Oh my gosh oh my gosh! The local public radio station, the one that made me very very angry by switching to all talk a year ago, might go back to classical!!! That would be most excellent news.
Yay! Though, I must admit I've come to like some the talk programming on WETA, especially as an alternative to WAMU on Sunday (I can only take so much Stained Glass Bluegrass), and like Praire Home Companion and the like. I'm also getting so "Podded Up" I don't need the radio for music much these days. But, if Classical on WETA makes YOU happy, so am I.
Hooray, that's great. There used to be two public classical stations in Minnesota, both of which were exemplary. I learned most of my music history listening to those two stations as a youth. When I went back to MN a few years ago, one had become some other kind of station, and the other became a lame classical station, the kind that only plays the Four Seasons, Water Music, Beethoven's 5th, and the Nutcracker in various orders. Ugh. The classical station in San Francisco/Berkeley is the sorriest, most horrible station ever. After a piece finishes, rather than telling you who played it or what it was, a breathy voice says something like, "Now wasn't that a relaxing break from the stress of your commute?" GRRRRRRRRRRR!
Yep, the station here that's about to get sold (which is what is prompting this possible return to classical by WETA) is owned by the same people who own the SF station.
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Yay! Though, I must admit I've come to like some the talk programming on WETA, especially as an alternative to WAMU on Sunday (I can only take so much Stained Glass Bluegrass), and like Praire Home Companion and the like. I'm also getting so "Podded Up" I don't need the radio for music much these days. But, if Classical on WETA makes YOU happy, so am I.
Hooray, that's great. There used to be two public classical stations in Minnesota, both of which were exemplary. I learned most of my music history listening to those two stations as a youth. When I went back to MN a few years ago, one had become some other kind of station, and the other became a lame classical station, the kind that only plays the Four Seasons, Water Music, Beethoven's 5th, and the Nutcracker in various orders. Ugh. The classical station in San Francisco/Berkeley is the sorriest, most horrible station ever. After a piece finishes, rather than telling you who played it or what it was, a breathy voice says something like, "Now wasn't that a relaxing break from the stress of your commute?" GRRRRRRRRRRR!
Yep, the station here that's about to get sold (which is what is prompting this possible return to classical by WETA) is owned by the same people who own the SF station.
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