Klarinet Archive - Posting 000265.txt from 2007/03

From: "Rommel John Miller" <RommelJMiller@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] music stations on cable
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:46:28 -0400

Thanks to David for reminding me and all of us about the Classical Arts
Showcase that comes out of Burbank, California, and is shown locally on
Baltimore County Comcast on the Channel 71 at the oddest hours, but most of
the day on Sunday.

I love the Classical Arts Showcase and I think I mentioned it once before on
this list, and while it resembles Empty-V in many ways, it lacks two of its
most distracting features, annoying V-J's and Commercials, which are a
blessing. The only drawback is that Classical Arts only broadcasts in 4 or
six hour segments, so if a programmer is programming the station for a
period longer than what the CAS people have programmed the pieces will
repeat in a single viewing.

The nice thing about Music Choice is that a program will rarely repeat,
although I have noticed that it has on occasion only once. Music Choice is
like the XM Satellite Radio of Cable, and it is nice because you can just
tune in have it play all day long without having to worry about changing a
disk or DJ chatter, and if you have interfaced your sound system up with
your cable and video all the better: quality sound, period, no visuals, no
VJ's, no bother, just music, and that's the way I like it.

Cable TV might have dulled our senses in many ways, but Classical Music
through this service, available 24/7 and without interruption is one way in
which it has enhanced it, if you ask me.

And unlike MTV which is purely a marketing gimmick, and even the Classical
Arts Showcase which provides the websites of the manufacturers and
distributors of the music and videos of the pieces which they air, so that
"interested" parties might go there and purchase a copy for themselves.
Music Choice makes no marketing ploy, and that in and of itself is
refreshing, albeit for a reminder that you can party, and relax with them 24
hours a day, and they sometimes pick the oddest of pictures to broadcast
during a piece, although their pictures of composers and instruments are
nice and always appreciated.

Rommel John Miller
308 Dale Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21206-1219
410-668-4784
410-967-8994
RommelJMiller@-----.net

Clarinetist, Saxiphonist and Pianist
Actor and Magician
Contact me for more information

-----Original Message-----
From: D. Blumberg [mailto:blummy@-----.net]
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 9:38 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] music stations on cable

From: "Rommel John Miller" <RommelJMiller@-----.net>
Subject: RE: [kl] Stadler a "rotter"
Message-ID: <00f901c76e4e$171fc150$5a1a3744@shalom>

Thanks for asking Michael, I personally subscribe to Comcast Digital Cable,
and there are two Classical Music stations on a satellite provider called
Musical Choice (MC) I do not know what the appropriate satellite settings
would be, but in Baltimore County they are on Channels 434 and 436. They
have just about every genre of music on about 150 channels, including some
of the boorish pop stuff, sorry if I offend. But you'd think if they have a
channel of all Bluegrass, they could throw one up strictly for Celtic too,
wouldn't you?

You can go to www.musicchoice.com to ask them to carry it on your cable
provider or satellite provider, and while there, ask them to start a Celtic
channel, I have. I mean Celtic music isn't all that bad or nasty to listen
to, and some of those Cape Breton Fiddlers aren't hard on the eye.

Rommel John Miller
308 Dale Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21206-1219
410-668-4784
410-967-8994
DoctorX@-----.net
RommelJMiller@-----.net
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There's a Classical Video (yes, video's, basically an "mtv" for the Arts)
channel on some cable networks which is really good. Classic Arts Showcase
http://classicartsshowcase.org/ is the name.

David Blumberg
http://www.mytempo.com - John Williams Concerto Producer

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