{"id":14576,"date":"2023-07-26T11:53:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/?p=14576"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:14:19","slug":"its-about-capturing-the-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/its-about-capturing-the-essence\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It\u2019s about capturing the essence’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WESM and Delmarva Public Media music director Peter Solomon poses with his first-place award for “Best Specialty Storytelling” during the Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcaster’s Association Awards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In his career in radio, Peter Solomon<\/strong> has two passions \u2013 his love for jazz music and a penchant for utilizing the medium to tell captivating stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solomon, the on-air host and music director for Delmarva Public Media, received high praise for his storytelling prowess in addition to the DPM staff as they took home 13 Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association Awards, including \u201cBest in Show,\u201d at the annual event held in Ocean City earlier this summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solomon won first place for best specialty reporting for his series on last year\u2019s National Folk Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice to get recognition and it\u2019s recognition from a group of peer journalists,\u201d Solomon said. \u201cI think it\u2019s very meaningful and encouraging of the work that we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solomon\u2019s series featured four profiles of performers that included Irish-American violinist Eileen Ivers<\/a>, the Ukrainian folk ensemble Gerdan<\/a>, the sacred steel guitar gospel band The Campbell Brothers<\/a>, and Chincoteague cigar box guitar maker Stan Opiel<\/a>, providing an eclectic array of backgrounds and biographies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, how did Solomon narrow down his selection of clips to submit to the judging committee? The answer was a simple one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be honest with you \u2026 I didn\u2019t realize my stuff was being submitted,\u201d Solomon said with a laugh. \u201cBut it was a determination that our director of production and operations, Bryan Russo<\/strong>, and also our news director, Don Rush<\/strong>, made to enter the pieces. They felt that they were worth submitting to the AP Awards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rush, who himself took home five awards in the categories of best enterprise reporting, outstanding serious feature, and outstanding use of sound, said Solomon\u2019s entries enabled listeners to get a better understanding of the subject matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you think about the audio version of the medium, it\u2019s about capturing the essence of who the people are and that\u2019s what really shines beyond everything else,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you hear these people talk about the music, you can hear that enthusiasm and passion in their voice, and I think that\u2019s what captures it the best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rush said stories like Solomon\u2019s and others are things that are crucial in helping Delmarva Public Media shift to create long-term success in serving the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe try to cover stories and do material that is important to the medium, that\u2019s the important thing,\u201d he said. \u201cIn those four minutes we have daily and the hour we have on Fridays we try to dig into the meaning of the story and what it means to the community and to the people as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solomon, who said he never felt constricted telling stories with only sound, said that in the process of creating the stories, he wanted to match the legacy of storytelling heard on National Public Radio, from which Delmarva Public Media relays programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile I was doing those pieces, I was very cognizant of how am I going to tell this story not only with the words but the sounds that accompany each of these stories,\u201d he said. \u201cI love telling stories with sound, and I think it\u2019s a medium you can tell a story just as well in sound as you can with words or as you can in pictures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his career in radio, Peter Solomon has two passions \u2013 his love for jazz music and a penchant for utilizing the medium to tell captivating stories. Solomon, the on-air host and music director for Delmarva Public Media, received high praise for his storytelling prowess in addition to the DPM staff as they took home…Read more ‘It\u2019s about capturing the essence’<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1559,"featured_media":14584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-14576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14576"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=14576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}