Robert Sherman

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WQXR's Robert Sherman (Steve J. Sherman)

Robert Sherman, award-winning broadcaster and writer, has been associated with WQXR for over sixty years. Formerly Program Director and later Senior Consultant, he continues to produce and host the Young Artists Showcase, underwritten by the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation. He also hosted the Lincoln Center presentations of the annual Avery Fisher Career Grants for over thirty years.  His popular and award-winning folk series Woody's Children, which began on WQXR is 1969, is now heard on Fordham University's WFUV.      

For more than forty years, Sherman was a music critic and columnist for The New York Times, and for nearly twenty served on the graduate faculty of The Juilliard School. Co-author of The Smart Guide to Classical Music and two best-selling books with Victor Borge, he also joined with his brother Alexander to compile a pictorial biography of their celebrated mother, pianist Nadia Reisenberg.   

Robert Sherman hosts concerts and moderates panels for many cultural organizations, among them the Brevard Music Festival, Salon De Virtuosi, Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning, Stecher and Horowitz Foundation, and the Yonkers Philharmonic. He has served as narrator for such esteemed ensembles as Canadian Brass, New Jersey Wind Symphony, U.S. Military Academy (West Point) Band, and the Greenwich Symphony, along the way premiering works by Seymour Barab, William Bolcom, John Corigliano, Issachar Miron, Dina Pruzhansky and Grigory Smirnov.

At WQXR.org you can find our growing archive collection Robert Sherman's The Listening Room as well as the Great Artists series interviews, a few landmark editions of Woody's Children, and the shows listed below.