I have an aunt who sends me clippings — articles about music from all kinds of sources. This week she sent me an article by David Schiff with the title printed above. It was from the New York Times, dated May 31, 1998.
It could have been written today.
Yet another station is dropping classical music from its schedule — this one in Erie, Pa. WMCE-FM, a noncommercial station operated by Mercyhurst College, will drop classical in February in favor of an all-jazz format, reports GoErie.com.
We have lots of news to fill you in on, and plenty of it is bad, but here’s a wonderful report from American Public Media:
Classical South Florida announced … it will use a $250,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to build listener support for its all-classical public radio station in Miami and West Palm Beach…
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