Rani Schloss

Programming Manager

Rani Schloss was first heard on the radio when she was 11 years old and called her local oldies station (Oldies 100.3 in Washington, D.C.) to complain about Christmas music. They put her call on the air, and she was mortified.

Since then, she has taken a more behind-the-scenes approach to radio. While studying Music Composition and Education Studies at Brandeis University, she produced and hosted two radio shows, was bit by "the radio bug," and interned at WCRB for a year.

As Programming Manager, she now runs the day-to-day operations of the station, including overseeing on-air programming, managing social media accounts, training new air staff, and serving as liaison between the engineering and on-air staffs to minimize "technical difficulties." 

The Girl with the Schumann Tattoo

By • Oct 3, 2016
Sheet music for "Frauenliebe und Leben"

I’d always been part of the choir, not out front as a soloist. I’d always been fiercely independent. Singing Schumann’s “Frauenliebe und -leben” for a chamber music class forced me to step outside of my comfort zone and taught me things I never could have imagined.

Tragedy and Hope: Two Sides of the Hallway

By • Jul 12, 2016

A friend who works in the next office over at PRI's The World told me last weekend that his job is to report the news, and my job is to help people escape from it.

Bumping into classical

By • May 26, 2016

Over the past couple of years I've run into classical music in some of the most unexpected places.

Music in Shakespeare's Plays

By • Apr 19, 2016

Though not too many records exist of the music that was used during performances of Shakespeare's plays, we have a pretty good idea of what it would have sounded like.

Collectif9's Volksmobiles

By • Mar 22, 2016

...in which great graphic design does its job, and gets me to listen to an album that was in the middle of a stack that was supposed to go straight into the library.

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