http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/arts/music/15radio.html

R.

The NY music scene has changed sooooo much during my duration as a studying to be a singer / trying to be singer.

I can't believe even NYC can't harbor a full time classical radio station like WQXR but wow times they are a-changing!

Kidding, but really that sucks. Sucky sucky sucks.

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And I LOVES me some Georg Phillip.

sigh.........

Makes me think back umpty-ump years ago (just after high school - yanno, back before they had airplanes) when my beloved KFAC in LA started "downsizing" due to the creeping influence of advertising on the media. Here was THE flagship FM classical station for practically the entire Western US - they'd play practically ANYthing, INCLUDING operas and other vocal works.

Well, by the summer of my graduation, they could only play full-length symphonies after 11:00 at night; fast-forward a mere three years later, and ZOMG! - even at 2:00 a.m., because of all the fucking commercials, you could only hear EXCERPTED symphony MOVEMENTS played, NOT a full composition! Even with something as 'short' as, say, Beethoven's 1st, it'd be one movement, not all of 'em.

It was all downhill after that.

Luckily, the frequency got sold to one of the local Universitys who kept the classical format, and it's now known as "K-Mozart"; they DO play full works, yet even at that it's but a pale shadow of its former self.

Argh.
Now I'm all verklempt.

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-- I AM the people my parents warned me about. --

So where do I get my fix of recorder concerti?

TS

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

TS's Blog:http://tsvocaltech.blogspot.com

... would be online.

Specifically, KPFK or the NPR-affiliated KCRW down in the People's Republic of Sandy Monica - they seem to do more than their share of early baroque stuff (but it seems to be relegated to the early morning Left-Coast hours).

sigh.....

Yah.
Times'r tuff all over.


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-- I AM the people my parents warned me about. --

ABC Classic fm (that is Australian broadcast...

does still regularly play full symphs etc everyday... and you can listen on line...


http://www.abc.net.au/classic/

You can check program info and listen online from here..

Stu the crazy bass from down under


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