Live Webcast of the Final Concert of the Beaux Arts Trio

From American Public Media: Performance Today host Fred Child will be hosting a live Webcast tonight of the final American concert by the Beaux Arts Trio. Fred will host the concert live from the Ozawa Concert Hall at Tanglewood in Massachusetts. The concert takes place tonight at 8 p.m. ET. To access the live Webcast, go to www.performancetoday.org or www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93589600. The live Webcast is a co-production with NPR Music.org.

Classical Music in The Egg

I should have mentioned this earlier in the month, but I got caught up in the crummy news about KHFM in Albuquerque (see post from Aug. 14th). Check out this amazing classical music venue in Beijing called The Egg: From the website www.chinamusicradar.com, there’s a little blurb about Live Music at the Beijing Olympics If it’s classical music you’re after, look no further then The Egg (affectionately known as the National Centre for the Performing Arts). They have eleven confirmed events including notable foreign acts such as the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and … Continue Reading

Update On KHFM

If you haven’t seen the original post about KHFM in Albuquerque, scroll down to Aug. 10th. In the meantime, I’ve talked to various stakeholders, gruntled and disgruntled, and need to make a couple of corrections. First, it was American General Media’s local manager, Tim Gannon who did the actual firing, though the order apparently came down from the owners. More about them in a minute. Second, the reason winter ratings are down so drastically is that the transmitter was hit by lightning, and the station was off the air for six weeks between Feb. and May.

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