Please think of our children, CBC – Letter from Vancouver Island mother
Friday, May 16th, 2008Thanks to K. McFarlane for allowing us to publish her letter to local MPs. I am writing to ask that you do NOT support the cut of any Classical programming on CBC. I am an avid CBC radio listener and guess what I am NOT 80 years old. I am a 33 year old single [...]
Lets cherish our dearly loved CBC Radio Orchestra – Letter to Editor, Vancouver Sun
Monday, May 5th, 2008Published: Monday, May 05, 2008 I’ve had this pain in my chest ever since I heard about the administrative plan to disband the CBC Radio Orchestra. I have heard that this is the result of CBC’s desire to have more multicultural programming. Multiculturalism has always, to me, seemed to be an “adding to,” not a [...]
Appalled at the CBC canning of orchestra – Letter to Editor, Vancouver Sun
Monday, May 5th, 2008Published: Monday, May 05, 2008 I am appalled at the CBC canning the CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra (whose music was used as part of the presentation to get Vancouver the Winter Olympics!). It defies logic to abolish an orchestra with a 70-year-old tradition whose very existence confounds those many countries with radio orchestras who view [...]