WDAV to Produce NPR World of Opera

December 18, 2009 | DAVIDSON, NC – WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio announced today that as of January 18, 2010, the station will take over production of National Public Radio’s World of Opera, keeping in place NPR’s successful creative team of host Lisa Simeone and producer Bruce Scott. WDAV General Manager Benjamin K. Roe is the new [...]

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Boston’s Classical Shapeshifting

By Marty Ronish, Scanning The Dial
Posted December 17, 2009
Before I talk about Boston, I want to thank those of you who made suggestions about better Xmas programming. Even without actually hearing the music you suggested, I can hear it in my head and it makes me smile. The wonderful trio from Berlioz’s L’enfance [...]

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Never Listen to Céline? Radio Meter Begs to Differ

By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
Published: December 15, 2009
American men have a naughty little secret. Sometimes, they like to relax with a little Céline Dion. Professed classical music fans have one, too: as it turns out, they don’t tune into classical radio nearly as much as they claim.
These are two of many findings shaking up the radio industry [...]

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How many people are really listening?

By Mike Janssen, Scanning The Dial
Posted December 16, 2009
Hello, readers of my poor neglected blog. Apologies for not having posted for some time, but the usual deadlines have kept me away. Let’s jump right back in, though, with a look at a new way of measuring radio’s audience that is affecting all formats, including classical.
People [...]

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$1.77 million could stabilize Charlotte Symphony’s future

Group only $100,000 short of its urgent fundraising target
By Karen Garloch
kgarloch@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009
The struggling Charlotte Symphony is less than $100,000 away from meeting its year-end goal of raising $1.77 million to become financially stable.
If it meets the goal, the symphony expects to get $900,000 from the Arts & Science Council, which [...]

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Web audience grows for arts groups

By Jacqueline Trescott
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Americans are increasingly choosing the Internet and other new media to enjoy the arts, a new national survey has found.
While many adults still like the intimacy of live theater, particularly musical theater, over the past year an estimated 47 million of them chose to watch or listen [...]

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Washington Times Features WDAV

Mark A. Kellner, Technology Writer for The Washington Times, posted a reviewon November 25, 2009 of the Sonos ZonePlayer, a wireless internet music system. And what long-distance classical music station did Mr. Kellner tune to when he tested this new music gadget? WDAV, naturally!
Minutes before the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys were to square off [...]

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North Carolina Station Prepares Spanish Classical Music Station

Here’s the English translation of an article that appeared in Yahoo News, produced by the EFE News Agency.
November 10, 2009
Charlotte, NC: Next year a FM radio station in North Carolina will launch the first classical music station in Spanish in the country, reported its promoters today.
Under the name “Concierto,” the station will be broadcast on [...]

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Classical music station may get Spanish channel

By Mark Washburn
mwashburn@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Saturday, November 7, 2009
Charlotte’s classical-music station, Davidson College’s WDAV-FM (89.9), is looking at adding a Spanish channel.
Called “Concierto,” it would be broadcast on one of WDAV’s HD radio channels and streamed on the Web. HD radio is a digital broadcasting service that requires a special tuner to pick up and enables radio [...]

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Our music, our selves

An educator shows how music can map the inner workings of our soulBy Karl Paulnack
Special to the Observer
Posted: Sunday, May. 10, 2009
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/165/story/710453.html
EDITOR’S NOTE: Karl Paulnack, director of the music division at Boston Conservatory, first gave this speech to parents of students in 2004. It has made the rounds on e-mail locally among honchos in the [...]

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