Well, Classical WETA-FM, in Washington, D.C. -- wh...

2008-01-24T15:13:00.000Z

Well, Classical WETA-FM, in Washington, D.C. -- which celebrated its first birthday on Tuesday, January 22 -- had announced that it was going to be broadcasting the Naxos American Classics recording of Charles Tomlinson Griffes's Symphonic Fantasy for Two Pianos (with pianists Michael Lewin and Janice Weber) at 11 PM, so I dragged myself downstairs at 11 PM to listen to it but was greeted by some Neopolitan baroque music (the listing of which is now missing in action from the archived schedule). When I tuned-in last night at 11 PM -- again dragging myself downstairs --I did hear the outstanding Griffes's token American work.

I assume that Classical WETA-FM did not want to have American classical music on its First Anniversary playlist. (Sharon Percy Rockefeller, the President and CEO of Classical WETA-FM, was recently elected to the eight-member Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art, in Washington. Ms. Rockefeller's in-laws -- of course -- were major collectors, and donors to American museums nationwide, of outstanding American classical painting and sculpture.)

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