Davis Gloff

Davis makes classical music come alive, regaling listeners with stories describing the lives and exploits of the great, as well as little-known, composers.
While he loves classical music, one of his personal maxims is: “Never take yourself too seriously.”

A performer, classical pianist, lyric baritone, teacher, and announcer, Davis was one of the popular on-air hosts for many years at WQRS-FM in Detroit.
He has been associated with Michigan Opera Theater, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Piccolo Opera Company and many other orchestras and ensembles
throughout the United States. Audiences over the past 30 years also will recognize him for his detailed lectures on classical music and the performing arts.

Davis was born in Detroit, and has lived here all his life. Those who know him personally — and his radio and Internet listeners –
recognize his real commitment to the area and the people who live in the city and surrounding region. Another maxim he lives by comes from Gandhi, who said:
“You must BE the change you wish to SEE in the world.”

Pat McElroy

Listeners recognize Pat as one of those friendly, natural presences that just look and sound just right — like he’s always been there. Pat’s been there for quite a while, in fact — for the lastthree decades.

An accomplished actor, director and producer of professional theater, Pat is recognized throughout the metropolitan Detroit community for his work supporting classical music and the arts. Pat’s career in broadcasting has taken him from Detroit TV Channel 50 to radio station WDTM-FM (now WWWW-FM) to WQRS-FM, where he hosted the very popular “Folk Show” and weekend morning programs, and then on to AM powerhouse WJR for a decade as host of “Night Flight 76″ and “The Great Weekend.” Then he was back to WQRS Classical for another decade of Bach and Mozart.

One of Detroit’s best known stage performers, he has appeared at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit, the area’s premier professional theater; the University of Michigan, the University of Detroit-Mercy, Marygrove College, Wayne State University’s Hillberry Theatre, the Greenfield Village Theatre, the Cleary and the Elmwood Casino in Windsor and won a great deal of critical acclaim for his work. He also played Jesus in the award-winning film “Divine Mercy,” with Helen Hayes. As an actor, he has appeared in more than 200 plays. He has directed more than 50 stage plays. As a producer, he was responsible for more than 150 dramas and musicals. He has served as Supervisor of Fine Art for the City of Dearborn. Pat teaches classes in music appreciation and performing arts.

Dave Wagner of WQRS once wrote of him: “Pat McElroy is a very practical ‘dreamer’ who understands that ideas are not enough and that the business of ’show business’ must be attended to carefully. Over the years, one word occurs repeatedly in articles and critiques describing the work of Pat McElroy. That word is excellence.”

Jack Goggin

Jack enjoys connecting the world in which classical music was created with the present.

As host of the Classical Hollywood segment on WQRS-FM, Jack featured musical works created for the cinema and demonstrated how often the most moving part of the cinema results from the sounds. Memorable show themes included “Classical Navies,” music from nautical movies that made listeners almost feel the salt spray and the deck heaving beneath their feet; and “Classical Science Fiction,” which also focused on unique instruments created for that genre that helped listeners visualize what the future may hold.

Born in 1954 in Canton, Ohio, Jack grew up in Waterford Township, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Missouri, where he was a National Merit Scholar, in 1977. From 1978 to 1997, he was a program host and producer at WQRS-FM in Detroit, where he did the overnight show Monday through Friday, and his weekly show devoted to motion picture music. Jack also works at the Harmony House Classical Store in Royal Oak and for the Paint Creek Center for the Arts as a public relations
person. Jack and his wife, Gail, have a daughter, Liz.