Radio 3 shrugs off falling ratings
The News Review:
- Radio 3 shrugs off falling ratings
- Light in a time of darkness
- Bubble tea shop owner brings local music art flavor
Radio 3 shrugs off falling ratings
BBC News – Sep 26, 2007
“They made a lot of changes when Roger Wright came in and I was thinking ‘h I don’t like this – where’s my programme? Where’s something I want to listen to?’” explains Sarah Spilsbury one of those involved in creating the organisation. “More and more I was finding programmes which didn’t seem like what Radio 3 used to do sticking a bit of Broadway or light jazz music in the middle of classic programmes and I didn’t like it. Ms Spilsbury says Radio 3 has become “too chatty and trivial” and would prefer it to be “more serious”. “Everything I know about classical music I’ve learned from Radio 3. I’m not an expert but when I’m listening I want to sit down and I want to listen carefully to what they put on.
Light in a time of darkness
Prague Post – Sep 26, 2007
Despite traveling throughout the world — an unreachable privilege for most of his compatriots during totalitarian rule — Anderle was anything but a communist protégé. He never joined the Communist Party. “The one who loves jazz cannot become a member of the Communist Party” Anderle a great devotee of classical and jazz music says with a faint smile. “My life has just been marked by a long chain of lucky coincidences. ” The fortunate series started as early as in his childhood which was spent in the small village of Pavlíkov in central Bohemia. It was a period he remembers as a beautiful time full of magic. A local teacher encouraged him to apply for admission to an art college in Prague and Anderle left his rural background for the fine arts school in the Czechoslovak capital in the early 1950s.
Bubble tea shop owner brings local music art flavor
Daily 'Collegian – Sep 26, 2007
In the future Metzinger hopes to expand his business in Stillwater by having a bigger shop. Metzinger said he is planning events to intrigue students to stop in. The Ben Hayes band will play jazz music Friday. The time is still to be announced. 12 Da Bubble will host a Halo 3 tournament. Anyone may participate with a $5 donation which will go to Stillwater?s Habitat for Humanity.