Klarinet Archive - Posting 001018.txt from 1997/11

From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com>
Subj: GOOD STATIONS DISAPPEARING!
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 05:42:23 -0500

"Good "stations disappearing

We are fortunate in Toronto. Firstly, there is a government regulating
body and it's function, among others, is to promote culture.
So we get a good dose of good music. There are some private stations
that also that deem it necessary to provide good fare.
One of the stations has some commericals but it's not too bad. At least
between those commercials there is a plethora of good music.
Sometimes repetitious because they don't always have a new supply of
records.
They never ask for donations. There is another station, connected with
a learning institute that provides a lot of music. Many hours of good
music. A few times a year they ask for donations.
But all this is Toronto.

When I take a trip to my hometown, Edmonton that lies in Alberta, the
home of farmers and oilmen, the story is different.
COUNTRY MUSIC! That's all you hear. Sometimes on Sunday they'll sneak
in an hour of classical stuff.
But to country music ears that would sound like, let's to us classical
orientated ears, listening to Stockhausen or other modern things.

The announcers on the Toronto stations purport to be eruduite in the
matters of music.
You hear a voice saying, "This composition was written, if memory
serves me, in 1875." (That's what the record jacket says)
Sometimes they get into pronouncing names a certain way.

Everyone heard of Yitschak Perlman. WELL- when you come across the name
Isaac Stern, you wouldn't called him Yitschak Stern. Both names are
biblical.
Isaac is the way its written in the King James bible and Yitschak is the
Hebrew pronunciation of the name.
So when you get, Isaac Albeniz pronounced at Yitschak Albeniz, it's
going too far. Albeniz was Spanish.
Imagine Sir Yitschak Newton!
One of the funniest ones was when they played the Mozart trio for
clarinet,viola and piano. The Kegelstat.
So the announcer, after they played it, said, "Of course, this Kegelstat
come from the CITY OF KEGEL." He took the sound of stat to mean stadt,
which is German for city.

A little learning is dangerous.

Avrahm Galper

   
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