Walter Meyer wrote:

>Was it on this list or somewhere else that I heard the following
>explanation for radio stations to avoid classical music? Classical music
>tends to be longer than popular music and hence leaves less time for
>commercial breaks.  (Of course this does not fully explain why public
>broadcasting stations are also moving away from CM.)

There's moves afoot in American public radio to get away from CM as
a result of extensive polling and "research" into the tastes of its
listeners.

Fine, except that if this variant of "focus group engineering" does for
public radio (and for whatever classical music that survives) what it does
for automobile styling, then I'm not too encouraged either.

Anybody for a Lexus "von Karajan" edition? Powerful, smooth, beautiful
workmanship that's flawlessly executed--but how memorable or challenging
is it?

Bill H.