Classical music radio announcers

[Fred Blumenthal <xd2fabl...>]

I'm corrected by Robert Cohen, who caught me over-generalizing about 
classical music radio announcers.  In fact, I've done some of that myself 
at community radio stations here in St. Louis, and as a graduate of Ithaca 
College (Bachelor of Music, 1968) I may have even heard Mr. Cohen on the 
air.  My cheap shot was a reaction to what I hear from the Lutheran-owned 
station here insane Lewis, altho' some recent trips to Louisville (not 
usually thought of as a center of high culture, or am I doing it again?) 
should have taught me that not all stations share KFUO's flaws.  But in my 
training as a musicologist I was taught to cite my sources of information, 
just in case they were wrong, and Delius being Jewish would be a big 
surprise.  (That's also why I phrased it as a question.)  Then, this 
morning, I again heard that apocryphal story about Joseph Haydn's 
manuscripts being used for wrapping paper in a butcher shop, but I heard 
it ascribed to J.S. Bach.  So I return to my side point, which was to take 
musical lore heard on the radio with a grain of salt.

Fred Blumenthal
xd2fabl (at) us(dot)ibm(dot)com