[BC] New HD radio

[Steve]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Wood" <richwood at pobox.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] New HD radio

> A music depreciation course I had in college made it clear
> that Bach wrote the Cantatas for money, not for the greater glory of
> God, even though they seem like it. All God's chillun' gotta pay the
bills.

And for what did Bach write his other works? For chopped liver?
And when the Sibelius family needed money dad said: "Jean, write some piano
music." So when you hear any piano works by him it the bank account was
getting thin. It's funny how so-called artistic works and money can't be in
the same sentence. I guess people think they did this for their health? They
were doing what they loved and, as you said, pay the bills.

> Most places, on the East Coast, at least, consider a single movement
> to be heresy.

Those are the "highbrows" speaking. The two phone calls you get in a week.
Phooey! I wouldn't have gotten a 3.1 12+ in Dallas if that were true. I
played movements in the Morning Show all the time. The opening movement of
the Haydn 87th...Great wakeup/commute piece. First movement of Mozart's
25th....exciting. And yes...the Carlos Kleiber recording of Beethoven's 5th,
1st movement would be played. Play the hits or, in the case of Classical
music, the sound-a-likes and you'll win. When you're goin' for the cars
Shostakovich or Mahler ain't gonna cut it. You know that Rich. Bob, you know
that deep down inside as well. Now I'm talking Classical music in the
semi-passive mode NOT the active mode which Shosty and Gustav require. Rich,
I'm sure you remember the NCN/QXR fight? That's when I got the call from the
QXR consultant and finally the P.D. (I'm drawing a blank on the name of the
QXR consultant at the time...that was 18 years ago)

Sorry I went off-topic here but I can't help myself when it comes to this
subject.

Steve
Steve Walker Productions