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« Previous EntriesChinese Canadians to have classical music taken away, again
Wednesday, August 20th, 20082008/04/24
A lot of our Chinese Canadians had western classical music taken from them once before in their lifetime. Their children were allowed to listen to the music forbidden during the Cultural Revolution not so long ago. Now, “only in Canada” the extermination of the CBC Radio Orchestra and the stripping of the CBC Radio Two […]
US citizen moved to Canada because of CBC Radio, feels betrayed
Saturday, August 16th, 2008I’ll confess that the experience of listening to CBC Radio while driving across Canada a few times in the mid-90s inspired me to move to Canada and become a Canadian citizen. Back then, CBC Radio presented the cutting edge of a range of cultures including Inuit. I still find it difficult to […]
Culture 101 for Richard Stursberg
Saturday, August 16th, 2008June 30, 2008
Mr Richard Stursberg
Executive Vice President
CBC English Services
PO Box 500, Station A
Toronto, Ontario
M5W 1E6
Dear Mr. Stursberg,
The changes to CBC Radio suggest misplaced priorities. According to a recent article in the Globe and Mail, you do not have prior experience in radio and television programming, nor have you dedicated your life to cultural issues […]
Classical Music Elitist? My Foot!
Thursday, August 14th, 2008From: MARINA PINTO
Date: August 6, 2008 5:51:51 PM PDT (CA)
Subject: [SOG4CBC:462] Fw: Classical Music Elitist?? My Foot! - And More!!
Hello Everyone
I’ve decided to share my thoughts on the Stand on Guard for CBC site, in hopes that people may take them and use them to write letters, to think up strategies, to form a picture […]
CBC changes based on old research: “classical” music is growing
Thursday, August 14th, 2008CBC Management appears to have based the rationale for making recent and proposed changes to Radio 2 in part on the following statement:
“But while Canadians maintain a broad interest in cultural pursuits, overall attendance and participation in “traditional” Arts activities has been flat, if not declining, in the 1990s and early 2000s.” - […]
Why the show may, in fact, go on - Globe and Mail
Saturday, August 9th, 2008CANON FIRE: RADIO WARS
Why the show may, in fact, go on
In the last of a three-part series, critic Robert-Everett Green talks to the Montreal venture capitalist determined to save the CBC Radio Orchestra - and explains why it may not be the only CBC venture to survive a death foretold
By Robert Everett-Green
*All three articles can […]
Eric Ball: how can we listeners remove those executives?
Thursday, August 7th, 2008LETTER TO JOSÉE VERNER
29 July 2008
Hon. Josée Verner
Minister of Canadian Heritage,
Status of Women and Official Languages
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
Dear Josée Verner:
Re: CBC Radio Orchestra and CBC Radio One and Radio Two music programming
I’m writing with a specific question that I hope you can help me with, but first let me explain what my concerns […]
Keith Kinder, McMaster School of Arts Director: CBC genre argument spurious
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:57:47 -0400
Keith Kinder wrote:
Prime Minister Harper, Minister Verner, Deputy Minister LaRocque;
I am writing to add my voice to those thousands of Canadians who are
dismayed by the demolition of CBC’s Radio 2, in particular the
reduction of “classical” - I prefer the term “serious” - music
broadcasting from 120 to 25 hours/week and […]
Remake Radio 2 or watch it die - Globe and Mail
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008CANON FIRE: PUSHING THE MUSICAL ENVELOPE
In the second instalment of a three-part series, critic Robert Everett-Green lauds CBC’s decision to devote more airtime to innovative, non-classical Canadian music. The alternative? The decimation of Radio 2’s audience within a decade
By Robert Everett-Green
Earlier this week, I attended a lecture by composer R. Murray Schafer, who once wrote […]
Yuel Yawney on the Axing of CBCRO and demise of CBC Radio 2
Friday, August 1st, 2008A Changing Classical Landscape
The Axing of the CBC Orchestra and Demise of CBC Radio Two
By Yuel Yawney
[from Borealis String Quartet Spring 2008 Newsletter, April 2008]
As many of you have heard, the CBC has decided to cut the CBC Radio Orchestra from the Canadian musical landscape. For musicians, composers, and audiences alike, this is an assault […]