On the next Saint Paul Sunday:

What would it be like to hear the Juilliard String Quartet perform in your living room?  Or to invite violinist Joshua Bell over for brunch and Bach?  Each week, Saint Paul Sunday host Bill McGlaughlin opens his studio to the world's best classical artists. The series' signature blend of superb performance and down-to-earth conversation gives listeners intimate access to how music is created at the highest level.

Great chamber music is open to everyone, and McGlaughlin and his guests celebrate this accessibility with exuberance.  The series' style is unique to public radio.  Saint Paul Sunday's distinct approach has won it a weekly national audience of nearly a half-million listeners and a George Foster Peabody Award.

Each week since its inception in 1980, Saint Paul Sunday host Bill McGlaughlin has invited listeners into the studio where he brings musical performances of the highest order down to earth for all who tune in. Unafraid to ask the most basic questions, Bill reflects and cajoles, translates and turns pages — anything to illuminate the music-making that takes place each week on the program. "If I had been able to imagine this program as a kid," he says, "I think I would have been in ecstasy at the idea of having the whole wide world of music to run around in, and best of everything, to be able to bring my friends along."

Bill McGlaughlin has served as an educator, as a performer (trombonist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Pittsburgh Symphony), and as a conductor — seven years as Associate Conductor with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra — followed by periods as music director of orchestras in Eugene, Tucson and San Francisco. Most recently, he served a 12-year engagement as music director of the Kansas City Symphony. Bill has also been active with PBS, the BBC, and is now in his second season as co-host of the chamber music program, Center Stage From Wolftrap. In 1998 he signed a contract with Subito Music, which now publishes all of his work.

Airs:  4 p.m. Sunday on KPAC and KTXI
Website:  saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org