at least in the looks department:

http://blogs.wfmt.com/offmic/2013/10/06 ... nne-nance/

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

not clicking unless there is nudity

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Certainly an upgrade over George Preston in the looks department, if nothing else.

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Looks like Bernstein's wife

I'd say for sure.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

She has a very pleasant voice. Gentle, smooth, not too high. You can hear the smile.


<3

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I hope Leary can book her for no apparent reason.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Oh, there'll be an apparent reason. Believe that.

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You know me like that.

Just busted out "O Fortuna"! Feel like I should be watching a highlight montage for the Undertaker.

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"We just wanted to have you on to talk DePaul hoops. Can I get a hug now. Remember, we are just friends, unless you really like me and want to do more, but I didnt say that too offend you just to see if you might have wanted to just do something one night, but only if you want to, not like going out on a date, I mean just like friends Ya know."

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

"So tell me more about this Veerdy."

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Hayden Wednesday.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Larry better not have her on when he's filling in for Terry. All that studying classical music the night before, and Dan just spends the whole segment talking to her about his favorite places to eat lobster in Maine when he visits his Met Opera contact. SUSANNAH'D

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

Youth movement going on at good old WFMT:

http://www.robertfeder.com/2013/12/05/y ... gram-wfmt/

I wonder if people said "play less opera" during the last membership drive, because hoo boy, they love their opera.

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Noel Harris, who I assume is their Ten Foot Midget or something, wrote a nice piece about LaTraviata for their website. Two Saturdays ago they were doing a "Behind the Music"-type program about a legendary 1948 live radio broadcast of La Traviata conducted by Toscanini. I found it very entertaining, so much so that I was I was casually looking for a place to shoehorn in a joke about you, me and ike south listening to it whilst tripping balls on microdot.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

Wow. That's a face not made for radio.

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of making WFMT younger and hipper. I'm in my twenties and I'm more or less happy with WFMT as it is. Of course, I'm not the average guy in his twenties, but then the average guy in his twenties is never going to listen to WFMT anyway. And it's not like they haven't made concessions already. From what I understand, it used to be that the old WNIB (d. 2001) was more middlebrow and would pretty much just "play the hits," except that in this case the hits were by Beethoven and Vivaldi. Meanwhile, the old Ray Nordstrand/Norm Pellegrini WFMT was purportedly so unyieldingly esoteric and academic that it would make your head hurt. Of course, I missed out on the Chicago classical radio duel firsthand; I was busy listening to B96. But my point is that WFMT has already assimilated the old WNIB audience that just wanted classical music they already knew, and I feel they've done well balancing that with the more challenging "fine arts" fare that they feel is their base and their civic responsibility.

Realistically speaking, the classical radio demographic is never going to be more than what it is, which is the old, the rich, and the academy. I mean, all I can really think of is cutting opera airplay down to Lyric/Met broadcasts and overnights, because opera is just so polarizing as far as fine-arts music goes. Even the Music Choice service on digital cable discontinued the opera channel a few years ago. Other than that, they're already doing a show of new Chicago releases on a weekday evening and Relevant Tones on Saturdays, but those shows are basically for people in grad school for music; even I get sick of Relevant Tones. They could expand their folk programming, but they're already devoting a lot of time to folk as it is. I don't know how else you're gonna make The Vaunted 18-34 Demographic start listening to Kerry Frumkin in afternoon drive. Just don't do, like, Vitamin String Quartet renditions of classic rock songs all day. That shit is the death rattle of symphony orchestras in places like Tulsa.

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The only way to survive is play the same old shit. Just like the four classic rock stations in Chicago. The whole situation is hopeless.

I don't mind a little opera if done right. Actually what I want is variety - early music, modern, plainsong, whatever. Just make it interesting. Not the same old shit....the same reheated 10 minute snippet of a much longer symphony.

Hopeless. Totally hopeless.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

easy now, RPB might be right. without the pro makeup/lighting/photo-retouching, Nance IRL could be only 2 beers and a shot this side of Bernstein's wife territory.

Well, I most certainly have no interest in plainsong, but I do hope they stay committed to a deep library. I saw in an another article that so far they plan to do a quiz show and a weekly newsmagazine show, like All Things Considered but just about local fine arts. I suppose if anything, that last one indicates moving away from going middlebrow.

Always worth noting is that WFMT is a rare station that gets to have it both ways on revenue: they're a not-for-profit, so they can hold membership drives, but they're not on an 88-91 frequency, so they can run commercials. They can withstand a drop in billing as long as friends of the station keep signing big checks, and I doubt that will ever be a problem in this city; we all know it's not those little $50 pledges here and there that this side of the revenue is all about.

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I don't mind announcer read commercials at all. I'm funny that way. Play a Kars for Kids commercial and its PTFB.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Haha, imagine WFMT hosts reading the copy for overplayed Score commercials.

Thee whole town is talking about...the Webb boys. See your Webb family dealer...today.

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They could have Rachel Barton Pine play various songs from Arcade Fire and Dawes.



For some reason I really like the reads for Gethsemane Garden Center. I don't know why, they just kinda make me feel good.

I was listening to Introductions today, and while I know the young musicians introducing the music is part of the deal, one guy went on -- in a somewhat monotone voice -- for what seemed like 20 minutes introducing the piece and I yelled "OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE JUST PLAY IT ALREADY!" to no one in particular in my car. Later, though, I heard portions of La mer...so that was nice.

Who knew.

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Tom Hanks and Fred Armisen mash up

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

http://www.robertfeder.com/2013/11/29/r ... top-again/

According to the can't-call-'em-the-Arbitrons, WFMT has fallen out of the top 30 and is now trailing a country station licensed to Valparaiso. I can't believe it's come to this. No wonder they felt they had to make a move.

V103 is a really good station, by the way. 9 times out of 10 when I go past it, I hear something I like. It's too bad they lost the WBMX callsign; would've been nice to keep that lineage.

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I listen to classical music not so much WSCR