I have just attended YET ANOTHER marvelous evening of New Music thanks to John Schaefer. One night it's the Contact Series at the Met Museum, a few weeks ago it was Chernobyl folk songs at the Ukrainian Museum.
I have been listening to him at least since I first moved to the city in 1997. Schaefer FM is the BEST innovation of WNYC; I hope you guys are smart enough to figure out how to keep it as a PERMANENT part of your internet stream. The entire archive of New Sounds and Soundcheck should be played on its own channel, so that listeners can dip in and be surprised as I have been every night at 11 (and/or 2 in the afternoon.)
I would nominate him as the best propagator and backer of new music in New York City, USA and the world. At least my world.

Tammy Rose

Washington Heights