letter to jennifer foster--wdav--apr, 2010

Dear Jennifer---You must know by now of my out-sized esteem for you and all you do and stand for, nonetheless I need to jump in here with a complaint. I do believe WDAV is programming too much of the kind of music which just left off--that is, in the closing minutes of the 10 o'clock hour. You announced who it was but I didn't cath it. It was period music, going back probably to the 18th or 17 th century when royalty and their various nobles sat around in ornate salons, admiring one another and eating grapes while these chamber groups and small orchestras were playing stuff which anesthetized half of them--al the while the rest of humanity was out in the fields bringing in the crops for their dinners. It is the music which I have to believe led in part tp the French revolution. beheadings and the like.. I am not saying that it should be all Richard Strauss, or Wagner, or Berlioz or the like but anything you play which is replete with trills, should go. yes, I think that should be the test--how many trills per minute---more than 7 and I would get rid of it. Otherwise I think the world of WDAV, of you, of Ben, and everyone there! xoxo Bernie