I realize federal funding has been dramatically reduced. And I realize that you must sell yourself to the listener more than ever. And enlightenment is not always accompanied by functional harmonies played by pretty strings. Music should stretch the listeners and invite them to think. It should not be a Muzak soundtrack to one s life.
Music is an interactive art form it requires the participation of an active listener.
If all you feed your listeners is a steady diet of the same music, which contains minimum diversity of melody, harmony, rhythm, form and emotional content, then you are helping to kill our art. Music has grown in the past two hundred years, yet there is very little evidence of it on your air waves. If you don t expose this music to listeners you are hastening its demise. Contemporary compositions recently heard on your station include Dvorak s New World Symphony and Copland s Appalachian Spring . These are fine works, but as examples of the most progressive sounds on your airwaves it is appalling.