I am not advocating ditching digital recording or a libertarian approach to concert programming. Certainly both radio stations and concert organizations need to make at least a slim profit to survive. What I am advocating is the inclusion of adventure and discovery in those business models to which...
literature,and music were at their height.Italian universities were the finest in the western world.The hundred years before Galileo's birth was a century of magnificent discoveries.Columbus discovered the New World.Gutenberg invented the moveable type...
Classical KDFC (San Francisco) and KUSC (Los Angeles) radio stations aired classical music composition Spanish Serenade, performed by the Czech Nonet. Aired on: November 21, 2018. Performance Today aired my Spanish Serenade Performance Today aired my composition Spanish Serenade on September 4, 2018...
From Thursday, June 6 through Sunday, June 9 the Cleveland Institute of Music will host the 24th edition of the Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival. Presented by Guitars International, the Festival features a rich mix of recitals, master classes, and lectures by eminent guitarists, br...
I'm not referring to another "domain". I'm referring to Apple Music and it is generally very poor. Of course, if you know exactly which songs you want to listen to, you can always make a playlist. But I like creating radio stations out of band so that I can try t...
OR where I also taught my first workshop and stayed up until the wee hours jamming and learning from world class musicians. I played live on two different radio stations. I serenaded a beautiful couple down the aisle at Mt Pisgah Arboretum. I started a TikTok account that’s fairly popular...
We knew the CD [Play] had a sort of underground buzz behind it, because radio stations were playing it. Radio program directors and DJs were reporting back to my PR person, Christina Jensen, saying, “We love this record; we wish we could play the whole thing on the air.” So I tho...
The offshore stations were then promptly banned. But it was also to result in a major dumbing down of the quality of the BBC’s programme content, a trend that sadly continues to this day. I could never work out why the National Broadcaster was allowed near local radio, yet many of ...
Returning to Prague in 1923, he taught piano and composition, lectured, and was a staff pianist/composer for various radio stations. As a pianist, he traveled to France, England, and Russia, and was a much sought-after interpreter of modern music. A prolific composer, he enjoyed a great ...
I am thinking that our children would not be excited to inherit these, although classical music has been terribly served by the streaming services. The “classical” radio stations play tracks at random from CDs classified as “classical.” So you’ll hear the third track from a string quartet...