Klarinet Archive - Posting 000926.txt from 2002/11

From: James Fay <n3hpz@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music for Dogs
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:08:27 -0500

Had a weekend WGMS announcer last year in my Community College Music
History class (forget his name, he does sat evenings).

He said the Program Director picks all the music, announcers have little
say, and that they won't carry Peter Schikele's show because it doesn't
suit the "mood" of WGMS!

--Jim Fay

LeliaLoban@-----.com wrote:

>Mike M. wrote,
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>>Why you wouldn't be writing about those great
>>women announcers in Washington, D.C. on
>>Classical 103.5 WGMS! Okay, maybe the ones
>>on WETA!
>>
>>
>
>I loved Judy Gruber, who knows a ton about music and says it straight up
>without any bull, but she's hardly on the air any more except as a
>substitute. I hesitate to blame the current announcers for the horrible
>programming, because I don't think all of them choose their own playlists any
>more, on either WGMS or WETA.
>
>I think that Lynn Chaney speaks with more knowledge and dignity than she used
>to before she left this area for a few years; but sometimes she still sounds
>patronizing, and she still has that unfortunate tendency to babble, with a
>telephone solicitor's synthetic charm. Don't even get me started on Diane
>Hollander. Her voice has a pleasant timbre, but I want to climb straight up
>the curtains when she starts with her smarmy gushing and playful
>pretend-nagging, telling listeners what she just *knows* we think about the
>music (I'll decide that for myself, thanks) -- and she's the worst of the
>worst for playing amputated movements or interrupting the music before the
>end of a movement. No, I lie -- there's another local female announcer I
>dislike even more than Diane Hollander, but I don't know her name, because
>every time I hear her high-pitched twittering and squeeeeeealing, I jab the
>button before she finishes, and I stick a CD in the slot.
>
>The local NPR affiliate, WETA, has also irritated me by cutting way back on
>music and replacing it with yap yap yap yap *yap*. Speaking of dogs. Grrrr!
>
>Lelia
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