Perlich, Martin

Biographical Note

Writer, Producer and distinguished broadcaster, Martin Perlich, has hosted and produced the interview series, ARF!! (Arts & Roots Forum) which aired daily on Los Angeles public radio and featured major cultural figures, from Stacy Keach to Terry Riley to Sandra Tsing Loh to avant-garde playwright Murray Mednic, as well as dozens of arts figures: writers, directors, choreographers and musical figures from Jazz, Wolrd music and classical music.

From 2000-8 Perlich served as Program Director responsible for all programming of the Los Angeles public radio station, KCSN. In addition, he hosted an acclaimed daily classical and New Music show. His historic interview show, "Martin Perlich Interviews" featuring Leonard Bernstin, Frank Zappa, Pierre Boulz and hundreds more, was syndicated nationally by WCLV/Seaway productions.

Perlich's early work was in musicology. After studying with American composer, Douglas Moore at Columbia University, he was for seven years, Intermission Host of the internationally syndicated Cleveland Orchestra radio broadcasts.

His award-winning Martin Perlich Interviews was syndicated nationally and aired locally on public radio station, KCSN, where he was Program Director of, as well as classical Host and interviewer.

In the 1960s Perlich was a pioneer in "experimental radio" beginning in 1972 with KMET in Los Angeles. In 1975, Perlich became Creative Consultant of NBC "The Midnight Special." In the 1980s he developed and produced dramatic and musical programming at PBS's KCET in Los Angeles and WNET in New York, and a feature film, "The Trial of Ramona Africa" with Whoopie Goldberg for American Playhouse and Channel 4 in London.

From the guide to the Martin Perlich Interviews, 1965-, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Performing Arts Special Collections)