He attended Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio and Columbia University where he studied music history with composer Douglas Moore.
During his seven years as host, he interviewed hundreds of musicians, including Aaron Copland, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Fiedler, Robert Shaw, and Isaac Stern.
Particularly notable are his eight Frank Zappa interviews, along with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, R. Crumb, Dexter Gordon, Jackson Browne, Pierre Boulez, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Bill Evans, John McLaughlin, Judy Collins, and Roy Orbison.
(ARTS & ROOTS FORUM) featuring Steve Reich, Murray Mednick, Terry Riley, Sandra Tsing Loh, Stacy Keach, and others in a seven-year run.
As an actor, he has worked with director Norman Corwin and with Jeff von der Schmidt and Southwest Chamber Music in Samuel Beckett's Cascando at Zipper Hall in Los Angeles.