Touching on This and That

At La Folia’s semi-annual writers’ brunch… I learned that I receive the most mail.

Wagner’s Ring Tones

A bit of non-music blather on the ray-de-oh announced that, globally, the customized cell-phone ring business is a $3.1-billion industry.

Listening to the Radio. Again.

I really do more than listen to the radio. Sometimes I drive around and listen to the radio.

Letter from the Provinces: The End of Music Spells the End of Us All

What prompts such a fatalistic letter? Why, nothing short of the end of the music we know and love.

Another WHRB Spring Orgy

Last year I wrote about WHRB’s Spring 2003 Orgy, when this local, college-affiliated station devotes long consecutive hours to all of a given band’s recordings or composer’s works, as close to complete as recording allows.

Mahler on the Radio

It’s easy to imagine the Symphony of a Thousand’s cast standing alert, their bright, beaming faces ready to emit three cheers for Faust.

WHRB’s Spring 2002 Orgy Period

This season, listeners were treated to about 176 hours of Franz Joseph Haydn.

Letter from the Provinces, Number Two

My outpost here in quaint New England is within range of three radio stations that can be classified as classical.