In his nearly three decades on the radio in Chicago, Carl Grapentine, the dean of American classical music radio announcers, has shared his passion, joy and knowledge of classical music with millions of listeners in a gentle, calm and loving manner. During the many years I was on the air with him during pledge drives I would watch in continuing amazement as wave after wave of phone calls flooded into the station in answer to his calm but impassioned requests for support. Hats off and bravo to Welz and Nick at Ravinia for honoring this gentle giant who has given so much to Chicago.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: As a parting gift to Michael Ferro, tronc paid out its former chairman\u2019s entire three-year, $15 million \u201cconsulting fee\u201d in a single payment, it was disclosed Wednesday. \u201cThe company fully expensed the $15.0 million contract in the first quarter,\u201d tronc reported to investors, resulting in a net loss of $14.8... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17981"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17994,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981\/revisions\/17994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}