AND THE AMPPR BOARD OF DIRECTORS WINNERS ARE . . . .
Elections for the AMPPR Board of Directors were held in Savannah in February.
Dave Glerum, Music Director, WMFE-FM in Orlando; Tony Hanover, Program
Director, KCSN-FM in Northridge; and Raymond Jones, Cultural Resource Executive
at WHRO-FM, were elected to fill vacated Board seats; and Chris Kohtz,
Manager of Classical 24, was reelected for a second term.
 Born
and raised in Rochester, New York, Dave Glerum graduated in 1979 with a
B.A. in English, Philosophy, and secondary education from SUNY Geneseo.
He taught high school English in western New York for a year before becoming
a classical announcer and later music director of all-classical public
station WXXI-FM in Rochester, N.Y. After more than ten years with WXXI-FM,
Dave became music director of WMFE-FM in 1990. Dave is responsible for
WMFE’s classical music programming; hosts the weekday 9 to noon classical
program; hosts and produces Central Florida In Concert, a weekly
program featuring recordings made by WMFE-FM spotlighting regional musicians
and ensembles; and is producer of a weekly program devoted to opera.
Dave’s favorite composers are Debussy, Mozart, Brahms, Ravel, and Vaughan
Williams. His favorite authors are Thomas Hardy, John Steinbeck, Leo Tolstoy,
James Wright, and Richard Yates. He is passionate about live music making
and attends as many concerts as possible. He enjoys classic black and white
movies, foreign film (especially French), and cheers on the Buffalo Bills,
Buffalo Sabres, and Orlando Magic.
Dave eats musicology for breakfast; he is the program annotator for the
Orlando Philharmonic and the Daytona Beach Symphony Society.
Born and raised in Monrovia, California, Tony Hanover 
is a fish-eating
vegetarian striving for pesco-veganism. He is a cat-person who doesn’t
own
a cat, and
he loves to hike in the local mountains as often as possible. He’s unspeakably
fond of attending the opera, and does so every chance he gets. He loves
dining out, preferably on Sushi.
Tony travels, jumps out of airplanes, and has been a professional wedding
photographer. He was the associate producer of The Rick Dees Weekly
Top 40; has worked at Los Angeles area stations KPCC, KGIL/KMGX, KMPC,
KLSX; and was at his current station, KCSN, during the time of the 1992
Northridge earthquake. He vividly remembers broadcasting from an Army tent
on the Cal State Northridge Soccer Field for several weeks thereafter.
Tony is currently KCSN’s program director, music director, and morning
classical announcer. In addition to the AMPPR board, Tony is also on the
board of the West Hollywood Orchestra and is a contributor to Out Magazine.
Tony paints, writes, and devotes a amount of his time to attending live
music performances of all kinds. Ella Fitzgerald is Tony’s favorite vocalist
of all time, and his favorite writer is Richard Brautigan, author of Trout
Fishing in America. Tony’s favorite artist is Salvador Dalí. He
has visited Kerouac’s grave as well as Buxtehude’s. His favorite
symphonies are Mahler’s Fourth and Sibelius’ Fifth. His favorite string
quartet is Ravel’s. Tony hopes you will listen to the “Etruscan” Concerto
of Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks. His best friend is fashion
designer and extreme athlete Pamela Zoolalian.
 Raymond
Jones, Cultural Resource Executive at WHRO FM, has been on the air in Norfolk
for 41 years doing classical music. He hosts several weekly programs, including
Off the Shelf, Gramophone on the Air, and Final Vinyl. He represents WHRO
at music, arts, and cultural events throughout Hampton Roads, and he oversees
WHRO cultural programming.
Raymond had a secret second career as an educator, collecting six degrees
including a doctorate from Virginia Tech and doing post-doctorate work
at Oxford. He was a part-time professor at Old Dominion University and
has also been a classical music columnist for the Newport News Daily Press
(a Chicago Tribune subsidiary) for 25 years. Occasionally he guest conducts
orchestras and bands and narrates concerts for bands such as the United
States Continental Army Band.
Raymond is married to Joan, a flutist and flight instructor; has two great
kids, three sweet Rottweilers, and has “more CDs than God.”
 Chris
Kohtz, Manager of MPR’s Classical 24, was elected to the AMPPR Board of
Directors at MPC 37 in San Antonio and reelected at MPC 40 in Savannah.
Chris has had careers both as a professional musician and as a broadcaster.
He began his career in radio with KUCV-FM in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1987.
That station became the statewide Nebraska Public Radio Network (NPRN).
In 1998 he became music director at Cincinnati’s classical public radio
station WGUC. He moved to Classical 24 in 2000.
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