Robert Sherman, in Memoriam

2019 Walter Damrosch Award

   
both photos © Steve J. Sherman

Best known for his long years at WQXR and Fordham University's WFUV, Robert Sherman produced and hosted weekly series at both stations, respectively, the Young Artists Showcase, for 45 years on WQXR, and his multiple award-winning folk program, Woody's Children, for 30 years on WQXR plus 24 years on 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 hosted concerts and moderated panels for many cultural organizations, among them the Brevard Music Festival, Salon De Virtuosi, Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning, Stecher and Horowitz Foundation, Symphony of Westchester and the Yonkers Philharmonic. He 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. He was a great friend to classical competition winners, including many winners the Musicians Club of New York's Koussevitzky Young Artist Awards, introducing them and their music to his broad audiences.