Outside of his business career, William Mackey enjoys a widely varied assortment of activities and pursuits. As a member of WWUH Radio 91.3 FM, a public alternative radio station operated by the University of Hartford, he serves as a volunteer classical music announcer. He was host of — the Friday edition of "Evening Classics" — from May 2003 until May 2007. This program was focused on twentieth-century and contemporary chamber music, as well as music for solo instrument and voice. During the course of these more than 200 broadcasts, virtually all of the major string quartet cycles composed in the twentieth-century were played on WWUH Radio. There is probably no other music program that can make a similar claim in the exploration of this engaging and sometimes challenging music. You can view extracts of William Mackey’s final broadcast in the current series of "What You Will" at YouTube.com by searching for WWUH.
city
West Hartford
state/country
CT, US
time
May 1975 - present
college
Harvard Business School '72
Finance - M.B.A.
college
Imperial College London '69
Production Technology - M.Sc., D.I.C.
college
Imperial College London '68
Mechanical Engineering - B.Sc.(Eng.), A.C.G.I.
employer
Advanced Adhesive Systems, Inc.
position
Manager of Administration
description
Engineered Adhesives, Sealants and Coatings
time
Jul 2004 - present
music
John Adams, Elliott Carter, Philip Glass, John Harbison, Steve Reich, Ned Rorem, Joan Tower, Julia Wolfe, Frank Zappa, Osvaldo Golijov, Ástor Piazzolla, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Pierre Boulez, Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Alfred Schnittke, Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, Ernst von Dohnányi, Leos Janácek, Bohuslav Martinu, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Alexander Zemlinsky, Richard Strauss, Paul Hindemith, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ernest Bloch, Frederick Delius, Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Gilbert and Sullivan, Stephen Sondheim, Adam Guettel.
artists
Audra McDonald, Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Magdalena Kozená, Anna Netrebko, Plácido Domingo, Juan Diego Flórez, Ian Bostridge, Thomas Hampson, Bryn Terfel, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Arditti Quartet, Emerson String Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Schoenberg Quartet, Ethel, eighth blackbird, Ensemble interContemporain, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
movies
Touch of Evil, Iron Man, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Paris je t'aime, A Fistful of Dollars, Sweeney Todd, Seven Samurai, Michael Clayton, Blade Runner, Big Night, Lucie Aubrac, There Will be Blood, An Inconvenient Truth, Redacted, Atonement, Honeydripper, How to Cook for Your Life, No Country for Old Men, City Lights, Les Brodeuses, Lust Caution, Le Doulos, 3:10 to Yuma, The Earrings of Madame de..., Lady Chatterley, Brand Upon the Brain!, Ratatouille, After the Wedding, Triad Election, La Vie en Rose, The Valet, The Lives of Others, Mafioso, Casino Royale, Notes on a Scandal, The Queen, Andrei Rublev, Blades of Glory, Shortbus, The Illusionist, Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor: The Last Show, The Devil Wears Prada, Baraka, Inside Man, Happy Feet, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Gilda, Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Les Triplettes de Belleville, 2046, In the Mood for Love, Rififi, Amélie.
tv shows
Great Performances, Masterpiece Theater, NOVA, Live from Lincoln Center, Mystery!, America's Ballroom Challenge.
actors
Julianne Moore, Gretchen Mol, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Cate Blanchett, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Tommy Lee Jones, Harrison Ford, Robert Downey Jr, Gérard Depardieu, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai.
