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Monday, November 16th, 2009globeandmail.com: Dear Canada: Your opinion on the CBC is ‘pathetic’
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And there’s the rub - weeks after the new-format National was launched, the emphasis on the superficial is all too clear. I know that. You know that. But what do we know, really? We’re “pathetic.”
Memo to Richard Stursberg - the CBC belongs to all […]
Elmer Iseler and the CBC
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008A Selection of quotes from Walter Pitman, Elmer Iseler: Choral Visionary, Toronto: Dunburn Press, 2008
by Miriam Mittermaier
Walter Pitman’s new biography of Elmer Iseler, founder and conductor of the Festival Signers and the Elmer Iseler singers and long-time conductor of the Mendelssohn Choir, describes not only one musical genius but a rich period of development in […]
Ben Heppner takes a ‘northern swing’ on latest Canadian tour - CBC.CA
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Tuesday, 16 September, 2008
Taking a break from prestigious engagements in opera capitals like New York, Paris and Milan, tenor Ben Heppner is back touring smaller Canadian cities, this time performing across the North.
The acclaimed singer is in the midst of his third such solo recital tour, bringing a program of folk and opera works — […]
CBC’s brave new Radio 2 : The Toronto Star
Sunday, September 14th, 2008Broadcaster’s road-trip approach to Canadian content is proving to be matchless
September 14, 2008
Greg Quill
Entertainment Columnist
Two weeks ago, radio like this didn’t exist anywhere in the world.
With the exception of a five-hour slab of classical music in the middle of the work day, the revamped CBC Radio 2 sounds like a road trip across the country, […]
Thousands of Montrealers - and Canadians - can’t be wrong about the classics - The Gazette
Sunday, September 14th, 2008By Arthur Kaptainis
September 13, 2008
The debate in the nation’s newspapers over what the CBC calls the New 2 has become a game of volleyball, as those for and against the overhauled radio programming trade predictable lobs and spikes. But an assumption accepted by many members of both teams bears looking at: The audience for classical […]
A heretic speaks: CBC Radio Two was boring - Times Colonist
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Ian Haysom, Special to Times Colonist
Published: Saturday, September 06, 2008
I wish I’d listened to the old CBC Radio Two more because, judging by the outpouring of outrage this week, it was the best radio station in the world. Actually, it was more than a radio station. It was life itself. It nourished. It enlightened. It excited. […]
Nesrallah helms watered-down Tempo - Ottawa Citizen
Saturday, September 6th, 2008But CBC’s best classical offerings on the Net
Richard Todd, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Saturday, September 06, 2008
What a relief! When CBC Radio 2’s new classical music program, Tempo, premiered this week, you might have thought you would have to endure long stretches of serious stuff, complete symphonies perhaps, for the next five hours.
But no, most of the […]
CBC Radio 2’s new direction appallingly off-key - Times Colonist
Friday, September 5th, 2008Iain Hunter
September 3, 2008
The program director for CBC Radio had invited me, and everyone else in Canada, to tune into the corporation’s “new” Radio 2 yesterday, so I did — for about 18 seconds.
I couldn’t stick around long enough to learn what it was I was listening to, but if it was music, it had […]
CBC blocking emails from angry listeners, watchdog says - Ottawa Citizen
Friday, September 5th, 2008Chris Cobb, The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA - A Canadian radio and TV watchdog is accusing the taxpayer-funded CBC of blocking email complaints sent by listeners to the broadcaster’s president and chairman.
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, which launched a campaign Saturday against the format overhaul of CBC’s Radio Two, says complaints sent to CBC president Hubert Lacroix and […]
The new CBC Radio 2: Dumbed down or daring - Vancouver Sun
Friday, September 5th, 2008Nicholas Read, Vancouver Sun
September 3, 2008
VANCOUVER - Earlier this week the Vancouver Sun invited readers to comment on changes made to CBC Radio 2 on Tuesday. That was the day the national broadcaster switched from primarily a classical music format to one emphasizing pop, jazz and blues. Classical music is now confined to five hours […]