{"id":26846,"date":"2014-05-19T22:16:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/?page_id=26846"},"modified":"2014-05-21T14:25:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T21:25:24","slug":"hybrid-highbrow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/hybrid-highbrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid Highbrow: news about classical radio around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"radio<\/a>Welcome to Hybrid Highbrow, Radio Survivor’s classical radio page. Here you will find news and opinion on classical radio and classical recording sharing around the world. My own perspective is that “classical music” should be understood in the broadest sense, happily coexisting with other genres such as jazz, Broadway, and non-western genres such as Chinese opera, Gamelan, and Egyptian Oud. I also think that the concept of “radio” should be extended not just to AM\/FM, but to podcasting, Pandora, Spotify, and other venues capable of reaching mass audiences.<\/p>\n

For me, the phrase “Hybrid Highbrow”<\/a> encapsulates these ideas. \u00a0Latest stories below. Follow our Twitter page<\/a>. More soon. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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When it comes to classical music (and classical radio), don't mess with (San Antonio) Texas<\/a><\/h2>
Posted on <\/span> 14. April 2019<\/span><\/a> by <\/span>Matthew Lasar<\/a><\/span><\/div>

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Musician Barry Brake<\/a> writes to us from San Antonio, Texas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Just this year, Texas Public Radio's KPAC San Antonio<\/a> has started a new classical show, 1\u20133pm weekdays, called Classical Connections<\/a>, that features music and musicians from San Antonio, the Hill Country, and Texas, as well as standard fare from our massive classical library. Visiting musicians, local stars, up-and-comers, directors, and composers drop by to talk. Often there are live on-air performances. We'd love to be listed on your page! Thanks for doing what you do . . . \"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So I popped into the Classical Connections site<\/a> and instantly I was enjoying this fantastic piece by Ethan Wickman to celebrate San Antonio's Tricentennial. It is performed by the SOLI Chamber Ensemble<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saul Levine, radio pioneer, still advocating for independent media<\/a><\/h2>
Posted on <\/span> 29. December 2018<\/span><\/a> by <\/span>Matthew Lasar<\/a><\/span><\/div>

\"Hybrid<\/a>Variety has a wonderful profile<\/a> of Los Angeles radio pioneer Saul Levine, age 92, who launched his first classical music station KBCA-FM almost 60 years ago. Author Roy Trakin obviously had fun writing the piece:\r\n

Like Daniel-Day Lewis in \u201cThere Must Be Blood,\u201d Levine bulldozed the land atop Mt. Wilson \u2013which he leased from the U.S. Forest Service for $350 a year \u2014 driving the tractor himself. He acquired a transmitter from a defunct Michigan station for $1,500, had an antenna crafted out of a lead pipe, and bartered commercial time on the yet-to-air station for a $300 flag pole so they could broadcast. He even built a makeshift studio on the site itself, where an eccentric Seven-Day Adventist-turned-engineer who literally lived off the land kept the station on for as close to around the clock as humanly possible.<\/blockquote>\r\nSince then Levine has operated classical, jazz, and even country music stations. I am most familiar with his K-MOZART<\/a>\u00a0outlet, available at FM 105.1, via HD, and online. He predicts that terrestrial radio will last another \"15 to 20 years.\"\r\n\r\n\"It\u2019s free, it\u2019s local, it\u2019s live,\" Levine told Variety, \"and it\u2019s the only medium that deals with your community.\u201d

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There's a place for us (and it includes Jewish music + oldies)<\/a><\/h2>
Posted on <\/span> 24. November 2018<\/span><\/a> by <\/span>Matthew Lasar<\/a><\/span><\/div>

\"Hybrid<\/a>Soprano Nadine Sierra<\/a> has produced a beautiful new album titled \"There's a Place for Us.\" The signature song comes from the musical West Side Story<\/em>. But the message is definitely Sierra's. \"No matter what happens in this world,\" she says in an interview<\/a> about the album, \"no matter what kind of negative messages are being sent by certain people, eventually if we all stick together\u00a0 . . . we can find a place for all of us to live freely, happily, and with ample love.\"\r\n\r\n