[atlantaprog] Re: WABE

Me again! Some points I forgot to make...

> This makes me sick. I'm sure these "media activists" are also trying to
> convince their children's schools to cut out the music and art classes
> in order to try and bolster their kids' standardized test scores.

I don't see how you can make this leap... as I stated earlier, I come 
down firmly on the side of these "activists", yet I am strongly opposed 
to cutting out music and art classes, and I think standardized testing 
is one of the great evils in our public education system. I just don't 
see how you make this correlation.

> The term "classical music" embraces 400 years of musical material from
> all over the world, or at least the parts of the world that come under
> the heading of "western culture". "Classical music" is not one style of
> music. It's  hundreds.

Not if you listen to WABE! Czarina Lois seems to only be aware of the 
"classical" top-40 - I bet she doesn't make it through the day without 
playing Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc. I'd bet WABE plays the 
Bradenburgs almost as often as 92.9 plays Stairway to Heaven! 
Occassionally she'll slip in an accessible Glass or Adams piece, or 
something from a film soundtrack (she has a thing for John Williams I 
think). If they truly embraced to diversity of so-called "classical" 
music, I might think differently.

AWG

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