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The Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) is an outstanding group that supports and advocates for live arts performances.  They want your opinion about which classical artists to present at their annual conference in 2013. Your opinion has broader implications than just which performers should perform at the conference.  All of the leading arts presenters in the country participate in some way with APAP, so this survey can influence which performers get the gigs nationally in the future. Here’s the info for the survey: Dear Colleague, A reminder to you that we would love to … Continue Reading

The charming town of Collingwood, on Lake Huron Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada (three hours north of Buffalo) is gaining a classical station.  The announcement comes from Bayshore Broadcasting. Most of the station’s programming will originate in Toronto with 24-hours a week [sic] of content directed specifically to listeners in Collingwood and surrounding area. Here’s an update: The station will be managed by MZ Media Inc. which operates Classical 96.3 in Toronto and Classical 103.1 in Cobourg.  The company has two years to start the programming, but they don’t have a frequency … Continue Reading

Lorin Levee, the wonderful principal clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has died at age 61 of a blood disorder.  A very sad day.  Scanning the Dial shares in sending condolences to his family and to his orchestra colleagues. Colorado Public Radio has officially purchased classical KVOD, although CPR has been operating the station under an LMA since 2008.  The purchase price was $8.364 million. It doesn’t play in Peoria!  Pjstar.com reports that HD Radio is going nowhere, which we all knew.  Despite that, many stations dump their classical broadcasting onto HD channels and pretend that people will still … Continue Reading

We’ve seen this story again and again.  City officials or store owners want to keep teens from hanging out so they play classical music to chase them off.   If the kids had music education in school they’d probably like the music and it wouldn’t deter them.  This latest idiotic example is in the western Washington town of Sequim (pronounced SQUIM), where city officials want to clear young people out of the city transit center. Three points jumped out at me from the article on Peninsula Daily News.com.  One is that the kids have been hanging … Continue Reading