Posted in Arts & Culture, Baltimore, Classical Music, Critics, Cuba, Cultural Diplomacy, Digital Media, Gaming, Music Media, Musicians, Politics, Pop Music, Print Media, Public Television, Talk Radio, Washington DC, orchestras, public radio, technology, tagged All Things Considered, Cuba, Digital Cafe, Howard Theatre, John Schaefer, Marc Steiner, Milwaukee Symphony, New York Philharmonic, NPR, PBS, Pete Seeger, Radio One, Video Games, WHYY, WYPR, Youth Radio on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Any resemblance to Mike “I Was Just Thinking….” Barnicle is purely coincidental….
Kind of amazing to hear the wall-to-wall media coverage of the New York Philharmonic’s trip to North Korea….startling and gratifying to hear snippets of the New World Symphony in the middle of network newscasts. Worth reading: Anne Midgette’s column in the WaPo on this [...]
Posted in Digital Media, Holidays, Jazz, Milestones, Music Media, Musicians, Radio, Vocalists, public radio, tagged Bruce Springsteen, George Gershwin, Junior Senior, Kennedy Center, Michael Abene, Mike Ricchiutti, New Year's Eve, NPR, Patti Austin, Toast of the Nation, USA Today, WDR Big Band on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WASHINGTON – The reason I’m posting from downtown D.C. this morning has to do with the lady on the left — jazz vocalist Patti Austin, who helped to usher in the New Year with a dynamic all-Gershwin concert at the Kennedy Center last night. Patti’s two-set show, backed by a crackerjack octet [...]
Posted in Classical Music, Composers, Musicians, Singer-Songwriters, public radio, tagged Fresh Air, Jason Moran, Jazz Piano Christmas, Jazz Profiles, Joshua Schachter, KCRW, Mozart, Nic Harcourt, Nico Muhly, NPR, Regina Spektor, Smithsonian, Sufjan Stevens, Takoma Park, UTunes on October 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
AUSTIN, Tx – on the road again, (for the UTunes project) and taking the opportunity to catchup on some reading. First up is the latest edition – a special issue – of Smithsonian magazine, titled “37 under 36: American’s Young Innovators in the Arts & Sciences.” The whole issue is [...]
Posted in Harpers Ferry, Jazz, Museums, Politics, music education, public radio, tagged Abraham Lincoln, Besame Mucho, Dakota Jazz Club, Great Night Out, Harpers Ferry, Lowell Pickett, Nachito Herrera, PRPD, Target, WBGO, Weather Report on October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
PHILADELPHIA – All quiet on the blog front lately, thanks to a combination of travel, deadlines, and Harpers Ferry business. But I’ve been saving up a lot of thoughts to share about the PRPD Conference last week in Minneapolis (PRPD stands for Public Radio Program Directors, now the biggest confab in [...]
Posted in Composers, Festivals, Milestones, Musicians, Pop Music, Rock'n'Roll, Singer-Songwriters, U.K., Virginia, public radio, tagged Adolphus Hailstork, Bruce Hornsby, Chaka Kahn, Jamestown, Jen Chapin, Jennifer Higdon, John Corigliano, John Duffy, Mike Seeger, Ricky Scaggs, Scott Miller, Virginia Arts Festival, Vusi Mahlasela on May 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: 15 MAY 07: Fred Child has been on location from the Virginia Arts Festival, broadcasting Performance Today from WHRO in Norfolk, along with some select excerpts from the Festival.
The Queen may have gone home, but this is actually the big “America 400th” weekend in Virginia. The actual anniversary date of the Jamestown landing [...]
Posted in Classical Radio, Climate Change, Country Music, Rock Radio, Satellite Radio, baseball, public radio, tagged DCRTV, el Zol, From the Top, Lee Abrams, Metropolitan Opera, NPR, The Globe, The Orioles, Washington Post Radio, WBAL, WETA, WFMT, WHFS, World of Opera on May 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When I first wrote about the George/Globe/’GMS-gone-down-the-pubradio-block events I mused that “DC Radio was about to get a lot more interesting.” True that…the latest Washington ratings (for Winter 2007) had a Spanish-language station (“El Zol,” formerly the legendary alternative pioneer WHFS) at the top of the heap; we’ve got the corporate “greenternaltive” of [...]
Posted in Classical Music, Composers, Conductors, Digital Media, World Music, orchestras, public radio, tagged Baltimore Symphony, Carnegie Hall, Jeff Lunden, Marin Alsop, NPR, Peabody Conservatory, Por Por Music, Stravinsky on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
And now for something completely different: Delighted by a trio of great stories emanting from my old network the past few days. Car horns and tire rims making beautiful music from Ghana, Arkansas high school choristers giving it all they’ve got at the National High School Choral Festival at [...]
Posted in Classical Music, Classical Radio, Radio, Washington DC, public radio, tagged bonneville, classical, Classical Radio, Dan Snyder, kdfc, Washington DC, WETA on January 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
All right, it was a big deal to me, but not many other folks paid much attention to the news that I wrote about on Day One – Bonneville’s “Yankee Swop” of its frequencies with Entercom, meaning a likely sayonara for classically-formatted KDFC in San Francisco. Sure enough, the other shoe dropped today [...]
Posted in Canada, Classical Music, Classical Radio, Conferences, Radio, public radio, tagged Arts Presenters, CBC, classical, Kadmus on January 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The same winds of change are blowing across the classical-music landscape at the CBC. Witness today’s announcement about the program changes in their classical channel, CBC Radio Two. I’ll have more to say about this a little later, after I get back from participating in tomorrow’s Panel Discussion at the Arts Presenters [...]
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