Music students and fans of conductor, composer, musician and radio personality William (Bill) McGlaughlin
will get to spend time with him when he visits Bowling Green State University next week. McGlaughlin’s
radio program "Exploring Music" is heard daily at 11 a.m. on Toledo’s WGTE-FM, and across the
country.
McGlaughlin is this year’s guest artist for the Dorothy E. and DuWayne H. Hansen Series in BGSU’s College
of Musical Arts. The public is invited to an evening with him on Nov. 7. The free program begins at 7
p.m. in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center, where he will share his thoughts and approaches
to music and the business of music.
He will also conduct the BGSU Wind Symphony in an 8 p.m. concert on Nov. 9, also in in Kobacker Hall.
Tickets can be ordered online by visiting www.bgsu.edu/arts or by calling (419) 372-8171.
McGlaughlin is most widely known for his work in broadcasting, as host of Peabody Award-winning "St.
Paul Sunday" and "Exploring Music," as well as programs from Wolf Trap and the Library of
Congress.
He began his professional life playing trombone with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Pittsburgh Symphony.
In addition, he spent 25 years as an orchestral conductor including the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and
12 seasons as music director of the Kansas City Symphony. Over that period, McGlaughlin received
numerous awards for adventurous contemporary programming from the American Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers.
During his visit to BGSU, he will work with composition, brass, conducting and string students and
conduct the Bowling Green Philharmonia in a rehearsal.
The Hansen Musical Arts Series Fund was established in 1996 to bring significant representatives of the
musical arts to share their talents with BGSU students and members of the Bowling Green community. Past
Hansen Series guests have included Marin Alsop, Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Craig Schulman and
Bob McGrath from "Sesame Street," among others.
For more information, call the BGSU arts box office at (419) 372-8171.
