Evening Host: Friday through Sunday, 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm
David Garland grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, and graduated with honors from Rhode Island School of Design in 1976. From there he came straight to New York City, working as an illustrator and graphic designer to support his activities as a composer, pianist, singer, guitarist, flutist, and drummer.
In 1983 Garland began presenting unusual music on the radio, first as a volunteer at WKCR, Columbia University's station, and from 1987 professionally at WNYC. For Garland, radio has always been a medium for musical adventure and discovery. His early experience listening to the pop hits of the mid-1960s led him to the psychedelia of the late-60s and then to experimental jazz and classical music. Most of all, Garland believes in radio's unique power to bring listeners and music together in ways that illuminate, communicate, and entertain.
Now in its 22nd year, Garland's Spinning On Air on WNYC (Sundays, 8 pm to 9 pm) is a great place to hear insightful interviews and studio performances by cutting-edge innovators of song. He comes to WQXR after hosting Evening Music on WNYC from 1990 to 2009. Over the years Garland's on-air guests have spanned the gamut from John Cage and John Zorn to Loren Maazel and Vladimir Ashkenazy to Devendra Banhart and Sufjan Stevens. Garland specializes in making unusual musical connections among diverse pieces, entertaining the listener with his insight and wry humor. At WNYC he has hosted many live concert broadcasts and served as interim Music Director as well as programming, producing, and editing his shows.
On Saturday nights on WQXR, Garland presents new and old film scores, sharing his delights in movie music and his encyclopedic knowledge of the field. His occasional writings about music include extensive liner notes for Rhino Records' Brain in a Box: The Science Fiction Collection.
Garland is active as a composer and performer, and was called "a superb, crazily imaginative songwriter" by critic Kyle Gann in The Village Voice. And according to critic David Greenberger of Harp Magazine, Garland's eighth album, Noise In You (2007), "strikes a perfect balance between folkish timelessness, Tin Pan Alley pop smarts and fearless invention." To learn more about Garland's music and his WQXR and WNYC radio shows, visit his website at www.davidgarland.com.
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