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1. Classical
a) Many / still valued - ! a % age of the collection/concerts, intuit it!?
b) Many / any flops? % of those bought/attended if you still have them2. Jazz a) and b)
3. pop/R&R ditto
4. musicals
5. cabaret (incl. brecht/weil?)
6. C&W
my numbers
1a 35-40%
1b, <0.5%2a 30%
2b 0%3a <10%
3b <2%4a 20%
4b 0%5a 50%
5b 0%I've been living with a GOOD-sounding / full-limiting / low-multipath FM system for a long time, off one excellent and zero processsing source and one with a very little. All but one or two others are LOUDDDDD!
WarmestTimbo in Oz
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...and I spend a lot of time (in the car especially) listening to it (realtor, travel on busniess). I also listen quite a bit at home.One of the main reasons I listen to radio is to discover new artists, new composers, new pieces and new performances. This is true for classical, rock, folk, jazz - any music.
Not so much an exact response to poll questions but between a very few FM stations I'm able to access (non-commercial) the yes, radio still does influence my music listening selections.
We have the national CBC in both English and French (two different frequencies) and they play everything! From all over the world in all types of genres from all eras.
Then there's the publicly funded "CKUA" which is a province-wide broadcaster and they also play music from every possible corner of the world.
And as back-ups there's the college station "CJSR" and an ethnic broadcaster (CKER)
So we're not hard done by for alternative music sources that allows one to expand one's musical horizons. An amazing diversity of styles.
My QUAD FM4, fed from a di-pole on the roof, does the major reception work.
jac - desperaudio
Personally I'm not so enthusiasitc about CBC Radio 2's new, broader programming. I was happier with mainly classical.
Bill Bailey
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CBC radio up here in Canada plays a great cross section of all styles from classical (daytime) through jazz (evening) and world/ethnic music (afternoon and evening) to independant rock and experimental (late night and early morning)They have a great sound (even on Satellite).
I have been turned on to a great amount of music through this station.
Only recently, they have changed format and begun to play more mainstream stuff and less independant and experimental (even late at night).
This raises a big HMM for me, as I've really liked the experimental stuff...
Oh well. A minority once again, I suppose...
"David! You can KILL a man with a chopstick!" -Keith Charles, Six Feet Under
There are several good stations in my area, all listener powered, where I can hear jazz, blues, classical, folk, celtic, bluegrass, alt.rock. I always keep a pen and notebook in my car and also near my computer for those times that I hear something new and hope that the dj back-announces.
i essentially listen to two stations, KKJZ 88.1 (KKJZ.org) and KCRW 89.9 (http://www.kcrw.com) in the los angeles area. kcrw is a broad base programming, eclectic as they call it, kkjz is all jazz and blues.both display playlists and many purchases have been made as the result of what i hve heard on the air, just the same as JAZZIZ magazine.
...regards...tr
This is a public college station in the SF Bay Area that received a donation of a major commercial station's voluminous collection of jazz. All kinds of jazz, all hours of the day and night with ZERO commercials, news, traffic, etc., except for the regrettable quarterly fundraising breaks.This is my major source of inspiration concerning the music I enjoy most. It's a real pleasure to hear and learn all the time. Then if I consistenly hear and like an artist, I go out and buy. Buying before trying is a no-no for me as there are too many "one track wonder" discs in the world for my taste!
YOu can catch KCSM streaming on the web. I don't know the streaming URL, but their playlist is jazzlist.org Try them out anywhere you have a computer.
I'm only a few miles from their miniscule transmitter, so I get excellent reception. Love listening to FM in general in my locale, but too few good stations. Sadly, crap music has taken over the airwaves in the US when it's even music at all!
My big regret on modern high end audio sources is that the CD players are all now single disc players. I don't like that as much as the variety of songs you hear in the same space in time on the radio. I used to mimic that with multi-disc changers, but they don't seem to make them in quality audio anymore. Sigh....
I listen to little radio, mostly in the car where it's usually ABC FM which is largely classical and my serious listening these days is mostly jazz. Very little in the way of jazz on air over here in Oz, but my main jazz listening on the radio is JazzTrack if I'm in the car at that time. Both Jim McLeod and Mal Stanley seem to have different tastes to me so I rarely buy anything from what I hear on air though it sometimes happens. When it does, it's usually someone I've never heard, or who I've heard and passed over but they play a track that grabs me and I race out and chase it down.I also listen to Margaret Throsby's interview at 10.00 am on weekdays if I'm in the car. Surprisingly, I seem to do nearly as well by picking up things from some interviewee's choices as I do from JazzTrack. Unfortunately a lot of the choices made by Margaret's guests are the standard classical reportoire which tends not to drive me to the record shops though I did race out and buy the Drottningham Baroque Ensemble's version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons on Bis after hearing a movement played by Clive Robertson on the breakfast program a few years ago. I've got quite a few classical recordings in my collection, not as many as I used to have, but if I buy classical these days, it's more likely to be new music rather than the standard reportoire.
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