[BC] Digital Interference

[Gordon Carter]

When you guys are talking East Coast vs. West Coast, don't forget there
is a lot of "No Coast" in between.

I believe it was in Chicago that one of the conductors actually stopped
a performance and because too many people in the audience were coughing.

There are a lot of really great orchestras across the Midwest that just
haven't had the exposure of the "biggies".  Milwaukee, St. Louis, and
Cincinnati come to mind quickly.

Gordon S. Carter, CPBE, CBNT
Chief Engineer
WFMT and The Radio Network
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Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 7:16 PM
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Subject: RRe: [BC] Digital Interference

At 04:41 PM 12/19/2005, you wrote:
>From: Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com>
>Subject: Re: [BC] Digital Intgerference
>To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>------ At 04:26 AM 12/19/2005, Robert Orban wrote: -------
>
> >As for classical concerts, it's hard for me to put myself in the
> >shoes of a 15 year old listener. But I love live classical music. I
> >go to the symphony at least 15 times per year and it never fails to
> >strike me that symphony audiences are probably the best-behaved and
> >most respectful audiences of all.
>
>Then you've never been to a Boston Symphony Friday matinee. When
>Michael Tilson Thomas was Associate Conductor he developed a
>"Spectrum" series featuring contemporary works. Blue haired Beacon
>Hill matrons revolted. They'd get up, slam their seats back and storm
>out of Symphony Hall. Michael got no respect. He and I had common
>friends so I saw him often. It frustrated him that they wouldn't give
>him a chance. This wasn't Cage stuff. Even Stravinsky didn't pass
muster.
>
>Not unexpected. Most Beacon Hill matrons were pretty revolting, anyway.

Drifting off-topic: MTT (who is, of course, the San Francisco Symphony's

current Music Director) is worshipped by San Francisco audiences. He has

programmed some very challenging 20th century works (Berio and
Schoenberg, 
for example). He and the orchestra are always applauded at the end (and
I 
can almost never recall an instance when someone walked out), although
MTT 
is not necessarily brought back for the traditional third bow.

One great thing about living in the Bay Area is that there are a lot of 
culturally literate people here. But then again, I've been told that the

Los Angeles Philharmonic (under Esa-Pekka Salonen) also gets big
audiences 
and he certainly doesn't dumb down his programming. Culture snobs in
Boston 
or New York City who thinks that California contains nothing but dumb 
surfers are kidding themselves.

The one problem San Francisco has in this area is that it has a
dumbed-down 
commercial classical music radio station with no non-comm competition
(at 
least for now). KDFC is very good about being involved with the local 
classical music community, but to say that their programming is not 
challenging is to put it kindly.

Bob Orban 



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