" I wish I could recall the name of that came
> from one of the public radio networks and, each week, featured vintage jazz
> and big band recordings - I recall one whole episode was just devoted to
> V-Discs"
I'm guessing this might be the show:
http://annarborchronicle.com/2008/11/09/a-golden-age-of-jazz-revisited/
A Golden Age of Jazz Revisited
BY HAZEN SCHUMACHER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5MZ4XD_AIc
Used to listen 'until I went out and bought the records that I liked.'
Gene
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On Sun, 5/25/14, Frank Strauss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Public radio was Re: Future of CDs
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, May 25, 2014, 12:15 AM
I also like the ability
to change genre of music with SiriusXM. The OTR
station definitely isn't particularly
enlightened, but given good fortune
in the
luck of the programming draw, it can sure help a long car
trip be
more enjoyable. I force my wife to
negotiate with them every year to get a
better rate. She out did herself this
year-the full version for both of
our cars
for $100 a year each. I used to give more than that to the
local
FM Classical NPR station. I went
over and manned a phone during pledge
time. Now it seems like almost every week
they take away the music so they
can have a
fund raising event. No doubt they are doing a Memorial Day
fund
raiser. They do Mother's Day and
Valentine's Day and Christmas and
Thanksgiving, and God knows what else. The
scripted repetitive nonsense
they broadcast
during these events makes one assume they think we are
all
morons. If you added up all the
regular full Monty fund drives, the
special
event fund drives and the 10 second commercials, there is
far more
down time, with little or no music,
than any of the commercial stations.
Both of
the local NPR stations make you listen to 20 seconds of
commercial
every time you tune in the
streaming version. I often wondered if the
FM
stations couldn't let me pay an
annual fee, and then allow me to listen
without the fundraising drivel. Maybe
something that accesses the extra
band
width, like their service for the visually impaired. I
have also
wished that they would spend less
money on their syndicated programming,
and
just play classical music, maybe from their own library,
like they used
to. Interesting to note that
Robert Aubry Davis, one of the XM Sirius
Symphony Hall announcers, used to be at our
local station in upstate New
York. I am very
pessimistic about the future of classical FM in my area,
and I guess I wouldn't miss them much.
Too bad.
On
Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Randy A. Riddle <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> I listened to public
radio for many years. I think what happened was that
> it lost track of its original vision to
educate.
>
> The
public radio stations in my area are basically running many
of the same
> talk or music series that
have been around since the 1980s. There doesn't
> seem to be anything there I've not
heard before or seen around the
>
Internet.
>
> For me,
public radio was at its best in the 1970s when it acted as a
kind
> of curator for the best or most
interesting in what was happening in
>
serious music or the arts. It was the place you would turn
to to hear new
> classical works or new
recordings of classical music, experiments in radio
> drama, or what was happening in music
scholarship.
>
> A
good example is a weekly show I wish I could recall the name
of that came
> from one of the public
radio networks and, each week, featured vintage jazz
> and big band recordings - I recall one
whole episode was just devoted to
>
V-Discs.
>
> At other
times, my local public radio stations featured regular
broadcasts
> of classic Old Time Radio -
Suspense, the Great Gildersleeve, Jack Benny
> and other programs.
>
> Sure, much of this
material is available now on the Internet or satellite
> radio stations. Public radio could find
its voice again by being a curator
> and
gateway into what's worth my time, rather than being
either background
> classical Muzak for a
day at the office or offering the "comfort food"
of
> "Prairie Home
Companion". It's just stale.
>
> I like Sirius XM
because it allows me to sample genres of music that I
> don't know much about or listen deeper
into a genre catalogue to figure out
>
what I might like or not like - the same thing that public
and college
> radio used to do for me
many years ago.
>
>
The OTR channel is a little conservative for my taste,
repeating many of
> the same "war
horses" that I've heard many times before, but at
least it's
> something.
>
> Randy
>
>
--
Frank B Strauss, DMD
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