Topic: MEDIA
Performance Today, June 5, 2006 ? Beethoven's First Symphony, dedicated to Baron Gottfried Van Swieten, came at age 29. Fittingly, it was the dawn of a new century. ...LINK to complete story
Friday, 2 June 2006
Listeners are also turning to internet streamers Now Playing: Weak audience and income blamed in FM classical fade Topic: MEDIA
Once pubradio’s dominant format, classical music is still widespread on the airwaves. As of fall 2002, 340 public stations aired a "very significant" amount of classical each week, according to a Minnesota Public Radio report on the genre....LINK
Thursday, 1 June 2006
Topic: MEDIA
Connecticut Public Radio WNPR-FM (90.5) is dropping most of its classical music programs in favor of news and information programming, effective today.
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Saturday, 27 May 2006
Topic: MEDIA
The Cleveland Orchestra and National Public Radio have agreed that NPR will broadcast 13 Cleveland Orchestra concerts from the last three years through its Performance Today, SymphonyCast, and World of Opera programs....LINK
Thursday, 25 May 2006
Topic: MEDIA
TYLER — A group of Tyler-area arts supporters and classical music listeners decided Wednesday to form a committee in opposition to a proposed sale of Kilgore College's classical music station KTPB....LINK
Wednesday, 24 May 2006
Topic: MEDIA Martin Bookspan... Is to Leave 'Live From Lincoln Center' After 30 Years ...LINK
Tuesday, 16 May 2006
Topic: MEDIA
Few composers have generated as much speculation and controversy—both musical and psychoanalytical—as Robert Schumann.
Beginning in summer 2006, Park University is underwriting a 13-part musical documentary “The World of Robert Schumann” for worldwide broadcast on the WFMT Radio Network. ...LINK to complete story
Sunday, 14 May 2006
Topic: MEDIA
In a dazzling speech that captivated the Royal Philharmonic Society awards on Tuesday, award-winning writer and broadcaster Armando Iannucci argued that we should stop being scared of expressing what great works mean to us ...LINK to complete story
Thursday, 11 May 2006
Topic: MEDIA
2006-07 Met Radio Broadcasts to Include New Intermission Features, World & Production Premieres ...LINK to complete story
Sunday, 7 May 2006
Topic: MEDIA
All Things Considered, May 6, 2006 ? Downloading classical music is on the uptick. When the BBC offered all nine Beethoven symphonies, they expected 25,000 requests. They got 1.3 million. The classical music industry has taken notice.....ENTER NPR SITE: Click Listen
Friday, 5 May 2006
Now Playing: in BOSTON Topic: MEDIA
Harvard radio station WHRB-FM (95.3 FM) will broadcast the complete works of Mozart beginning Monday at 11 a.m. and running through May 18. That's 10 days of Mozart around the clock. ...LINK to complete story
Wednesday, 3 May 2006
A Sour Note on Modern Times Now Playing: By Tony Long Topic: MEDIA
"The station chose to play Ludwig's scene by the brook as if it were written as a stand-alone piece of music." ...LINK to complete story
Topic: MEDIA
The first ever BBC Music Magazine Awards were presented today, Wednesday 15 March, at a celebratory event in London attended by leading figures from the classical music industry. James Naughtie, of Radio 4's Today programme, hosted the event. ...LINK to complete story
Monday, 1 May 2006
Topic: MEDIA
Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending has come top of a poll to find the nation's favourite British classical work.
The English composer's work pushed Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor and Variations on an Original Theme into second and third place. ...LINK to complete story
Sunday, 30 April 2006
Topic: MEDIA
The voices and music of a Metropolitan Opera performance in New York traveled to Kilgore one day in February 1991, though few people likely heard it.
The test broadcast of fledgling public radio station KTPB FM 88.7 aired a few days before the first official show on the Kilgore College-owned station. It marked the beginning of 15 years of broadcasting classical music, jazz and local news and sports
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