tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post6721021065565092347..comments2024-03-28T12:59:05.739-07:00Comments on Iron Tongue of Midnight: More on the KDFC/KUSC/KUSF SituationLisa Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-76796427348616086652011-04-24T19:01:52.642-07:002011-04-24T19:01:52.642-07:00P. S. I've been having excellent conversations...P. S. I've been having excellent conversations with Bryan about music for about 20 years, so I really, REALLY don't give a damn about a typo.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-32235048071466192672011-04-24T18:59:58.388-07:002011-04-24T18:59:58.388-07:00And see this new postingAnd see <a href="http://irontongue.blogspot.com/2011/04/attempted-spelling-correction.html" rel="nofollow">this new posting</a>Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-38781104926614848922011-04-24T18:47:11.510-07:002011-04-24T18:47:11.510-07:00Before you criticize my spelling, you might consul...Before you criticize my spelling, you might consult any scholarly edition of Shakespeare. Or are you going to argue with the text of the Riverside Shakespeare? On the web, your suggested spelling is found 45 times, mine 34,000 times. You've heard of Google, right?<br /><br />And lay off my contributors. I don't give a damn about their typographical errors.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-78667627683410356122011-04-24T16:40:47.150-07:002011-04-24T16:40:47.150-07:00Before you so self-righteously critique music (tho...Before you so self-righteously critique music (though KDFC's endless Dvorak,and Bizet iterations are awful), I suggest you learn to spell.<br />In your letterhead, it is not "told"<br />bells but "tolled". And your contributor should know it is Nacht<br />not Nach regarding Mozart.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00790209762751936146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-63477707396325922052011-01-21T20:36:50.715-08:002011-01-21T20:36:50.715-08:00They're not going to change.
I listen to KUSC...They're not going to change.<br /><br />I listen to KUSC driving to and from work and sometimes at work when my boss lets me control the radio just so that I don't have to hear the soft rock he likes, and I'll say this: I know more about the catalogs of Vivaldi, Telemann and Haydn than I ever dreamed possible and certainly ever wished. <br /><br />When they do play something totally harmless like <i>Verklärte Nacht</i>, they almost put a warning before it: No! No! It's not that nasty atonal Schoenberg, this is actually pretty and stuff!<br /><br />They still play single movements or "the last 10 minutes" (!!) of pieces during the morning drive.<br /><br />The only redeeming features are the live orchestra broadcasts from various places, the Met broadcasts, Jim Svejda in the evenings and sometimes their Modern Music program which still wouldn't play non-tonal music if they're lives depended on it.<br /><br />Meet the new boss<br />Same as the old boss......Henry Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871451112170286316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-78399408529212382582011-01-20T19:13:34.599-08:002011-01-20T19:13:34.599-08:00The reply is not at all helpful. They could hardl...The reply is not at all helpful. They could hardly do fewer complete pieces or branch out less, since they've actually been contracting their repertoire and fragmenting works more, over the period that they've been Fluff Central. If they went back to where they were ten years ago (when they played lots of complete pieces, so long as those pieces were The Moldau or Prokofiev's Classical Symphony), it's seem like an improvement.<br /><br />Like you, I hate the "myclassical" moniker. In fact, I hate anything on computers that begins "my ..." I call it "Barney personalization," after the purple dinosaur who convinces two-year-olds that when he turns his big wet eyes on them, he's saying "I wuv you" to them personally. Nobody older than two ought to be fooled by this sort of thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-23183284400391981402011-01-20T13:05:07.146-08:002011-01-20T13:05:07.146-08:00>island of sanity
I guess they consider anythi...>island of sanity<br /><br />I guess they consider anything more adventursome than Eine Kleine Nachmusik to be insane.Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05394803784895757038noreply@blogger.com