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> > On May 18, 2014, at 7:44 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote: > > Who do you feel is/was an example of an intelligent announcer of classical > music? > > joe salerno > ​Waaal... One would have been myself, back in the heyday of classical music radio in Boston, the late fifties and early/mid sixties, when there were five stations, three of them full-time! The Boston style was marked by straight-forwardness (no cute-isms, no announcer improv) and excellent pronunciation. (There was even a pronouncing tape in circulation and we studied it.) WBCN (Boston Concert Network) headed a regional network: WNCN (New York), WHCN (Hartford) and two others that are lost to memory (mine) and not found on Wiki. One fine WBCN announcer from back then, Ron della Chiesa, is still on the air here! Another one, John Devine, became a close friend. And on WHRB (Harvard Radio) David Elliot has held the fort for fifty years, sounding as good as ever. His post-Met Opera show should have been picked up by other stations long ago (or the Met Network itself), as it features vintage singers from over the decades who recorded (arias and ensembles) from the opera of the day. And where else on the air do you hear the Mapleson cylinders? clark