This is even worse than what just happened to classical music radio in Boston:
Can it really be that our nation’s capital, home to the National Endowment for the Arts, Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian, not to mention our federal government, may possibly soon be without any classical music radio station?
Don’t at least a few of our nation’s leaders need to kick back with Bach at the end of the day?
This latest broadcast broadside is the sixth in what is, sadly, turning out to be a continuing CultureGrrl series about disenfranchised radio listeners (in addition to the first link, other installments are here, here, here, and here).
The good news for the classically challenged is that New York’s WQXR, previously streaming only on AOL, can now be heard free on the web, here.
Get someone to give your computer a good set of speakers for the holidays!