I assume you’re reading ArtsJournal every day. If you’re not, you might as well be missing a body part.
Last week, ArtsJournal Editor Douglas McLennan (a Seattleite — yay!) and his fantastic staff posted an article from a British website that says we’re not as dumb as we think we are. We just don’t want our classical music presented in a stuffy way. If you want to feel great about classical radio, I hope you’ll read the whole article. It’s brief.
Anybody have any money? The Indiana Gazette reports that Northeast Indiana Public Radio (NIPR) is selling its three classical stations.
The organization plans to sell WBNI-FM – 94.1, WCKZ-FM – 91.3 and W204BF-FM – 88.7, [general manager] Joan Brown said.
If your station airs Performance Today from American Public Media, you can hear the piece John Williams wrote for the Inauguration. Don’t you think it’s fantastic that President Obama (I love the sound of that) chose classical music for the featured piece at the Inauguration itself?
On this historic day, leading up to an even more historic day, I was just thinking about where we’ve been and where we’re going in our narrow slice of American life called Classical Music Radio. Those of us who are already committed to the beauty and life-affirming power of classical music know what our art form can do for people’s lives if they get the chance to learn about it and appreciate it.