PBS's "Live from Lincoln Center" last night -- More unremittingly lowbrow pandering.

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Alice Tully (chamber music) Hall is to be closed for renovations, hence a "special". I happened to tune in on a really excellent performance of the last movement of Mendelssohn's Octet, the performers, unusually, except for the seated cellists, standing. I was gripped!
The PBS announcer afterwards said, "And that was music by Felix Mendelssohn. Next..."
They know their target audience (known as "carriage trade") doesn't care what the work was.
Classical radio stations these days, go the same route. On WCRB I heard the finale to Beethoven's Ninth: "And finally we had Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic, in music by Beethoven."
Good grief!
clark

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Topic - PBS's "Live from Lincoln Center" last night -- More unremittingly lowbrow pandering. - clarkjohnsen 09:39:53 05/04/07 (5)

Re: PBS's "Live from Lincoln Center" last night -- More unremittingly lowbrow pandering. - rico 13:07:53 05/04/07 (2)

"NOT ONE Monk tune??!" And there you have it: "Unremittingly." Time to disband PBS don't you think? nt - clarkjohnsen 07:39:51 05/05/07 (1)

Re: "NOT ONE Monk tune??!" And there you have it: "Unremittingly." Time to disband PBS don't you think? nt - rico 08:36:58 05/05/07 (0)

Choral music? nt - tinear 12:34:30 05/04/07 (0)

You grumpy old fart - Victor Khomenko 11:58:01 05/04/07 (0)

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