.7KXMS is an international cultural resource of Missouri Southern State University