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. Generally only short works, or single movements from larger works are heard.
Vocal music is almost completely absent.
Composers regularly overlooked include Stravinsky, Bart k and Shostakovich, not to mention Var se, Boulez and Messiaen. And it is not just new music that is absent from your programming. The majority of the works heard on your station are from the period covering roughly Mozart through Chopin. Virtually no Baroque and even less early music is to be heard. It seems that the goal of your programming is to find music that is pleasant, not too loud, too soft, too slow, too long or too demanding.