[78-L] Capriccio Italien

[Don Cox]

On 10/03/2012, David Lennick wrote:

> On 3/10/2012 10:04 AM, Don Cox wrote:
>> On 10/03/2012, David Lennick wrote:
>> 
>>> If it was the late 1920s, there was probably still a market for
>>> "highlights" and abbreviated performances, a carry-over from
>>> simplified symphonies and overtures on acoustical discs.
>> 
>> There appears to be still a market among radio stations such as
>> ClassicFM in Britain, which seldom plays more than one movement of a
>> symphony or concerto.
> 
> As does a Classics For Yuppies station in Toronto which did
> surprisingly well in the last ratings. It also has announcers who
> can't stop giggling, one who should go back to sportscasting, another
> who should be hogtied and forced to listen to his own airchecks
> because he loves the sound of how high and how low he can make his
> voice go, and the city's noisiest commercials. In between this crap
> and a lot of useless arts reports and restaurant reviews, they squeeze
> in a minute or so of over-compressed music. Burnham knows the one I
> mean.
> 
That sounds even worse than ClassicFM.

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Don Cox
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