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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Sept 15, 2018 5:12:24 GMT
the best! www.canyon-news.com/secret-lives-of-classical-djs/78165The witty, stalwart Svejda stick to the rich trove of Classical, music. He continues to curate it nightly from 6 p.m. to 12 midnight, ending always on note as fresh as the opening teasers. This kind of resiliency one cannot but envy as we grimly face the troughs and valleys of making it through the day. So we honor the classical DJ par excellence, Jim Svejda. |
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Post by thornberry on Oct 21, 2018 3:25:44 GMT
the best! www.canyon-news.com/secret-lives-of-classical-djs/78165The witty, stalwart Svejda stick to the rich trove of Classical, music. He continues to curate it nightly from 6 p.m. to 12 midnight, ending always on note as fresh as the opening teasers. This kind of resiliency one cannot but envy as we grimly face the troughs and valleys of making it through the day. So we honor the classical DJ par excellence, Jim Svejda. I'm sure I heard him on my local radio station years ago. There were earlier DJs I loved better, but he was good. I looked him up in Wikipedia which didn't corroborate that, but I did find this information: "While admitting that they sometimes have turned out excellent recordings, Svejda has been critical of such illustrious musicians as Vladimir Horowitz and Arturo Toscanini, as well as Herbert von Karajan (whom he has excoriated for his alleged Nazi past) and especially Nikolaus Harnoncourt, whom Svejda has called an "incompetent bozo."[4] He tends to favor conductors and musicians who do not follow a printed musical score literally, and his guidebook, The Record Shelf Guide to the Classical Repertoire, often will recommend a controversial recording of a piece (such as Sir Thomas Beecham's 1959 recording of Handel's Messiah), alongside a more traditional one." I'd like to read his book. It would be fun to read someone who is critical of these sacred cows, not that I necessarily agree with him. |
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