About CD Syndications
CD Syndications is a well-respected producer and marketer of national classical music programming. Since the company pioneered the distribution of classical radio shows on compact disc in 1994, it has emerged as a leader in the creation of innovative classical radio programming. The company has had a production agreement with WETA, Washington, DC and in a very recent development the two companies are collaborating in a new series On Stage at the Library of Congress. The company’s productions, Indianapolis On-the-Air and Center Stage from Wolf Trap, with personalities such as Raymond Leppard, Rich Kleinfeldt and Bill McGlaughlin, are heard on over 250 stations across the United States, and widely regarded for their "armchair appeal," and insight. From 2001 to 2006 CD Syndications marketed and distributed American Public Media's, Composers Datebook, a daily program highlighting composers of the past and present. The company also produces the Choral Arts Society of Washington DC's radio specials, which emanate from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The company’s Noel Morris creates and produces Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin for WFMT in Chicago. The principals of CD Syndications are Vic Muenzer, President and Producer, Noel Morris, Producer, and Cydne Gillard, Director of Syndications.
The CD Syndications Hosts
Conductor, composer, and radio personality Bill McGlaughlin is a master communicator. His Peabody Award-winning radio series, Saint Paul Sunday, is in its twenty-fourth season. Now in its third year, his national daily radio program, Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin (produced by CD Syndications’ Noel Morris) is heard accross the nation. As a conductor, he has led orchestras throughout the United States including a twelve-year tenure as Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony. More recently, Bill has focused on composition, completing a commission for Continental Harmony, a project of the American Composers Forum and the White House Millennium Council.
Bill also completed a work for Garrison Keillor, Surveying Lake Wobegon, which premiered at the Ravinia Festival in 2000. Surveying Lake Wobegon has since been performed by orchestras from coast to coast, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, and St. Louis Symphony. Other compositions include Aaron’s Horizons, written in memory of Aaron Copland, with whom he worked in the 1970’s and Three Dreams and a Question: Choral Songs on E. E. Cummings first performed by the Kansas City Symphony.
A veteran broadcaster and musician, Rich Kleinfeldt
is known for his lively dialogues with Raymond Leppard on the popular
radio series Indianapolis On-the-Air, now in its thirteenth year. He also
hosted the long-running series Concerts from the Library of Congress.
Formerly with Voice of America, Rich introduced listeners around the
world to American musicians through his weekly program, The Concert Hall.
He now has a new international audience on the daily program Morning
Maestro, on the WorldSpace Satellite radio network. Outside the broadcast
booth, Rich keeps an active performance schedule as a member of the Washington
Saxophone Quartet.
CD Syndications’ Noel Morris
Since joining CD Syndications in 1994, award-winning producer Noel Morris has emerged as a leader in the creation of innovative classical radio programming. In 2003, Noel was named Producer for WFMT’s new groundbreaking daily radio program Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. Now in its thirteenth season, her production Indianapolis On-the-Air with Raymond Leppard and Rich Kleinfeldt debuted on an extraordinary 150 radio stations and has been a favorite with public radio audiences ever since. She created Center Stage from Wolf Trap with Rich Kleinfeldt and Bill McGlaughlin in 1999 and the program was an instant success. Her productions are widely regarded for their casual but informative style, breaking down the barriers for newer listeners of classical music, while continuing to entice the classical music veteran. In 2001, Noel became producer for the Choral Arts Society of Washington radio specials, which emanate from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D. C.
CD Syndications’ Vic Muenzer
Under his direction, the company pioneered the syndication
of weekly symphonic radio programs on compact disc. Besides his work at CD Syndications, Vic
has been passionate about bringing classical music to young people. In
2003, his new Imagination Symphony debuted at the Athenaeum Theater in Chicago
to a huge audience of parents and children and rave feedback. Jon
Von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune and WBBM-TV covered the story of the creation
of the Imagination Symphony along with John Cody of Newsradio 780 and Chicago
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A leader in the Chicago recording industry for many years, Mr. Muenzer
founded two record labels, a production company, and was the producer of
many popular commercial recordings. In 1985 he created Classic Digital,
the first compact disc mastering facility in the Midwest. Classic Digital
Records was founded in 1987, and in 1995 he created the popular Clay Dog
Records label. In 1995, Clay Dog released StreetDreams, a recording
of Chicago street musicians that captured hearts across the country and
was featured by NPR's All Things Considered,
ABC's Good Morning America, the Chicago Tribune and the Associated
Press.
Mr. Muenzer produced over 70 well-known recordings. In 1993, he produced
a recording with Itzhak Perlman and the Chicago Symphony that spent five
weeks at the top of the Classical Billboard Chart. In 1994, he produced
the Mozart and Beethoven Wind Quintets with Daniel Barenboim and members
of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic. This record
won the 1995 Grammy for Best Chamber Performance.
CD Syndications’ Cydne Gillard
Cydne is CD Syndications newest member, deftly guiding the marketing of all of the company’s radio offerings. Under Cydne’s direction, the distribution for Composers Datebook has increased from 250 stations to over 280. She has volunteered with the Marlboro Music Festival and worked with the Allegheny Music Fest, Vermont Bach Festival, Arkansas Festival, Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, Livermore Symphony, and the Morse Wind Ensemble at Yale University. In the mid nineties, she organized the California Summer Arts Chamber Music workshop into a lasting successful educational institution. Cydne will be taking on the daunting challenge masterminding the complicated production and marketing schedules of the newly recreated On Stage at the Library of Congress.