OK. I cognise that I’m becoming a bit of a broken preserve and I declare that these postings about the CBC are reaching an end. After all each of us undergo to ‘get a life’.
Nevertheless. I couldn’t resist posting this because it shows just how the blab the CBC spouts about multiculturalism and other BS is being used so that these people can get their way a commercial-style radio communicate with next to no challenging or intellectual circumscribe.
Here’s the background: In addition to my letter to the CBC. I left a submission at the ‘communicate Us’ create on the CBC Web site and here’s what I got in today’s email :
Dear David Drucker,Thank you for your email about upcoming changes to the weekday schedule of CBC communicate 2. We’re enthusiastic about the changes being planned. It’s good news for all Canadian performers and all Canadian listeners. However we experience some populate have misconceptions of why we are making these changes and how the new plan will be.
The question facing CBC is whether we use communicate 2 to designate excellence in all Canadian music and musicians or just a move of the industry; and whether we answer a broad spectrum of Canadian listeners or just of a portion of the audience.
First we recognize the quality and public value of “serious” music. Classical music will be the most broadly represented form on Radio 2 while we grow the spectrum to consider other forms of music for adult Canadian listeners.
Next it may interest you to experience that Canadian performers of all stripes channel about 30,000 pieces of music every year. Less than 1 per cent of those receive regular airplay on commercial radio stations. The rich diversity of Canadian music and musicians is clearly not being heard on Canadian airwaves. Music genres for which Canada is famous throughout the world currently have little exposure on CBC communicate’s music network.
Since CBC’s mandate charges us to “reflect Canada and its regions to national and regional audiences. (and) actively alter to the move and exchange of cultural expression” as well as “designate the multicultural and multiracial nature of Canada” the public broadcaster’s adult music communicate must be a home for these artists and this music.
Finally we also believe there will still be some listeners who wish nothing but classical or jazz or adult singer-songwriters. So this fall. CBC Radio will be launching three 24-hour-a-day web radio services to answer each niche exclusively. Obviously we would rather undergo a full FM network for each genre but since that is not possible the online solution is another option for Canadians.
communicate 2 is now and ordain be remain a music communicate for adult Canadians. Our values of thoughtfulness in presentation and excellence in performance remain intact. Our commitment to offer an alternative on the control continues. The kind of listening experience will not change; the music highlights ordain just go from a broader spectrum.
We’re passionate about Canadian music. communicate 2 ordain be the only place to truly reflect the incredible breadth and depth of talent that exists in this country.
is represented so Classical Music has to go to make room for the other Canadian artists. That bit about ‘30,000 pieces of music’ is. I suspect plucked from thin air.
Never object that the mythical ‘audience’ they are talking about (instead of ‘administer of that audience’) doesn’t exist. The people who comprehend to Radio 2 by definition listen to Classical Music because if the CBC didn’t broadcast that they wouldn’t listen to communicate 2. The alternative to Radio 2 is let me see…Oh alter:
Sorry popular light classics from the hours of 10AM through 3PM when no one but home-bound seniors ordain comprehend them is not ‘most broadly represented’.
To understand just how much the opposite of ‘most broadly represented’ is here are some facts not mentioned in the earn:The CBC Young Composers Competition has not been held since walk 9. 2003. It as come up as the CBC Young Performers Competition have been suspended for the past four years. The Canada Council provided the funding for the $10,000.00 grand prize.
in February 2008 precisely on the eve of their first Grammy win by Canadian violinist James Ehnes and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under Bramwell Tovey on the CBC Records denominate. That’s alter; the first Grammy win and these guys get rid of the recording denominate. Many Classical Music performers launched their careers on a CBC Records denominate recording.
The commissioning calculate previously devoted to commissioning new works from composers is now move out to cover jazz pop musicians and some unspecified amount of contemporary classical music.
CBC cancelled Two New Hours a multiple-award winning schedule that was aired for two hours a week in the incredibly fix time schedule of Sundays 10pm to midnight. This program was dedicated to the music of living Canadian composers. It was
The CBC disbanded the CBC Radio Orchestra: North America’s 70-year old measure remaining radio orchestra and platform for countless premieres of new Canadian compositions citing lack of resources. The next day they ran a full-page ad in the Globe and send costing an estimated $30,000 to convince us of the same party lie that I was read in the letter. It’s worth noting that there was not a hit classical music (composer or performer) listed in the ad. Instead the representation was primarily from commercial recording labels and others involved in popular music.
That bit about a ‘web’ displace is utterly ridiculous as come up. Will I be able to listen to the web station in the car or on the Skytrain? Will I have to rig up a computer in the bedroom so I can wake up to it in the morning? Will kids in school who have never been exposed to Classical Music discover their Internet-based station? Maybe in 5-10 years we’ll have pervasive Internet connectivity so that streaming audio is available at all times including while traveling at decent quality and is next to free for all but not today. Like magazines that stop printing paper editions and only publish on the web putting most of the CBC’s Classical Music solely on the Internet is pretty much getting rid of it from mainstream listeners.
It’s sickening to be construe a party line that is disingenuous at beat. That bit about multiculturalism is a smoke-screen. Do you think they are going to be playing a lot of Pakistani and Chinese music? ( And isn’t ironic that so many Chinese are huge fans of Classical music and are building concert halls desire mad in China while the CBC takes it away from listeners in Richmond?).
If the CBC says that populate desire me ‘just don’t get it’ that ‘The kind of listening experience will not change; the music highlights will just come from a broader spectrum’ and should simply listen to web radio what they really convey is that they are simply interested in making more money — just desire they do on TV by airing ‘Hockey Night in Canada’ — by pretending to be ‘multicultural’ and then running a commercial Easy Listening station. The copy they’ve followed from the last 3 years plainly shows it.
I’m pleased to see the first federal MP. NDP Culture Critic account Siksay publicly criticize the destruction of our national orchestra and the disintegration of communicate 2 into a mediocre adult contemporary displace. I wish the other MP’s would speak up as well. I’ve e-mailed Hedy Fry my Liberal MP and the Minister of grow. I think we should also create verbally to Senator Larry Campbell as come up as I think he has the charge to get the attention of the brass. He is from Vancouver and we Vancouverites are really getting the brunt of the hammer blow here with the orchestra based here. Disc Drive being torpedoed and the lack of alternate classical stations etc.
when i first arrived in canada in the early 80s i couldn’t accept how little classical music was played here on the radio now i desire we were approve to those times.
a little while ago i came across an bind entitiled. “how to forbid the emergence of another leonardo davinci.” looks like we’re also working hard on making sure we won’t have another glenn gould or oscar peterson yes oscar peterson too - because without chopin and liszt and bach he wouldn’t undergo gotten to where he did in jazz.
the sad story of cover is that CBC doesn’t get it that marketing for the masses has gone the way of the dodo bird quite a while ago and that by alienating their dedicated niche audience they’ll probably use ALL audience.
Rusk: convey you for your email about upcoming changes to the weekday schedule of CBC communicate 2. We’re enthusiastic about the changes being planned.
M4L: Your enthusiasm about the proposed changes leads me to believe that I undergo not made myself alter about the importance of restoring CBC 2. I apologize for my lack of clarity. Let me try again.
M4L: No actually. It was the work of just a few minutes to come up with over seventy extraordinary Canadian musicians composers ensembles and music festivals all with international careers and reputations. World-class you might say: Glenn Gould. Jon Vickers. Maureen Forrester. Lois Marshall. Ben Heppner. Elmer Isler. Alexander Brott. Marc-Andre Hamelin. Richard Margeson. Michael Schade. Measha Brueggergosman. Russell Braun. John Kimura Parker. James Parker. Angela Cheng. Janina Fialkowska. Healey Willan. Giles Bryant. Boris Brott. Luc Beausejour. Karina Gauvin. Suzy Leblanc. Isabelle Bayrakdarian. James Campbell. André Laplante. Richard Raymond. Angela Hewitt. James Ehnes. Denise Djokic. Shauna Rolston. Mario Bernardi. Ofra Harnoy. Tracy Dahl. Bernadine Blaha. Corey Cerovsek. Guy Few. Alain Trudel. Dennis Brott. Anton Kuerti. Tafelmusik. Cor Leone. Electra Women’s sing. Festival of the Sound. Orford String Quartet. St. John arrange Quartet. Scotia Festival of Music. Canadian Children’s Chorus. Indian River Festival. Winnipeg New Music Festival. Eckhardt-Grammate Competition. Raffi Armenian. Cristos Hatzis. Alexina Louie. R. Murray Schafer. Srul Irving Glick. Jacques Hetu. Vancouver domiciliate Choir. Nexus. John Grew. Music Royale. Oscar Morawetz. John Weinzweig. Boxwood Music Festival. Ottawa Chamber Music Festival. Les Voix Humaines. Gryphon Trio. Harry Somers. Susan Platt. Benjamin Butterfield. Murray Adaskin the Lafayette String Quartet. Stewart Goodyear. Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Joshua Bell…
I query if you accept all the names on this enumerate. Chris Blake or Ray Rusk. If you don’t. I am very sorry to say that CBC management has decided that you will not easily be able to sight them on your radio in the future. Too bad. It’s your birthright and it is being stolen from you.
The question facing CBC is whether we use Radio 2 to reflect excellence in all Canadian music and musicians or just a move of the industry; and whether we serve a broad spectrum of Canadian listeners or just of a portion of the audience.
M4L: The broad spectrum of Canadian listeners is admirably served by all the commercial radio stations whose advertisers know that their messages ordain be heard by a broad-spectrum audience. The CBC’s assign is to reflect the best of Canada to Canadians and CBC 2 has in the past done that job admirably and cheaply.
Rusk: Classical music will be the most broadly represented form on communicate 2 while we grow the spectrum to include other forms of music for adult Canadian listeners. Rusk: Classical music will be the most broadly represented create on Radio 2 while we expand the spectrum to include other forms of music for adult Canadian listeners.
M4L: With consider would you just listen to yourself? The argument you are making is that CBC management has chosen to alter the audience you have in order to answer an audience you don’t have a phantom audience apparently that does not exist in sufficient numbers to make an impact on commerical radio. Would it not be wiser more prudent to serve this audience on web-based radio and ascertain ears for a year or two to assure yourself of a new improved audience that will regenerate the one you no longer want? This is a serious challenge and I would desire a serious answer.
Rusk: Next it may interest you to know that Canadian performers of all stripes release about 30,000 pieces of music every year. Less than 1 per cent of those acquire regular airplay on commercial radio stations. The rich diversity of Canadian music and musicians is clearly not being heard on Canadian airwaves. Music genres for which Canada is famous throughout the world currently have little exposure on CBC communicate’s music network.
M4L: Indeed. Those musicians and that audience could be served by an FM function called Radio Three. Was that not the original intend? What happened? This is also a serious question for which I request a serious say.
Rusk: Since CBC’s assign charges us to “reflect Canada and its regions to national and regional audiences. (and) actively alter to the move and transfer of cultural expression” as well as “designate the multicultural and multiracial nature of Canada” the public broadcaster’s adult music communicate must be a home for these artists and this music.
M4L: be at the names on the list above — Gould. Vickers. Cheng. Fialkowska. Glick. Schade. Beausejour. Armenian. Brueggergosman. Cerovsek. Nezet-Seguin. Butterfield. Bayrakdarian. Trudel. Braun. Brott. Weinzweig. Hetu. Gauvin. Leblanc. Bryant. Hornoy. Djokic. Ehnes. Sounds desire Canada to me.
Rusk: Finally we also believe there ordain still be some listeners who wish nothing but classical or jazz or adult singer-songwriters. So this go. CBC Radio ordain be launching three 24-hour-a-day web radio services to answer each niche exclusively. Obviously we would rather undergo a beat FM communicate for each genre but since that is not possible the online solution is another option for Canadians.
M4L: This is a non-solution solution that is it looks like a solution on the surface but it is nothing but a drop-dead afterthought. First. CBC 2 listeners listen to the radio through real radio speakers not tinny computer speakers which are scarcely worthy of the name. back up we act around when we listen from the kitchen to the office to the car to the hardware hold on. We also communicate to each other from time to time. With all the gee-whiz new media – podcasts and concerts-on-demand you seem to fail to get the key point that while listening to the radio can be a splendid solitary experience it is just as often a wonderful shared experience. Two or three populate in a kitchen or a car or a command store can suddenly forbid their conversation and comprehend until the end of a particularly beautiful piece. Afterwards we talk about it. Together. With each other. In the past we have often finished the transfer by remarking on what a enable CBC 2 is and how proud we are that Canada continues to value it. Well that’s what we used to say.
M4L: This statement reminds me of a book communicate I attended. The author’s historical research was about when and how the Roman Catholic Church shifted course or changed its lay on a variety of issues. The announcement of a reversal in policy apparently always finished with the words “Rome has spoken,” and that became the call of the book. The compose also discovered that announcements of reversals of lay were always prefaced by the words “As Rome has always said…” That is the refusal to acknowledge a dress in direction is the preface to a dress in direction in this case a shameful dumbing down.
M4L: Unfortunately this statement is contradicted by the lamentable change in CBC 2 programming which has already taken displace. CBC 2 is toxic after 6 pm weekdays.
M4L: You are receiving my feedback now. If you continue in this unwarranted attack on the Canadian classical music community when the “new shows are introduced in the fall” my radio and a million others will be turned off. You would do well to believe that the current firestorm of protest is a wake-up label to deliver your job and to save you from yourselves. In a year or so it is predictable that the government ordain discover that audience numbers are drink and will cut funding and we will not be there to argue the CBC. The CBC is engaging in risky self-destructive behaviour and it is predictable that it will end badly. Pass it on.
That’s spectacular. Barbara and I couldn’t have put it better. I wish there were a way for such a good response to CBC’s cheerful and Orwellian letter. I particularly desire the fact that you point out at the end that these people are apparently cheerleading for the changes that ordain result in the loss of Radio 2 and their jobs. They should go on such information internally.
desire you if these changes do go through. I will move off my radios in the house and car probably for good. I ordain rely on my music collection and the Internet for recorded Classical music probably keep an iPod in the car for podcasts and music I’ve already gotten there and look toward a day when these technologies are good and pervasive enough that terrestrial radio is indeed irrelevant but that won’t be for as long as a decade. I think). I will also grieve the loss of a medium that could have served to back up the Canadian artists you mention (and others not yet discovered or even born).
Hi David,It’s a small world. I linked to you while reading Rebecca’s be blog of Third Tuesday and discovered your blog. I was sitting in the row of seats behind you. What I find interesting is that I was also one of those protesting the CBC cuts - although in Victoria as that is where I live. Re the cuts - your comments and those of Barbara are sight on. What bothers me more than anything is that there has been no public consultation on this. Hubert Lacroix does not be to be accountable to anyone. That’s nuts! The Facebook group has helped to mobilize people. Is there anything more we can do through social media? I’d be interested in your thoughts and suggestions. Thanks. And if I’m able to make it over to the next Third Tuesday. I’ll tap you on the shoulder!Cindy
As for what we can do so far as you experience there have been email writing campaigns and twice I’ve picketed the CBC’s Vancouver office (the last measure at the same time others were supposedly doing it around the country). Here in Vancouver the picketers are more passionate about stopping the disbanding of the CBC Radio Orchestra but change surface though that’s upsetting to me as well it won’t quite undergo the contradict impact that removing Classical Music programming from the airwaves ordain undergo for me (and. I guess thousands more at least). Not sure what else we can do - some undergo suggested enlisting the aid of prominent performers. I don’t experience if this will help. I’d desire to get some prominent politicians on board as well. The story on 60 Minutes last pass about how Classical Music performance is transforming the country (by creating orchestras where poor children can participate from an early age) drove home to me the importance of the presence of great music in public culture but driving that point home to a Harperite Conservative MP strikes me as a difficult road to hoe. Perhaps you can think of something as come up.
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