{"id":24,"name":"John Pitman","url":"","description":"I started working at All Classical Portland in 1983, just a few months after graduation from Benson Polytechnic, and the same year that 89.9 FM began broadcasting.  Much has changed since that first summer that Portland gained a new classical music station!  In fact, we didn\u2019t call it \u201cAll Classical Portland\u201d.  89.9 FM was owned by the school district, and the call letters were KBPS (\u201cBPS\u201d for its location: Benson Polytechnic High School).  Moving up from weekends to weekdays, part-time to full-time, and from a music librarian to Music Director (2006), I\u2019ve been witness to tremendous growth in the organization, and seen the facilities move twice:  In 1992, from a classroom to a stand-alone building at Benson, and 2014 to our beautiful, current location on the Willamette.\r\n<br><br>\r\nAs music director, I work with the programming team and our producers to carefully craft each hour of music almost every day.  It\u2019s a job I love doing. When I\u2019m not programming, I\u2019m interviewing musicians from around the world to add to All Classical Portland\u2019s online offering of reviews, spotlights and insights.  As of January 2018, I\u2019m back on weekends, hosting throughout the afternoon, and evenings with The Concert Hall, a series that draws from that library of 25,000 CDs of fantastic recordings.  It\u2019s my pleasure, and privilege, to share this great music with you.\r\n<br><br>","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/author\/johnpitman\/","slug":"johnpitman","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}