Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for November 30, 2018
November 29, 2018
December 03, 2018
Transcript:
richard's poor almanac - by richard thompson whither classical music? weta radio's recent betrayal & abandonment of classical music was yet one more blow to this mighty yet faltering art form. weta radio guy: scram ya high-maintenance fancy-pants! musician: but - maybe the trouble started when people tried to quantify classical music's "therapeutic benefits," reducing it to dieitary fiber for the brain. oop: look at him! he listens to mozart all day & he's learned squat! waste of time i say. the collapse of the recording industry sure didn't help! nowadays stores hide their puny classical cd section in the men's room, next to the baby changing station. and the bins are infested with "new age" stuff (this is known as "yanni-creep"). guy: yanni? eurgh. so, is there a place in the future for classical music? one word: ringtones. man: it's mahler's third. it rings for an hour and forty minutes before i hafta answer. woman: whatev, nerdo.
Teto85 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Really. There used to be 2 and 1/2 classical stations in the SF Bay Area. Then the NPR affiliate went to an all news/talk/game show format and the two full time classical stations slowly and inexorably went off the air. Sad. And don’t talk to me about the demise of the Jazz stations.
DCBakerEsq over 5 years ago
I thought classical music meant The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
Joliet Jake over 5 years ago
Yawni in the classical bin? I once went into a record tore that had his stuff in the jazz bin.
Sisyphos over 5 years ago
Poor Richard; D.C.’s loss. In my Chicagoland we still have WFMT going strong, thank Goodness!
fishbulb239 over 5 years ago
Happily, the comic is dated. WETA went back to being almost exclusively a classical station (with some time devoted to news) quite some time ago. WAMU now carries the talk-only NPR flag for the region. Perhaps we owe this happy outcome to Richard’s quite public disdain of the change!