My favorite anecdote had to do with a friend who walked into an auto parts store and heard the show playing on the radio. She looked around and just saw these two geezers in Caterpillar caps behind the counter, and asked, “So do you like classical music?” They said, “That’s not classical music, that’s ‘From the Top.’ “
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Update on KHFM
My email is humming with messages from Albuquerque about KHFM. I listened online for a couple of hours today, and though two hours in a week are not necessarily representative of a 24/7 station, I did hear some things worth commenting on.
In the Classical Radio News
A couple of brief news items:
Bravo to WFMT for supporting more live music with its new series, Live from the Morse. You can read about the new Morse Theater (and concert space) in the Chicago Suntimes.
Here’s my favorite quote from the article:
Classical MPR’s top programmer explains all those awards
Each year the Public Radio Program Directors Association hands out its Awards for Creative Excellence, recognizing stations for outstanding programming in public radio’s primary formats. Count on this: next year Classical Minnesota Public Radio will not be winning an ACE Award. That’s because MPR won its third consecutive ACE Award for classical programming this year, which disqualifies it from winning a fourth time.