David Randolph, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

David Randolph

American conductor and radio host

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1914

Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York, United States

Date of Death: 12-May-2010

Profession: conductor, choir director, radio personality, music pedagogue

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About David Randolph

  • David Randolph (December 21, 1914 – May 12, 2010) was an American conductor, music educator and radio host.
  • He is best known as the music director from 1965 through 2010 of the St.
  • Cecilia Chorus (known now as The Cecilia Chorus of New York) and as the host of Music for the Connoisseur, later known as The David Randolph Concerts, a WNYC classical music radio program nationally syndicated in the United States. For decades, he made it possible for amateur singers to master the great works of the choral-orchestral repertoire and to perform in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall.
  • His choruses also performed in numerous venues in the New York metropolitan area.
  • He enlightened the general public, both music lovers and non-music lovers, through his ability to present the fundamentals of music in lay terms for all to understand.
  • He was Professor of Music at several N.Y.
  • and N.J.
  • universities, and shared his knowledge and wisdom nationally on radio and television.
  • The author and neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote of him: His passion for the every aspect of the music was evident.
  • He often gave historical glosses on a particular instrument or musical theme, and he never omitted to say that Handel drew much of his most beloved “religious” music from the bawdy Italian love songs of his time.
  • There was no such thing as “religious” music, Randolph felt, any more than there was “military” music or “love” music; there was only music put to different uses, in different contexts.
  • This was a point which he brought out with great eloquence in his beautiful book, This Is Music: A Guide to the Pleasure of Listening, and he would often mention it before a performance of his annual Christmas Oratorio or the great Passions he conducted at Easter.
  • He would mention it, too, when conducting his favorite Requiem Masses by Brahms, Verdi, or Berlioz—all of whom, he would remind the audience, were atheists (as he himself was).
  • The religious imagination, he felt, was a most precious part of the human spirit, but he was convinced that it did not require particular religious beliefs, or indeed any religious belief.

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