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From: parker@psuvax.UUCP (Bruce Parker)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: radio station music programming
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Date: Sat, 19-May-84 11:29:33 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 19 11:29:33 1984
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Dave Schneider's mention of classical radio stations' music programming
reminds of the tales I've heard from friends at Indiana University
in Bloomington, Indiana.  It seems that a few years back, a number of
music faculty submitted a petition to WFIU, the campus station, demanding
that they only play music composed between 1700 and 1920.  (No more of this
Claudio Monteverdi-Terry Riley nonsense, thank you.)  They were ignored.
Well, almost:  they were dubbed the Classical Fascists by the station staff.
This was followed by a petition from the Jazz department claiming
that nothing good has been done since Bird died (or some such foolishness)
so please don't play anything recorded after 1955.  They were dubbed
the Jazz Nazis.

During my tenure with WDFM (State College) I got several calls from an old
fellow who claimed that music died in 1828 with Schubert.  Of course
then there was this Shakespeare teacher I had at IU that claimed that
music went awry when it left the church -- oh, say, 1600.

Silly me.  I still can't believe that people are so narrow-minded.

Bruce Parker