Re: Classical music radio announcers

[music <music...>]

Such a subject heading immediately brings to mind two such, from better
days for classical music in New York City:

Bill Watson, who used to broadcast "Listening with Watson" all night on
WNCN (o"h) and began each night with an exquisite quote from Shakespeare;

and

DeKoven--I don't remember his first name and am not sure he used one; a
*distinct* eccentric who broadcast what he inventively called "Barococo"
music and, especially, doted on Vivaldi.  He was bored by most slow moments
and would usually play only the uptempo ones!

--"Beethoven" Cohen (who programmed hundreds of hours of classical music
for WVBR-FM in Ithaca, NY)

-------- Original Message --------
   Subject: Classical music radio announcers
   From: Fred Blumenthal <xd2fabl (at) us(dot)ibm(dot)com>
   Date: Tue, March 11, 2003 7:35 am
   To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>

   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) ...


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