William Hong wrote: >The following story appears in today's Washington Post, signalling the >final coup de grace for Washington's broadcast radio market in classical >music. ... WGMS appears to be a classical music station only according to the dictates of a lowest-common-denominator broadcasting conglomerate. The Atlantic Monthly Magazine ran a lengthy story about WGMS a few years ago, and it was not very flattering; a subsequent letter to the editor from "management" was very dismissive about the station's artistic shortcomings. The assertion that classical pieces take up a lot of time is laughable. A quick perusal of the WGMS's playlist reveals one composition after another from which only one movement is played. When you see a listing like "Mozart: Symphony #40 in g-minor(I)", that means only the first movement will be heard... and if you observe the timing, that is, that the next composition is scheduled just 12 minutes later, then you can tell that WGMS has as many commercial breaks as a typical "music station". Laurence Glavin Methuen, MA