20th Century Internet radio channel

I just wanted to share my discovery of the Spinner
program, at www.spinner.com, which I got when I
downloaded the Real player.

It has ca. 100 net radio stations, including one just
for 20th Century classical. I was pleasantly surprised
to hear music by Messaien, Earle Brown, Berio, George
Crumb and plenty of other non-easy listening music
broadcast this afternoon to my Windows machine in
high-quality audio(it helps to have a T1 high-speed
connection, I'm sure, plus a Win2K powerhouse laptop).
It sure helped keep my day of testing here at work a
lot more engaging!

The Avant-Garde channel is for that kind of jazz, and
may be similarly bold in its programming.

Only once, when I was playing the Bossa Nova channel,
was music interrupted by an ad, and that was brief,
and after more than an hour of listening. Spinner does
put up a banner/control panel with a small panel with
ads, however.

And listening from here I had only a rare 'digital
blip' in the broadcast.

Not surprisingly, Spinner can link you to CDNow, which
sometimes has the album of what you're hearing
available for purchase.

Of course, there are other sites with streaming
avant-garde, including for example
http://www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/2newhours/2newhours.html
(plain CBC Radio 2 (classical) is at
http://www.radio.cbc.ca/cbcstereo.ram)

Note Ruifeng and I will be performing at the El Paso
Microtonal Hootenanny this coming weekend, and will be
in Minneapolis & Detroit the week after that, so keep
that in mind. (Ruifeng is my new camerawoman!)

Hope you can enjoy these cool new stations too,
Harold

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--- In tuning@y..., Harold Fortuin <harold_fortuin@y...> wrote:

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> I just wanted to share my discovery of the Spinner
> program, at www.spinner.com, which I got when I
> downloaded the Real player.
>

Thanks so much for "turning me on" to this, Harold. This is pretty
cool... I was looking for something like this.

You're right, the 20th Century Music is actually pretty
sophisticated... Likewise the "Avant Garde" jazz and Renaissance
music... and standards with "Classical" and Baroque... and African...
about anything...

Thanks again!

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Joseph Pehrson