David Randolph (December 21, 1914 – May 12, 2010) was an American conductor, music educator and radio host.
The author and neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote of him: His passion for the every aspect of the music was evident.
This was a point which he brought out with great eloquence in his beautiful book, This Is Music: A Guide to the Pleasure of Listening, and he would often mention it before a performance of his annual Christmas Oratorio or the great Passions he conducted at Easter.
He would mention it, too, when conducting his favorite Requiem Masses by Brahms, Verdi, or Berlioz—all of whom, he would remind the audience, were atheists (as he himself was).
[4] As part of its regular efforts to document living treasures of the New York performing arts community, the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of the New York Public Library recorded a 100-minute video oral history interview with the 95-year David Randolph (in conversation with Gerald Greland) on March 25, 2010, which would turn out to be his final interview before he succumbed to illness.