![]() The “Classics for Work” channel painted a flattering picture of the workplace with bracing, colorful pieces such as the Copland or unexpected bagatelles such as Dvorak’s polka “For Prague Students.” If I couldn’t make sense of the concept behind “Classical for the Soul,” I liked its quirky range. And if my Britten channel was inexplicably unsatisfying and I keep having to prune opera-lite tracks out of my Verdi channel (the last Pavarotti album and the intermezzo from “Cavalleria Rusticana” crop up like mushrooms), I’ve found a lot else to like. Perfect, perhaps not but I’ve heard a wide range of repertoire and a mix of fine recordings, from old Dorati releases of Dvorak to the soprano Ana Maria Martinez singing Villa-Lobos to - new to me - the late Soviet trumpet virtuoso Timofei Dokschitzer, whom Pandora presented to me in a transcription of a concerto by Hummel. I think Pandora gets a lot of things right, and its new stations are a step in the right direction. However, the real cue for eye-rolling is the Music Genome Project and the idea that you can break down music into 450 component descriptive parts, however precise the Britten example might illustrate just why this doesn’t work. The Beethoven Violin Concerto movement cited only the Utrecht Symphony I had to use Google to find out who the conductor and soloist might be. When you’re listening to Pandora on your iPhone, you often can’t tell exactly what piece you’re hearing, let alone who’s playing it - clicking on the image of the album cover gives you information about the composer, but simply seeing information about Rachmaninoff and a track listing for a piano concerto, with an album cover announcing “Berühmte Konzerte” (“Famous Concertos”), is not enough to let you know that you’re hearing the second concerto rather than the third, if you don’t know already. ![]() Since then, I've transferred all of my recordings (CD's and Ron Cuzner's radio programs) to a 160GB iPod Classic and more recently to iCloud.This should provide my cue to roll my eyes at how the Internet just doesn’t get classical music and enumerate all the glitches on Pandora to prove it. Over the years of listening to Ron's shows, I've developed my own Jazz music collection of nearly 1000 discs (vinyl and Compact Discs). I did manage to get all my recordings placed on a separate hard drive with help from an engineer of a local recording company. You can also find Ron Cuzner on Facebook hosted by an extremely supportive fan with an extensive knowledge of Jazz. These recordings (and many more from others) are now available FREE on podcasts to anyone with iTunes I collected over 50 of his programs on tape. His collection consisted of over 20,000 albums. Jazz never heard before and new releases only available to Jazz radio stations. Cuzner played Jazz from his own collection, Jazz from around the world. Cuzner's show did move from one station to another (over 10 different stations in Milwaukee), however, keeping the original concept in place, the majority of his 6 hour long shows were ad/commercial free, only to mention the sponsors name. The average cassette tape was only 45 minutes one side, (reel to reel was also not an option) so I decided to try VCR tapes and capturing the entire 6 hour program on one tape. Local radio stations years ago played Jazz then switched formats to accommodate the listener (Jazz was/is considered an old person genre).Īnyway, I started recording this particular Jazz radio program "The Dark Side" hosted by local jock Ron Cuzner. Clint, I've been listening to jazz for the last 40 years (started with a high school history assignment about events of the 1940's -50's)
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