An article in Sunday’s Evansville Courier & Press highlights the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra’s embrace of Web tools to reach out to its audience. The orchestra’s music director, Alfred Savia, has launched a blog, for example, and the orchestra now has a Facebook page. It also plans to offer MP3 downloads of some of its performances.
Stations
KCSN Adds Triple A to Mix
From Kathy Gronau in L.A…
KCSN Adjusts Format. “In an effort to bring greater consistency and a higher profile to our Arts and Roots programming format, KCSN has made the decision that its weekday evening programming, effective immediately, now will feature the acoustic music of poets and social commentators spanning the late 20th Century into the present,” emailed Fred Johnson, general manager of California State University, Northridge radio station.
Commentator decries WGCU decision
A music teacher in Naples, Fla., sounds off in the Naples Daily News about WGCU’s decision to drop classical music from its analog FM signal: Telling people that they will need to buy a special converter to receive classical music that is being outsourced from Minnesota is not a solution. That approach only helps to promote the idea that classical music is an elitist form of entertainment. I think that Tardiff and the management of WGCU have succumbed to the lowest common denominator, money, which always wins out in the end. But … Continue Reading
Baltimore station seeks a leader
WBJC-FM, the all-classical public radio station in Baltimore, is looking for a new general manager. “[T]he General Man[a]ger is responsible for providing leadership, vision, planning and direction to Maryland’s oldest and largest public radio station, with approximately 200,000 listeners in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan markets,” says the station’s website. WBJC is licensed to the Baltimore City Community College. We weren’t aware that the station’s previous g.m. had left, but we’ll see if we can find out where he’s gone, what he’s up to and if he’d like to chat it with us a … Continue Reading