I’m rummaging around the indie artist site Bandcamp to see if there are any good classical tracks, and there most certainly are: You have absolutely got to listen to Sly 5th Avenue do a saxophone/violin meditation on a Bach theme. It’s gorgeous. And while we are on that composer, Pianobeat has a really nice album […]
Community Digital News has discovered that a McDonald’s in Australia is streaming classical music and opera outside its digs to discourage youngsters from loitering around the premises. Apparently the fast food store manager tried Barry Manilow, but Beethoven and Puccini really keeps the juvies out. “We play a range of classical and opera music and […]
Classical pianist Lang Lang has called for classical music lovers and developers to come up with a new mobile application for listening to classical music. “Participants in the Competition must present an application concept for mobile devices (Telephone, Tablet, etc.), to bring classical music to users in an original and attractive manner,” the Terms and […]
Say you’ve got a classical music radio show on some college or public radio station. Like a lot of classical radio deejays, you may be the sole representative of this genre on your signal. Everybody else does a pop genre, or jazz or folk or something along those lines. Under these circumstances, it makes sense […]
Most Radio Survivor readers have doubtless forgotten my effort to create a hybrid classical music room at plug.dj. Alas, I tried to pull it out of thin air without any of the real life connections you need to make an Internet music chat room work. Happily, someone remembered and brought a new one to my […]
In a letter dated today (PDF), the FCC approved the renewal application and assigned the license for WFCL to Nashville Public Radio. The non-commercial FM station was formerly Vanderbilt University’s college radio station WRVU-FM (see my profile of the station from 2010). Back in 2011, students were taken off the air at WRVU and the […]
I predict that Maurice Ravel lovers are going to flock to BBC 3 Radio on Friday, when the service will roll out a full 24 hours of the French composer’s works. “Ravel day” will start at 6:30 AM with a drive time introduction to his genius (heads up: presenter Petroc Trelawny will be taking e-mail […]
Classical radio marathons usually take place around the holiday season, and they generally involve asking listeners to name their favorite composers. Then the station streams the top 100 picks. But on April 15, Classic FM in the United Kingdom will run a ‘thon that breaks this mold. The station will air 24 hours of performances […]
Updated: February 20: Ok, second try on this story . . . A solution has been found for financially ailing classical station KDB 93.7 FM in Santa Barbara, California. It will be sold to innovative NPR affiliate KCRW-FM of Santa Monica. When last we left KDB its parent, the Santa Barbara Foundation, was on the […]
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Remember “Roll Over Beethoven”? It appears that Chuck Berry misunderestimated the Romantic German composer. Classical radio station WQXR-FM in New York City has published the results of its annual listener survey, which consists of one question: “What is your favorite piece of classical music?” The responses were ranked down to the 105th favorite. Looking at […]
