[atlantaprog] Re: WABE

From: "Allen Welty-Green" <agmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> > 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.

Yes, Ms. Reitzes plays mostly the greatest hits of the genre, but is that
any different from Z93, 96 Rock, 99X or any other commercial station in
Atlanta for that matter?  They all aim for the middle of the bell-curve of
taste within their format, but that's no reason to convert any of the
stations to talk.  You can get political and social commentary from
newspapers, magazines, websites and books, but classical music in Atlanta
only comes from one source and shouldn't be diminished.  The obvious
solution is of course to have two stations but failing that, I think WABE
should remain a mostly music format.

Brian
Lord Only

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