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…
Scanning the Dial has been nominated as “Best New Music Blog” (of 2008) by readers of Life’s a Pitch, an ArtsJournal blog about arts marketing — or at least one reader.
Here’s a rare chance to hear a lot of previously unavailable music by Canadian composers.
The Globe and Mail reports:
This week, the Canadian Music Centre launched Centrestreams, an audio-streaming service that makes the CMC’s collection of 8,000 recordings, by about 700 Canadian composers, available online at http://www.musiccentre.ca.
DavidsonNews.net reports that WDAV-FM, the classical public radio station in Davidson, N.C., is laying off a host and hiring two staffers devoted to corporate support. The story divulges a few details that, in particular, piqued my interest.