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New Chamber Music Series in Stockbridge, MA

New England Public Media | By John Nowacki
Published August 30, 2017 at 2:12 PM EDT
John Perkell and John Nowacki
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Berkshire Chamber Players' John Perkel with NEPR's John Nowacki

What do you do after a 35-year career as an orchestral librarian for symphony orchestras? For John Perkel, the answer was simple, if not a little daunting. You start a chamber music series in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. John Nowacki talks with Perkel about how it all came about…

John Perkell John Nowacki
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NEPR's John Nowacki with Berkshire Chamber Players' John Perkel
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John Nowacki
Originally from the Midwest, John Nowacki has had an interest in classical music since he was a high school student, having discovered organ music recordings by E. Power Biggs and singing in the high school’s choirs. His radio career began in 1982 at WILL-FM in Champaign-Urbana, Ilinois, where he started as a board operator for local programming, then became a classical music host. He worked for several Illinois stations before making the move to WNPR in 1990.
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