> 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
>
--- On Sun, 5/25/14, eugene hayhoe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: eugene hayhoe <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Public radio was Re: Future of CDs
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Sunday, May 25, 2014, 9:09 AM
> " 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"
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> 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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