tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post597293312207091962..comments2007-07-30T08:32:14.571+01:00Pliablenoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-81060062062790809582007-07-30T08:32:00.000+01:002007-07-30T08:32:00.000+01:00<I>Email received</I><BR/><BR/>I am an Englishman currently living in Portland Oregon. I heigh from East Anglia, grew up in Norwich, went to school at Framlingham College (about which the least said the better) and spent some of the happiest times of my life singing with Benjamin Britten at Aldeburgh and elsewhere. I say this to give you a greater understanding of why I enjoy The Overgrown Path so much - it is a connection to my home, to my youth and to happy times. Thank you! <BR/><BR/>By the way, your quotation attributed to Sol Hurok is also attributed to the baseball player Yogi Berra in which iteration it appears as "If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em". I have no idea which, if either, of these is the more accurate. <BR/><BR/>Best wishes,<BR/><BR/>Stephen LlewellynPliablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-43115768454148558582007-07-29T23:27:00.000+01:002007-07-29T23:27:00.000+01:00Thank you Pliable. Your Greek birthday-concert for Mikis Theodorakis sounded beautiful here on my iTunes player, and I look forward to your next broadcasts on Future Radio.<BR/><BR/>Like you I'm interested in the classical music life in general and in the radio. And yes, I am looking for alternatives.<BR/>Unfortunately we are facing a grotesque situation here in Denmark because of incompetent government policy: The Danish BBC, DR, are building a great new media house for radio and TV, including a new concert hall for the National SO by the architect Jean Nouvel. However, the financial costs of this house are so overwhelming that the government has forced DR to sack a lot of their best employee's, and to make sharp cuts in the programs as well. <BR/><BR/>The results are all to clear: Repeat broadcasts and common repertoire in huge quantities, Mozart, Beethoven and Mozart again and again. <BR/><BR/>Therefore, instead of this misery me and other Danish music lovers are tuning in to the Internet's radio world. Thats how I found your Overgrown Path and the Radeo site. And thats how I became a daily listener to the excellent Norwegian station Alltid (Always) Klassisk. If not a Danish, I must have a Scandinavian favourite, after all.Jørgen Falckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15852631155511043544noreply@blogger.com