Posts by Paul Litterick
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I resent somebody getting cake for saying something so stupid.
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.and tell us some audience composition figures, perhaps.
Why would they matter? Do you want confirmation that the audience is old and white? What if it is? Would that make a difference?
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Experienced him live in 1973, not easily forgotten, but comtemporary? No way.
Contemporary (note spelling) means post 1975, in classical terms; and before anyone says "Zappa wasn't a classical musician," that person should consider the works for orchestra he wrote.
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I always thought of Concert listeners as liberals and that National voters listened to Breeze or More, or one of those other stations that never plays a song you have not heard before. But I have no evidence and perhaps my collision with the furniture caused me unnecessary pain.
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Unlike Concert, which has a large domestic audience overlapping considerably with National's voter base...
Look out desk, here I come...
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Gimme my Frank Zappa FM and we'll call it square, OK ? :)
K. NatRad did a six-part doco on Zappa recently, The Radio is Broken. It was good to hear a locally-made but not locally-sourced programme. I guess it was made for the export market but still, it was nice to hear an international programme and one about contemporary music. The private sector is not going to do that sort of thing, or any sort of doco.
Earlier in the day, people on this thread were saying that private stations cost $9 Million a year, as if Radio NZ were too expensive. But the private stations have to run on shoestring budgets, because there are too many of them; and so they will not produce documentaries or recordings or anything that costs money and requires planning. They spend their money on presenters. They play records, over and over.
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fifedoms
Fiefdoms. A fifedom would be like the Kingdom of Fife or a country run by fifers.
As you were.
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So, I challenge the notion that Concert FM remains a public good on the basis that its content is too narrowly focused.
It is narrowly focused on some of the best music ever made, music which is not played by any other channel. That is a public good. It is also, as you say, elitist; but that is an aesthetic good.
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I was not actually calling for Concert FM to be shut down, more that I was disagreeing with the notion that it was (in it's current form) a Must Have that the market could never provide for.
You were objecting to it being Eurocentric; which is more than a little silly, given that the musical traditions which Concert addresses are mostly European. It is akin to objecting to the number of dead white males represented in Auckland Art Gallery.
Besides which, how much traditional Maori music is known? And isn't the taste contemporary Maori music largely met by the market?
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Chamber music is good for you.
And don't forget to check out the new ETA range of snackfoods.
Sorry, but I thought we should try sponsorship options to keep minority opinions on PAS.