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This is kind of a re-post from Facebook (yes, can you imagine), and I thought it would be appropriate to put it here instead. I mean, I hardly use LJ anymore, but it's still <33x1000^infinity. Plus, FB is for creepers, something I am trying not to be, albeit unsuccessfully. Anyway, here is a semi-rant-post about my ex-favourite radio station, CBC Radio 2. Actually, it was the only radio station that I listened to regularly, and it was only for this one program - Music and Company with Tom Allen.
I'm not sure who else here enjoys their classical music coupled with humour and trivia from an exceptional host, but I sure do. Music and Company was absolutely perfect; there was something interesting every morning. The selection of music was superb, ranging from early baroque to 20th century classical (none of that extreme atonal stuff, though), and the recordings were all done by wonderfully talented groups. Not to mention the terrific segments, like Cage Match, where pieces of music are metaphorically pit against each other so they could battle violently and spill each other's metaphorical blood. I can say with confidence that Tom Allen hosted the best radio program on the air. And he did it so well, too. Where else would I find out that Le Chavalier de Saint-Georges (the Black Mozart) skated a warning to Marie Antoinette onto the ice in front of the palace of Versailles during the Revolution? Wikipedia? Well, maybe, but I sure would rather hear it coming from Tom's babely voice.
And now it's all gone. CBC Radio 2 underwent some changes. And by "changes", I mean a revolution that purged its best and implemented puppet programs to try to deceive its small but loyal audience. Radio 2 has been raped, and now it is left crying, mourning its degradation and broken pelvis. But instead of howls of pain, it screams music that makes me want to slit my wrists. Or abandon Radio 2 in its weak and forlorn state, even as its feeble hand clutches onto my trouser leg, begging me to stay.
But I don't think I can. Not even for Tom Allen.
I'm not sure who else here enjoys their classical music coupled with humour and trivia from an exceptional host, but I sure do. Music and Company was absolutely perfect; there was something interesting every morning. The selection of music was superb, ranging from early baroque to 20th century classical (none of that extreme atonal stuff, though), and the recordings were all done by wonderfully talented groups. Not to mention the terrific segments, like Cage Match, where pieces of music are metaphorically pit against each other so they could battle violently and spill each other's metaphorical blood. I can say with confidence that Tom Allen hosted the best radio program on the air. And he did it so well, too. Where else would I find out that Le Chavalier de Saint-Georges (the Black Mozart) skated a warning to Marie Antoinette onto the ice in front of the palace of Versailles during the Revolution? Wikipedia? Well, maybe, but I sure would rather hear it coming from Tom's babely voice.
And now it's all gone. CBC Radio 2 underwent some changes. And by "changes", I mean a revolution that purged its best and implemented puppet programs to try to deceive its small but loyal audience. Radio 2 has been raped, and now it is left crying, mourning its degradation and broken pelvis. But instead of howls of pain, it screams music that makes me want to slit my wrists. Or abandon Radio 2 in its weak and forlorn state, even as its feeble hand clutches onto my trouser leg, begging me to stay.
But I don't think I can. Not even for Tom Allen.