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Pace 7/4 above, I'd encourage anyone one Facebook or Twitter etc to keep sending up flares though it's important to realize noone involved with the station's programming, in any of its genres, can be pleased with this. The New York Times article obscured more than it clarified and appeared to be poorly edited too, like two articles-- one germane, one not-- jammed into one, both a mess. What's troubling is the quetion of HOW this happened and why, thus far, to WKCR alone? Legal counsel or no, it's bizarre that the station can't address the issue in anything the vaguest way. Is it the combo of over-the-air broadcasting, streaming + regular extended single artist programming: in addition to the Birthday Broadcasts, the memorials, the festivals? Dig from the WKCR archives--

No news, no streaming sucks; espcially tonight I missed beloved Sharif Abdus Salaam 6-9 pm & though it's remarkable there's a total blackout on this from WKCR itself, one hopes that's on the strong suggestion of whomever is negotiating there way out of this mess. Meanwhile, was hipped to this from Phil Schaap Facebook a few years, a photograph which assurdedly does not suck-- left to right: Sonny Greer, Eddie Durham, Snub Mosley, Schaap. SNUB!!!

Kolisch is a great band, great Schoenberg & great story behind the recording. Re: visceral, it was always thus but Arnold especially was victim of long-time smear campaign by simp 'conservatives' (cf. composition &/or performance practice) on one side, adulatory but dessicated epigones the other AND, latterly, recordings (esp. the later Boulez) that wanted to turn Schoenberg into a kind of ersatz ur-Webern-- this from those who'd already sucked the blood from Anton, sometimes rendering him merely a brilliant craftman, pointillist. But that was all bullshit. While varied interpretations are welcome etc, if you're not playing Schoenberg w/ at least the gumption of peak-Wagner and Brahms, you're playing it wrong, baby. I think I posted this elsewhere but Fred Sherry'4-tet on Naxos (under 'supervision' of Robert Craft, whatever that meant exactly) is also superb, & if ya'll have heard Fred elsewhere, you know he's no simp. *** Mitropoulos cond. Orchestal Variations Op. 31, I believe this is the Berliner PO 1960, last seen on Orfeo, the Donuts can put when the Greek baldie tells 'em too!

Ooof. Thanks for that, even if it is, as expected, sickening. I must withdraw the suggestion that WKCR might not have known this; seems likely they did and though they might have communicated it better, they were just fucking paralyzed by the vultures that never gava a godammn about their kind to begin (despite the immense promotion such stations-- including that of Ghost above-- do for musicians both living and dead-- but alive in their publishing.) So to take Max Roach as an example, let's say, probably without exaggeration, that WKCR's 24 hours of Max on 10 January will present more Max that day than all other American radio stations combined... By not renewing the small, non- / low- profit webcast exception, the "Sound Exchange" (sic) is benefiting the owners of Max Roach publishing, the publishing that of non-Max tunes Max performed, & those myriad record companies that still own certain Max Roach albums precisely how? a higher fee / % of nothing = ???

Thanks for that, Ghost... & uh-oh. I wonder if this unfortunately took the station by surprise-- student management cycling in / out over the years, long-ish time 'operations manager' no longer at station-- thus the haste / terseness of the non-explanation. fwiw, Princeton's WPRB (which has excellent classical shows) seems unaffacted-- http://wprb.com Today's (Sunday) WKCR five-hour Jazz Profile is on Ella on the broadcast side at least they're not changing. rhetoric sidenote: some of the language / provisions in that "Webcasters Settlement Act" is gross, to say the least; remember WKCR did TWO WEEKS of all-Duke for his Centennial...

Man, that's TERRIBLE news! Hopefully just a question of computer resources, absurd as that sounds given that WKCR has been streaming for well over a decade... Sometimes (often?) with TWO streams, one mp3, the other 'Real Audio'... These options were useful not only for those outside broadcast range but people at work without a radio AND they could split up their programming: music etc broadcast, some lesser sports event (that noone actually cares about but the participants & broadcaster) on one of the streams. What I don't like-- what worries-- is the obliqueness of that statement: 'reasessing our ability to stream online...' I was traveling last week, tried to connect to Bach fest and couldn't but just assumed it was over capacity. Shame this happened with Max Roach Birthday Broadcast imminent too. *** p/s: WKCR Facebook starting to get questions / comments-- https://www.facebook.com/wkcrfm including those upset they live out of town, happily donated to WKCR & now this... Even with the occasionally 'difficult' relationship between WKCR Sports and the rest of the station (their jazz, classical, Americana, arts, community etc is all excellent), I can't imagine this benefits anyone so hopefully its just a bump whose announcement was poorly done.

I believe some people know Marcia Hadjimarkos' superb Mozart and Haydn discs for Zig-Zag, well her C.P.E. Bach is at least as excellent-- Some Zig Zag discs are elusive and others are being reissued so hopefully this is findable. Hadjimarkos a U of Iowa double major in French lit and piano performance btw, for all the classical 'Hawkeyes' on the board.

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FYi, that photo is absolutely NOT Robert Johnson, nor is the previous one this zany (not in a good way) lady 'authenticated.' I understand her wanting to step out from the 'obscurity' of police forensics etc but she's plainly wrong (and I hope her police work was better). hambone willie newbern 1929 kokomo arnold 1934

Late-- my fortune or mis-, with the Rifkin you've happened upon a set whose primary, if not only, virtues are 1) its musical significance and 2) its (relative) historical accuracy. Rifkin not just important figure in Joplin performance but one-to-a-part Bach also and though I am admirer, these are somewhat particular side and not, perhaps, the 'best' of their kind. That said, I'd recommend them strongly over the vast majority of their ponderous, ersatz romantic predecessors, including early those conducted by well-intentioned but ponderous early-ish HIP-ster Karl Richter. Instead, I'd go for a Phillip Herreweghe cond. set on Virgin; his recodings there been collected / anthologized various ways and though I have issues with one of his countertenors (Charles Brett), overall his accomplishment is high. Any single Herreweghe Bach disc on Harmonia Mundi will also be wortwhile The Suzuki cycle on BIS is estimable but currently pricey in single volumes, all the latter ones hybrid SACD. Though sometimes creaky / raw, the Harnoncourt conducted cantatas in the Harnoncourt / Leonhardt cycle are always interesting, often enough excellent. For J.S. secular cantatas, Rene Jacobs is tough to beat. Better to know a few works very well than get caught up in the budget box / false 'bargain' tombstone bullshit (though someday you might indeed want all the Bach cantatas.)

ANY Medtner / Wild & / or ANY Hampton Hawes (electric piano included) >>>> ALL fucking Jarrett (Dewey included) Hamp came to mind because Jarrett's fucking insipid ersatz 'gospel' influences (as if) and his insipid fucking standards trio: DeJohnette gets a pass, barely; Gary Peacock does not. Mitigating Factor: Jarrett's classical records are soporific at best but a U of Texas music school student invited me to her house and though not a record collector, opened her thighs with Jarrett's DSCH Op. 87 P&F accompanying. In this context alone is Jarrett tolerable.

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picked up Francescatti / Casadesus complete Beethoven sonatas for $2 yesterday, better condition than this but still not sure it's worth it; I'm Casedesus admirer for sure & know Francescatti a 'unique' & 'acquired' taste but... if someone offers me $2 i might pass it on.