Tyler Alderson
Former Operations Manager, Host, ProducerHailing from the wilds of Harvard, Massachusetts, Tyler grew up listening to WCRB and galloping around the room to the William Tell Overture. His first foray into radio came at Carnegie Mellon University as a DJ and play-by-play sportscaster for the Carnegie Mellon Tartans (a team as formidable as their namesake fabric pattern). He ended up falling in love with the medium, and incorporated a radio documentary into his master's dissertation on traditional singing in Ireland. When not behind the microphone he can be found happily picking away on the banjo, to the chagrin of all within earshot.
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Tyler Alderson sits down with pianist Marc-André Hamelin to discuss his recent album of piano works by Gabriel Fauré. -
From "swinging the classics" to an iconic composer's surprising roots, these five musicians bridged the jazz-classical divide -
From fighting for equal pay, to playing a private show for Queen Victoria, to making Charles Dickens weep, these three composer-performers have stories and music worth celebrating. -
As Black History Month wraps up, we’re taking a look at some of the groundbreaking symphonies written by Black composers. -
Hearing the names J.S. Bach, J.C. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, and more can sound like alphabet soup - read on for the story of the Bach family and how so many of them became well-known composers. -
Gabriel Fauré shied away from the big, bombastic moments in favor of the intimate and intricate. On his 175th birthday, here’s a look at some of his most… -
Has Tom Brady written a symphony? Did Michael Jordan fight in a revolution? For Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, being a great athlete,… -
When does 5 come before 4, and 3 equal 1? In the sometimes-confusing numbering systems of classical music! Read on to find out why you should never have… -
In the depths of a fearsome epidemic that ravaged his community, a small-town German pastor wrote a hymn to bring his congregation hope. More than 400 years later, "Sleepers Awake" still comforts and inspires us, perhaps now more than ever before. -
“What’s with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields?”That was the first thing out of my uncle’s mouth when I got to his house. He’s an avid WCRB…
