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Rathe's radio career began with broadcasts from his basement to an unwary suburban neighborhood. He graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in television-radio in 1971, and after a flirtation with television sports (holding cue cards for New York Mets broadcasts from Shea Stadium) he began working as a freelance producer. He joined National Public Radio to produce live events and the Folk Festival, USA series, pioneering NPR's tradition of broadcasting American folk, jazz and new music alongside of its classical programming. During its eight-year run, the series presented a variety of "firsts," including the introduction of Cajun music to a wide national audience and the premier national broadcast of Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion.

Rathe also built NPR’s Contemporary Music/Events Unit, creating Jazz Alive!, American Music Sampler, a live broadcast of The White House Jazz Festival, and the Prix Italia-winning opera-buffa Civilization and its Discontents. Recognition received by the unit's programs included the Peabody and Headliner awards, a Grammy nomination, and jazz's "Golden Feather."

In 1981, Rathe founded Murray Street Enterprise, a production and distribution company, specializing in radio and audio projects. More than a dozen awards have honored Murray Street's productions, including One People, Many Voices, Future Forward, The Territory of Art, NPR's annual broadcast of The Paul Winter Solstice Celebration. HEAT with John Hockenberry won the 1990 Peabody award. Jazz From Lincoln Center with Ed Bradley won the Peabody in 1997. Rathe was honored among a group of NPR Cultural producers receiving the National Medal of the Arts in 2001.

Along with Jazz From Lincoln Center, Murray Street has recently created Honky Tonks, Hymns, and the Blues for NPR’s Morning Edition, a collaboration with PVP Media and Artemis Media. Past productions include American Splendor: The Radio Special, So Many Stars, a broadcast featuring singer Kathleen Battle, a live airing of Yo Yo Ma, Mark O'Connor and Edgar Meyer's Appalachia Waltz for Sony Classical, a companion CD to Columbia Record's Grammy Award winning Miles Davis/Gil Evans reissue, and the series This Week in Jazz featuring Stanley Crouch. Rathe has also served as a production manager and Director of the International Pavilion at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

Rathe's own CD production credits include: the recent Maya Angelou/Wynton Marsalis collaboration, Music, Deep Rivers in My Soul, the Melton Foundation’s 3-CD set, Jewish Music, Between East and West, three CD's featuring the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (Sony Music), two CD's by Sweet Honey in the Rock (Rounder Records), and two CD's by The Flirtations. His various album projects have received three Grammy nominations.

More than 200 hours of Murray Street's programs are included in the collection of the Museum of Television and Radio and in the Performing Arts Division of the New York Public Library. This work has been supported in part by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund.

David Goren   

Co-Producer Jazz at Lincoln Center / Technical Director

David Goren started out in radio at age fifteen on WCRP, the voice of Camp Ramah in the Poconos, where his late Saturday night show 'Jazz 74' radiated to campers with a taste for Maynard Ferguson, Chuck Mangione and Frank Zappa. David went on to mix live performances at the Smithsonian Institution in the 1980's, and then embarked on a hectic career as a freelance recording and post production engineer for Pacifica Radio, NPR's New York News Bureau, Monitor Radio, Simon and Schuster Audio, Afropop Worldwide, Jazz Profiles and many more. Since 1996, David has managed post-production for Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio (JALC) . In 2000 he became the writer and co-producer of JALC. As a producer and writer, David's work has been featured on Lost and Found Sound, Crossroads, Pacifica Radio, Afropop Worldwide, On the Media, Symphony Space Live, and JALC. Inveterate explorer of the ionosphere, David is currently working on a documentary series about shortwave radio, and a recurring podcast feature called "Shortwaveology."

David lives in a log cabin in the wilderness of Flatbush, Brooklyn with Ilene Tannenbaum and their 10 year old son, Abe, author of many graphic novels including "Evil Lurks," and "Into the Gargoyle's Beak."

Lauren Krenzel   

Senior Editor / Producer

Lauren Krenzel came to Murray Street from WBAI and the Shakespeare Liberation Front to produce books on tape. She went on to help create the SportsBand Network and direct our Ellis Island audio project and installations. She was the first producer of WNYC’s Selected Shorts and also of The Poet’s Voice with Blair Brown. She produced our American Splendor radio documentary and is senior editor of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Krenzel is also the producer of WHYY’s weekly Been There, Done That.

Matthew Long-Middleton   

Marketing Manager

Matthew Long-Middleton has been involved in radio since 2003. Hosting a show on his college radio station, he quickly realized the influence, intimacy and joys of radio. Rising up through the ranks, he became assistant manager of WKCO in 2005 and co-station manager in 2006.

In the summer of 2006 Matthew was part of the infamous Murray Street internship, working as the full-time production intern. There he established himself working on projects such as Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio, W.C. Handy’s Blues, and Symphony Space Live.

In 2007 Matthew was awarded distinction by Kenyon College for his comprehensive senior exercises: a 45 minute video documentary focusing on a shopping center called Easton, on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio. Matthew soon after graduated cum laude from Kenyon College. After a brief stint as a short order cook in exotic Gambier, Ohio he now has the pleasure of returning back to Murray Street as the Marketing Manager.

In addition to working at Murray Street, Matthew has done freelance radio production and his work has been featured on Chicago Public Radio’s local news program

Eight Forty-Eight.

Andrew Rosenblum   

Webmaster

Andrew Rosenblum began his career in broadcasting as a college student at New York's WKCR-FM, as the DJ of a zydeco program called "The Gulf Coast Squeezebox." Unfortunately, he took a summer job back home in California, and returned to discover that his slot had been taken over by the program director's girlfriend. That was his introduction to the cutthroat world of music journalism.

He came to us from Columbia University, playing baritone sax in a band called the El- (now Ex-) Caminos. After working for a dotcom for a year, and two seasons at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Rosenblum returned to grad school in American Literature at UCLA. The recently-minted PhD and Yusef Lateef-enthusiast moonlights as master of murraystreet.com, and has written for Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio on the subjects of Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives, and the early history of jazz in Detroit and Los Angeles. In the realm of print (not that he "privileges the logos" or anything, as he learned to say assuredly in grad school), he has written for such publications as Mother Jones, Slate, and the New York Observer, and has reviewed contemporary jazz records by Dave Douglas, David Murray, and Roy Campbell, among many others.

Alexa Lim   

Associate Producer Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio

Alexa Lim started her media career in scientific academic publishing, where she copyedited pharmaceutical articles and researched Geosciences and environmental topics. She has also been a freelance writer for the environmental consulting firm Green Order and a contributing music writer for Popmatters.com.

Throughout her time in publishing, she always retained an interest in radio. She made the jump from print to radio with an internship at StoryCorps, where she managed the StoryKit Audio Program and was able to eavesdrop on hundreds of stories. She joined Murray Street as an intern helping with production, marketing and all else. She has been fortunate to continue on coordinating production for Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio and has worked on the Independent Minds series, Symphony Space Live and all other projects that make their way through Murray Street.

Margaret Bresnahan  

Production Coordinator

Carrying on the fine Murray Street tradition of Minnesota-born, Brooklyn-based employees, Margaret joined the Murray Street team in June of 2009. Margaret grew up with the sounds of independent, public radio flooding the kitchen in the morning and simmering in the background while her parents cooked dinner. Her attachment to public radio grew to an infatuation during the year she spent studying at the University of Edinburgh; she endlessly listened to NPR and PRI podcasts, first for comfort and entertainment, then as a source of inspiration and instruction—a sort of clinic in radio production. Since then, Margaret has explored her love of narration and documentation in a range of mediums, working at both literary and magazine publishing houses (Graywolf Press, Granary Books, Edible Boston, and Salamander) before settling into her nook at Murray Street. Armed with a degree in English Literature from Smith College, Margaret plans to find her place in Radioland, traversing the airwaves and surveying soundscapes until she finds the right frequency. When she's not at Murray Street—dipping her fingers into everything from the Gospel of Arizona Dranes to the Gospel of ProTools—she can be found at any free event in the city.

Adam Pogoff   

Production Associate

Adam’s musical tastes are wide-ranging, however his penchant for Gypsy jazz, Mahler, Texas swing, and Rajasthani brass bands has alienated him from all but the most soulful audiences. When not attending a concert he can be found with friends at a landmark Russian-style sauna in Manhattan’s East Village.

Adam was weaned on the clean water of Minnesota and the fresh sounds of Minnesota Public Radio. He currently lives inside a large antique cabinet radio somewhere in Brooklyn and is working on bridging the terrestrial-digital divide as an independent producer.