tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post6111465867330198956..comments2007-02-22T16:26:44.916ZPliablenoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-56880776061878496822007-02-22T16:26:44.916Z2007-02-22T16:26:44.916Z<A HREF="http://renaissanceresearch.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">Garth Trinkl</A> writes:<BR/><BR/><I><B>And don't think the loss of live music on BBC Radio 3 after 7pm, except for the Proms and one offs, is a little local problem here in the UK. It will affect the commissioning and performance of contemporary music from around the world, and will put the livelihood of many fine musicians at risk.</B><BR/><BR/>Pliable, if you think that BBC Radio Three is committing a serious crime against contemporary musical culture and the livelihood's of contemporary musicians, you should see the huge criminal acts being committed by the newly restored Classical music station in America's nation's capital -- WETA-FM, which now (unlike a generation ago when concerts from Ameican orchestras and European radio systems were relayed on a delayed and weekly basis often featuring major American, European, and Japanese classical music world premieres) plays virtually no contemporary music by living composers, or virtually any American composers for that matter! They do however still broadcast the Metropolitan Opera so that Tan Dun did get some exposure early last month as the only living composer of classical music worthy of cultural consideration in America today.<BR/><BR/>See:</I><BR/><BR/>http://www.weta.org/fm/Pliablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com