Dispatches from Supporters
« Previous EntriesThanks and good-bye to classic radio - The Toronto Star
Sunday, August 31st, 2008CBC’s cancelled FM schedule was elegant, engaging, and loved – a hard act to follow
August 31, 2008
Miriam Mittermaier
Special to the STar
For CBC Radio 2 listeners, this has been a week of sad good-byes. From this Tuesday, the old weekday classical shows will be gone, and with them, most of the hosts who have […]
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
To […]
Author Yann Martel invites Stephen Harper to read the Kreuzer Sonata
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008Author Yann Martel has been challenging our Prime Minister to read great works of literature for some time now and documenting the process on his great web site. Recently he decided to suggest Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata, to which the Stand on Guard for CBC Coalition added Jane Coop and Andrew Dawes playing the music […]
CBC Radio is killing classical music - Letter to Editor, Vancouver Courier
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Vancouver Courier
Published: Wednesday, May 28, 2008
To the editor:
Re: “Out of Tune,” May 23.
In her otherwise even-handed and most welcome article about the cancelling of the CBC Radio Orchestra and the widespread opposition it has provoked, Susan Hollis repeats as if accurate the CBC executives’ spin on their decision, with its newspeak distortion. “Instead of preserving […]
Open letter from James McIntosh, Founder of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada
Monday, May 26th, 2008Saturday, May 24 2008
To Whom It May Concern:
In the spring of 1961, in the first
ever issue of Performing Arts in Canada
Magazine; CBC historian/writer/researcher
Thomas Brown wrote: “In the fall of 1952,
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
organized its first full-sized
Symphony Orchestra on a permanent
Basis…” They broadcast from the old
Carleton Street Theatre on
Parliament Street in Toronto.
Before 1952, our cultural history
was […]
Letter to Prime Minister Harper from Save the CBC Radio Orchestra Committee
Monday, May 26th, 2008Dear Prime Minister Harper,
To accompany your reading of “The Kreutzer Sonata” by Tolstoy being sent to you by Mr. Yann Martel please find enclosed a recording of the Beethoven “Kreutzer” Sonata that the book title refers to (CD 2 tracks 7-9).
This set of the complete Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano is performed by two […]
Letter to Prime Minister Harper from writer Yann Martel
Monday, May 26th, 2008*A couple of weeks ago, we contacted Yann Martel, the Man Booker prizewinner and asked him about his views on the disbanding of the CBC Radio Orchestra. Mr Martel had written an article in the Globe and Mail last year about the 50th anniversary of the Canada Council for the Arts and his experience along […]
Choral singers infiltrated CBC Atrium prior to rally in Toronto - Youtube video
Sunday, May 25th, 2008Report from Toronto rally - click here for link to choral infiltration of the CBC Atrium prior to rally yesterday.
As we sang 3 new verses to Bach’s Wachet Auf Chorale and then O’Canada, a 32′ long banner was unfurled by people of all ages with the inscription “CULTURE FOR ALL AGES - SAVE OUR CBC”. […]
Association of Canadian Choral Communities calls for programming moratorium
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Statement to CBC
from the membership of ACCC
(Association of Canadian Choral Communities)
May 16, 2008
The ACCC (Association of Canadian Choral Communities) is unanimous in its opposition to recent unilateral decisions taken to erode classical music and diminish the presence of Canadian classical artists and creators on CBC Radio 2. These cuts do not represent the stated […]
SPOTLIGHT: One family’s involvement in the Stand on Guard for CBC Coalition campaign
Friday, May 16th, 2008This is an inspirational account of what some of our neighbours are doing in this campaign!
Karl Raab, a Vancouver Point Grey resident, is one of our many parent activists involved in the campaign. He maintains his liaison with Lord Byng Secondary School Music Program through the music teacher there, Scott MacLennan. On Friday evening, May […]