The 3 Viennese "Stooges" Inordinately Dominate Classical...

...FM radio, and it's an insult to living composers and musicians
everywhere!

Bill Flavell

Bach was not Viennese for Chrissakes!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Flavell" <bill_flavell@email.com>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 27 Aral�k 2005 Sal� 20:26
Subject: [tuning] The 3 Viennese "Stooges" Inordinately Dominate
Classical...

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> ...FM radio, and it's an insult to living composers and musicians
> everywhere!
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> Bill Flavell
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Would you please give us a break with this stuff? Even if some of us might agree that most classical music stations play almost nothing but "safe" music, that doesn't negate any of the inherent quality of that music, and it doesn't mean that you have to sling gratuitous insults at any particular composers, living or dead.

Besides, how is this subject in any way on topic for this list?

- Dave

Bill Flavell wrote:
> ...FM radio, and it's an insult to living composers and musicians > everywhere!
> > > Bill Flavell

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Bill Flavell wrote:
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> ...FM radio, and it's an insult to living composers and musicians
> everywhere!

Oh come on, Bill, if it wasn't for FM radio, I wouldn't
have been able to listen to 3PBS-FM (Public Broadcasting
Society radio) on 96.7 MHz for the last umpteen years.
I'm pleased to say that one of the founders of this great
Australian institution is a personal friend of mine. While
the elitist snobs who advocated only the standard classical
repertory in this city were creating a snob's station that
gave information about the music they played only to their
subscribers, PBS held aloft the banner of "playing under-
represented music everywhere", a cause they champion to
this day, along with great interviews with musicians and
composers. And it's all free for anyone with a cheap radio
or who can tap into streaming radio from the net. Next
time you're using some public computer, try logging into
www.pbsfm.org.au for a while to hear some sounds you may
not hear anywhere else. Who else in this country do you
think plays Cajun, Zydeco, Tex-Mex, St Louis/Chicago/
delta blues, jazz and swing from the earliest available
recordings right up to today, Afro-Carribean, Latin, West
African highlife, Trance, hip-hop, techno, garage, (British)
Northern Soul, reggae, dancehall, DnB, live Aussie Rock ...?

Bill, mate, you're so opinionated - which is fine - but you
DO talk such utter rot!

Here's a tip - next time you're walking past McDonald's,
DON'T GO IN! And next time your radio hits a station
full of commercial, fast-food pap, DON'T LISTEN!

They're your feet doing the walking, your fingers doing
the dialing, and your ears doing the listening. Just vote
with them! Now, ain't that democratic?

Finally ... could we please get back on topic? That is
_musical_ tuning, not the tuning of radio stations!

Regards,
Yahya