[BC] Classical stations...

[Robert Orban]

At 04:54 PM 12/29/2005, you wrote:
>From: "Burt I. Weiner" <biwa at earthlink.net>
>Subject: [BC] Classical stations...
>To: broadcast at radiolists.net
>Message-ID: <7.0.0.16.2.20051229084837.03de4f68 at earthlink.net>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>
>
>When my son was about 13 or so, he was home alone working at his
>bench in the garage putting together a model plane.  I came home
>earlier than normal only to discover that he was listening to Carl
>Princi's "World of Opera" on KFAC.  Most of my horse-riding buddies
>are classical music fans.
>
>If you want to tell me that things have changed, go ahead.  I'll tell
>you to go sit at the Hollywood Bowl on a classical night and look around.

It's possible that classical music will become hip: "so out that it's in" 
among young people bored with the play-it-safe, manufactured sound of so 
much of today's pop music. Stranger things have happened. Classical has 
managed to survive 1000 years or so and it will always touch at least some 
people. Fortunately, anyone who goes to the movies regularly will be 
familiar with much of 19th-century classical music's harmonic language and 
tonal palette, which has been shamelessly ripped off by film composers more 
or less since the genre first began. Then it's just a matter of hearing the 
real thing and getting hooked. Once you're hooked, then there's a whole 
world of stuff beyond the 19th century, from Monteverdi to John Adams.

Bob Orban