Evening Music
American Vernacular
Airs Saturday, May 26 and Monday, May 28 at 7PM on 93.9 FM
Conductor Robert Spano has specialized in reaching new audiences with new repertoire as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The three-time Grammy award winner weighs in with a survey of the American contemporary scene. Also, George Preston talks with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas about American concert music and its groundbreaking composers.
Over the last several years, I have several times considered becoming a member. However, you keep cutting back on music broadcasting, and introducing more talk shows. It wasn't enough that you reduced music broadcasting to evening hours -- now you're replacing the remaining music broadcasts with "talk about music." That's talk, not music. This year's American Music Festival is a case in point: when I tune in, I hear short snippets of music, soon interrupted for the sake of inane chatter. If I contributed now, I'd feel that I was encouraging you in your ongoing destruction of a great New York musical institution.
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