Klarinet Archive - Posting 000953.txt from 2002/11

From: "Thiel, Mark" <mark.thiel@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Public Radio (was Music for Dogs)
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:08:54 -0500

Well as long as everyone is whining about how hard they have it in THEIR
listening area --
I feel like I've been isolated from civilization for years here in St Louis.
Does St Paul Sunday
morning still exist? And Karl Haas is still around??? I've never even
heard that Schickele
had a show (wish I hadn't, it just makes me envious). The local NPR
broadcasts no music
except a jazz program late on weekends and the only classical music station
(KFUO) is commercial
AND is starting to beg for money. (At least I think that's what they're
doing nowadays. My
switch-to-tape-player response is so fast now that the cassettes are
compressed to half their
original length when I take them back to the library.)

While the local DJ's make me cringe frequently, I've heard nothing that
enables me to top Lelia's
vivid descriptions. At least KFUO manages to get in complete uncut selected
movements in
between commercials, and if you stay up late enough you can hear an entire
symphony
(Mahler even, if they need a real nap).

Mark Thiel

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