Debra Lew Harder practiced medicine before following her dream to be a musician, which led her into radio and hosting the Met's live broadcasts.
. “She has a wonderful speaking voice, which is obviously part of it. She is also a very thoughtful interviewer of guests … She is very insightful in her commentary.”Harder brings considerable musical experience to her job: Prior to entering the world of radio, she was an accomplished pianist who studied at Ohio State University in the late 1980s and early ’90s.
“I took a detour into medicine,” said Harder, whose father is a retired anesthesiologist. “My parents, being quite wise, said, ‘Well, you’ve got to follow a career path where you can actually earn a living.’” “I remember having the audition over there in the music building at Ohio State,” she said. “There was a committee of people and he just pointed at me and said, ‘I will take her.’ It was great.”Her parents were a bit “bewildered,” she said, by her career detour.
“All the other hosts were male,” Harder said. “Radio is an auditory medium, so they needed a female voice. I went and auditioned, and I actually had to learn how to work the console, the mics, all the mechanics of hosting a radio show and engineering it.” “I had a wonderful Saturday morning program that I curated called ‘Saturday Morning Classical Coffee House,’ where I mixed lots of different kinds of classical music from very contemporary to early music,” she said.Then, two years ago, Harder learned of the departure of Met radio host Mary Jo Heath. “I just threw my hat in the ring,” she said.
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