{"id":109434,"date":"2025-12-10T11:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?p=109434"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:36:56","slug":"artswatch-fred-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/artswatch-fred-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon ArtsWatch: Fred Child comes home to lead All Classical Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Press_CEO2025-660x495.jpg\" alt=\"Featured image for All Classical Radio names Fred Child as New President &amp; CEO\" class=\"wp-image-109410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Press_CEO2025-660x495.jpg 660w, https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Press_CEO2025-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Press_CEO2025-425x319.jpg 425w, https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Press_CEO2025-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Press_CEO2025.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<p><em>Oregon ArtsWatch By Brett Campbell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most recognizable voices in American classical music is coming to Portland\u2019s airwaves. But Fred Child, the genial longtime host of the nation\u2019s most popular classical music radio program, Performance Today, isn\u2019t just bringing his enthusiastic, informed voice to Portland\u2019s All Classical Radio. He\u2019s just been named the new president and chief executive officer of Oregon\u2019s most significant classical radio station, which has become a cultural hub for the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s also coming home. Child is a Portland native who studied classical piano and jazz, and served for a decade as a host at Oregon Public Broadcasting before becoming Music Director and Director of Cultural Programming at the New York public media giant WNYC, where he also hosted a performance and interview program. Along with his quarter-century of hosting American Public Media\u2019s nationally syndicated Performance Today, Child has also been the Emmy-winning announcer for PBS\u2019s Live From Lincoln Center, hosted National Public Radio\u2019s Creators @ Carnegie program, and anchored many major live concert broadcasts. He bade&nbsp;farewell&nbsp;to Performance Today at the end of October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orartswatch.org\/music-news-fred-child-comes-home-to-lead-all-classical-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">orartswatch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Oregon ArtsWatch By Brett Campbell<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOne of the most recognizable voices in American classical music is coming to Portland\u2019s airwaves. Fred Child, the genial longtime host of the nation\u2019s most popular classical music radio program, Performance Today, has just been named the new president and chief executive officer of Oregon\u2019s most significant classical radio station, which has become a cultural hub for the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":109436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4996],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-coverage"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 04:03:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109434"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109573,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109434\/revisions\/109573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}