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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 I was […]
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 — […]
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 of […]
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 watered down […]
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 […]