Archive for June, 2008
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Monday, June 30th, 2008OperaCanada Notebook by Wayne Gooding June/July 2008 We’ve run a number of articles over the past several issues about the quite radical changes digital technologies are making to the availability of opera, driven to a large degree by the Metropolitan Opera through its HD movie broadcasts and its use of alternatives for radio transmission such [...]
Classical is better than pop – and we know it
Monday, June 30th, 2008[EDITOR'S NOTE: Somehow this article did not make it into our original blog.] [original link] By RUSSELL SMITH rsmith [at] globeandmail [dot] com Thursday, April 10, 2008 – Print Edition, Page R1 Among the many unconvincing claims CBC executives are making in their propaganda war about the massive reduction in support for classical music on [...]
Radio 2′s June 11 Programming Announcement means a loud OFF click in the fall
Monday, June 30th, 2008This is a copy of a letter sent to CBC Management for Radio 2 offering listener feedback to their announcement today regarding the changes to Radio 2′s programming for the fall. It seems that they are not listening to all the excellent protests to these changes that have been sent their way. 11 June 2008 [...]
French Musical Education: reasons for anger
Friday, June 27th, 2008This editorial caught my eye because it complains of the dumbing-down of French musical society and education as evident from the French Culture Minister’s assertion that grants would be refused to works that did not serve the public interest. This reminds me of the current changes being foisted on our society by the CBC and [...]
CBC: show more integrity and responsiveness – Peter Rahn
Thursday, June 26th, 2008[Editor's note: this is a critique written to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage in response to their report released on June 18.] Date: June 20, 2008 11:27:05 PM PDT (CA) Subject: Committee report on the CBC Mr. G. Schellenberger, MP, Chair of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage Dear Sir: Please except my congratulations [...]
O Canada! Long may you play!
Thursday, June 26th, 2008[Editor's note: this piece from 2006 is a great backgrounder, not only on the CBC Radio Orchestra but on its cultural relevance for the city and the nation, and how truly innovative and culturally relevant the orchestra is. Italics mine. -John Oliver] The last of a breed, the CBC Radio Orchestra sounds vibrantly alive. By [...]
CBC Radio widens its net – Globe and Mail
Thursday, June 26th, 2008CBC Radio widens its net Guy Dixon, The Globe and Mail June 26, 2008 A higher-profile morning time slot for host Jian Ghomeshi and a youthful-sounding current-affairs program in the afternoon on Radio One are two of the major changes coming to CBC Radio this fall. In a festive presentation – one part public announcement [...]
‘Diversity’ is behind Radio 2 changes? What a bunch of twaddle – Globe and Mail
Thursday, June 26th, 2008BROADCASTING: CLASSICAL MUSIC Russell Smith June 26, 2008 Because of the groundswell of protest against the proposed changes to CBC Radio 2 and the elimination of the CBC Radio Orchestra, the House of Commons recently held hearings into the CBC’s plans. The standing committee on Canadian heritage heard, over the past month, from representatives of [...]
Eric Ball: CBC management responds as if no protest exists
Thursday, June 26th, 2008This fine letter to Susan Mitton, summarizes the undemocratic intransigence with which CBC listeners are faced and sums up where we are (not) with CBC management. 26 June 2008 Susan Mitton Executive Director (Interim) CBC Radio P.O. Box 500, Station A Toronto, ON M5W 1E6 Dear Ms. Mitton: Thank you for your letter of 18 [...]
CBC Radio Orchestra producer Denise Ball honoured
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008I attended Vancouver’s first Mayor’s Arts Awards Ceremony last night (Vancouver Playhouse Theatre). After awards to Yulanda Faris for philanthropy, to Odlum Brown Limited for Business Support, and to Rob O’Dea for volunteerism, the rest honoured those who have achieved great things for our city, and then invited them to choose an emerging artist in [...]
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