At ArtsJournal, Greg Sandow has been writing about social networking and classical music, which I hit on recently when I wrote about why and how classical stations should use Twitter.
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Classical Music: The Trickle-Down Effect?
You may have seen the article by Leon Botstein October 3rd in the Wall Street Journal Online: The Unsung Success of Classical Music. Botstein writes:
The heralding of the demise of classical music is based on flimsy evidence. The number of concert venues, summer festivals, performing ensembles and overall performances in classical music and opera has increased exponentially over the last four decades. There are currently nearly 400 professional orchestras in America, according to the League of American Orchestras,
Canadian critic assesses CBC; KBPS’s Allen on fundraising
Robert Everett-Green of the Toronto Globe and Mail reviews the revamped Radio 2 service from the CBC. I find his review more trustworthy than some other CBC critiques thanks to its even-handedness — it’s free of the vitriol that colored most assessments of the network’s new direction. Yet he’s not entirely satisfied, either.