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Sunday, December 6th, 2009[EDITOR'S NOTE: My friend, Shirley Bradley, sent this letter to CBC Radio 1’s Early Edition re: the visit of Hubert Lacroix and the phone in on Thursday morning, December 3. Published here with her permission.] The callers to your program on Thursday morning (Dec 3) and eloquent visitors to your studio on Friday morning (Dec [...]
Three videos from Public Forum on CBC July 8 2009 Vancouver
Saturday, August 15th, 2009A Public Forum on the Future of the CBC July 8, 2009 Vancouver Plublic Library Charlie Angus on CBC holdback http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ex1IwMoZfU Charlie Angus on CBC and patronage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8azo4XBeeNY Charlie Angus and Bill Siksay on CBC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGsPvSvZtgY
Loyal CBC listeners would object to ads
Thursday, February 19th, 2009The Ottawa CitizenFebruary 11, 2009 Re: Heritage minister defends Tory cuts to arts funding, Feb. 10. The possibility of advertising on CBC radio is not a new idea. It has been considered and rejected in the past, for valid reasons. The CBC’s condition of licence from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission forbids advertising (except [...]
What makes classical Classical?
Sunday, September 21st, 2008The term “classical music” – once so clear in meaning – has become murky. On the one hand, it is invoked in a positive sense, to suggest “bestness”; on the other hand it has acquired (in some circles) negative connotations of stuffy over-formality and pretentiousness.
Change is in the air and I don’t like it – The Chronicle Herald
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008By Peter Duffy THE TRUTH IS, I’m having a bit of trouble with change. Once upon a time, I could handle it without any problem. I’ve changed jobs on a whim. (Twelve newspapers in 15 years.) I’ve lived in more towns and cities than I can almost remember. Change? It’s been my life, ever since [...]
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 [...]
Cam Trowsdale’s CBCR2 National Response Bibliography
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008If you prefer to download a single document that contains much of the information found on our web site, why not download the CBCR2 National Response Bibliography! Cam Trowsdale, (of CBC Vancouver Orchestra and Vancouver Opera Orchestra fame) has been collecting public commentary on changes at CBC Radio 2 since the announcement of the elimination [...]
CRTC should set 15% classical music content : Letter to the Editor – Ottawa Citizen
Monday, September 15th, 2008Re: Nesrallah helms watered-down Tempo, Sept. 6. If the devil is gentle, he will find a special niche in purgatory for the executives of CBC Radio 2 who planned and authorized the “de-classicalization” of the network. These people are dumb and inhumane. As a Citizen reviewer wrote, “they’ve dumped most of the classical music and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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