Len Fehskens <[log in to unmask]> replied to Karl Miller:

>>When it comes to the broadcasting of classical music...I believe much
>>of what I have heard from NPR and PBS do more harm than good.
>
>Could you elaborate?  I am hard pressed to imagine how the four hours
>of CM that WGBH in Boston broadcasts every weekday morning is harmful
>in any sense.

WGBH-FM offers some fine classical radio programming indeed - and that
is becoming more and more of a rarity with local public radio stations
- but that is not NPR programming per se.

More typical of NPR is the five-minute item on All Things Considered,
or somesuch, profiling a classical musician, or a cute moment in the
life of a classical musician - and then failing utterly to bother to
identify the snippets of music played by said classical musician.

To be fair, most of the non-classical music profiled on NPR has something
distinctive to contribute - almost always (but not always always) worth
a listening.  And they have presented the occasional item covering a new
work by a living classical composer.

 - seb