John Voci
Sr. Director RadioJohn Voci has worked in all areas of public media including radio, TV and digital, since 1977. He joined WGBH Boston in 1981 working in a variety of capacities over thirty-two years. He managed WGBH’s expansion and development of three broadcast services and six radio channels as well as the station’s move to new facilities in 2007. John has produced radio programs for National Public Radio, Public Radio International and WGBH; television projects for WGBH’s Basic Black; and was Technical Director for many of the station’s pioneering digital broadcasts. He joined NEPR in 2014 and in 2016, launched Media Lab, the station’s youth training initiative. He was also Executive Producer of Words in Transit, the station’s multi-platform series on immigration and for the podcast In Contrast. He is currently producer of Word Matters, a podcast on the history and etymology of words produced in collaboration with Merriam-Webster.
John is also a certified Project Management Professional specializing in project management for clients in broadcast and digital media.
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"Because I Could Not Stop: An Encounter with Emily Dickinson" with music by Amy Beach.
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Oblivion explores the afterlife, in all its spiritual, mythological, and existential aspects. It’s a story of displacement that's part Dante, part David Lynch.Inspired by a Paul Klee painting, Angelus explores the human condition through various cultural histories and the words of a variety of writers.
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Violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing Virtual Concert
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Tania Miller leads the Springfield Symphony Orchestra on November 5 in a program featuring Mozart’s Symphony No. 36, Brahms Symphony No. 3 and "The Messenger" by contemporary Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov.
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Tianhui Ng is director of orchestral studies at Mt. Holyoke College, and he is the music director of the Victory Players, the Pioneer Valley Symphony, the Boston Opera Collaborative and White Snake Projects.
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Composer Gabriel Bouche Caro uses a colloquial term to describe the political status of Puerto Rico: "Ni fú, ni fa," roughly translating to "neither here nor there."
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What can one single voice do amid all the noise of the world? That is a question central to composer Tony Solitro's "Canción Exaltada."
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When composer Iván Enrique Rodriguez moved from Puerto Rico to the mainland U.S., his sense of "Puerto Rican-ness" slowly shifted.
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The title for composer Armando Bayolo's contribution to El Puerto Rico, "Nadie Puede Dar Lo Que No Lo Tiene," comes from Ramón Emeterio Betances, the leader of a failed uprising against Spanish rule in 1868.
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Composer Liliya Ugay's experience of Puerto Rico exists only in her imagination. She had originally planned to travel there prior to the pandemic, but has only gotten as close as Florida. Her composition focuses on the idea of the "Island of Enchantment."