Annie Bergen
Narrator
Annie Bergen is the midday host at Classical New York, 105.9FM, WQXR. Her classical radio career began in New York City on WNCN and continued on WQXR in 2004. In between, she was an award winning arts reporter for Bloomberg Radio and Television. An avid music lover, her interests include jazz, dance and world music. Annie has been featured on broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. As a voice artist, she and can be heard on underwriting on WNYC, on audio guides at the Metropolitan Museum, and announcing stops on the number 7 subway line in NYC.
Annie grew up an Air Force brat in various cities in Europe and the USA and attended Boston College. An eclectic interest in music and the arts keeps her out and about at the latest theater and performing arts events.
I am 85 and have been listening toWQXR since the 1950s.An announcer of that era sounded just like Annie Bergin. I know it can’t be her. Do you know who Im talking about?
Am I the first to bring this up??I was originally from Brooklyn and still live on this Long Island. 55 yrs in Smithtown NY
Why did you announce today, Feb 22 at 12:52 PM after playing a transcription for guitar of a Domenico Scarlatti harpsichord sonata, that Domenico Scarlatti wrote “hundreds of piano sonatas”? Maybe you are not aware that this was an egregious error? In addition, I am curious to know why the radio station never plays, for over two years that I and orher listeners have noticed, harpsichord music on the harpsichord? The announcers even omit the word harpsichord from the names of pieces, calling them keyboard pieces, or keyboard concerti, this is the first time I have heard of harpsichord sonatas being called piano sonatas. I would so appreciate if you explain, as this is very upsetting