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Radio My Way – Ron Della Chiesa

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Veteran Boston broadcaster Ron Della Chiesa has a new memoir out called Radio My Way: Featuring Celebrity Profiles from Jazz, Opera, the American Songbook and More.  You can read a profile of Ron on the WBUR blog here.  The book has a foreword by Brian Bell, Ron’s partner-in-crime at Tanglewood and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  You can read about the two of them and sound engineer Jim Donahue in this article about Tanglewood’s 20th anniversary. For the last two decades, Boston radio personality Ron Della Chiesa has been the “voice of Tanglewood,” hosting Friday and … Continue Reading

Woody Allen and Dick Cavett Dish on Radio

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An article on The Playlist reports on an absolutely wonderful chat by Woody Allen and Dick Cavett at the 92nd St. Y in NY.  It’s charming and nostalgic. Every Allen afficionado will recognize the filmmaker’s extensive use of old jazz standards and classical composers and he revealed that his love of music came from growing up with the radio playing constantly. “When I grew up radio was all we had,” Allen said. “And you turned it on, or at least in my family you did, when you woke up in the morning and when I … Continue Reading

Classical Radio is Rosy in Connecticut

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An absolutely wonderful post by Milton Moore about music in eastern Connecticut includes this tidbit: We even have more classical music on the radio now. In addition to the music programming on WNPR in Hartford, WSHU in Fairfield has spread its signal eastward, WMNR in Monroe has beefed up its broadcast area, and a commercial classical station, WCRI, popped up in Westerly. You can now channel-surf as you drive, something unheard of not long ago. It’s starting to feel like the best of times here. You can read the post on theday.com.  Mr. Moore expresses beautifully … Continue Reading

Radio – Still Not Dead

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World Radio Day is coming up next week, and it’s a good time to remember why we love radio so much.  We even love getting mad at the radio.  Today I heard a classical music station offer as a premium a CD of music  they wouldn’t air on the station — Quelle  Horreur!  Choral music! An article today on the blog The Eye by Ravenna Koenig is titled “Internet Killed the Radio Star – The myth behind the decline of radio.” A panel convened at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn on January 25 to discuss … Continue Reading

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