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Comment from jordan mclean
Date: March 26, 2008, 5:30 pm

Dear Terrance,
Welcome to our airwaves!
I have really enjoyed slowly getting to know your approach.

I am a NYC native, and a musical product of our public schools (up through my degree from SUNY Purchase, in “classical” composition) where I first started playing the trumpet 25 years ago.

I hope to meet someday and have the blessed opportunity to share some of my work with you.
Until that day, enjoy yourself, and keep us guessing.

Best,
Jordan

Comment from Ruth
Date: March 26, 2008, 8:06 pm

I welcome the diversity that you are bringing to the show - the classics supported by modern - rap, show, “new”

Thanks - a nice combination and a nice change.

Comment from Christina
Date: March 26, 2008, 8:10 pm

Toe-knee! Toe-knee! Toe-knee! That was great.

Comment from Brian Tourville
Date: March 26, 2008, 8:18 pm

Hi-T!

Please post the titles to the Classic Guitar Pieces you spun just before cellist Misha Maisky please - or send me an eMail?

I’m guessing Bach Lute Suites for Guitar - but it was a long time ago and not Advanced.

the Recording Artist holds great qualities by hooking the listener with the weaving of one or two stressful Guitar Student technical flaws in execution, drawing your attention to how nicely the rest is going.

but that isn’t why I wrote.

I’d like to acquire the pieces as a voicings study - they reminded me of the voicings John Lennon wrote around - Beatle_Esque as it whirr.

So, if I don’t hear from you - and I am forced to look up this evenings playlist tomorrow & see you have a Polka listed in place of the Solo Classic Guitar Pieces -

you’ll really piss me off, because I really really do not like Polkas….. in DOT form or other.

I compliment you on you choices of what I term : “meld music”

nice reflective thinking appropriate to the relaxation hours.. whoever thinks early evening or early morning deserve ROUSING TUNES deserves to be Republican.

take care -

B.

Comment from Annie
Date: March 26, 2008, 8:23 pm

Thanks for mixing it up! Nice versions of My Funny Valentine. Also, I’m happy to know there is a caring, imperfect, sometimes vulnerable human being playing the music. Yes, some of those guys who play music never make a “mistake,” but they are about as interesting as human beings as a piece of cardboard. Or they are just plain snobby!

Hey, I can’t listen to everything you play–there was someone banging on the lower register of a piano last night who completely ruined my mood and I had to turn him off. But for the most part I love that your heart really shows. And Go Marcus Roberts, Go!

Comment from Judith Bergoffen
Date: March 26, 2008, 8:26 pm

Thanks for playing “My Funny Valentine;” I didn’t catch the last name of the arranger, Kenny ?. I trust that whoever “rushed into” your studio to tell you that Richard Rodgers and Lorenz (Larry) Hart wrote the song made it clear that Rodgers was the composer and Hart the lyricist. The song was introduced in the Broadway musical, “Babes in Arms,” in 1937.

Since you are a Miles Davis fan, perhaps you’ll play his recording of the song on your program. Many other jazz instrumentalists have recorded it, as have jazz and pop singers, notably Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. Perhaps you and Jonathan Schwartz might chat about this some time.

I enjoy your program, appreciate that you’re finding your way to attracting a new audience
(I’m seventy-five and don’t need convincing about classical music) and would like to hear longer, uninterrupted musical selections.

Comment from Doug
Date: March 26, 2008, 8:32 pm

You get it: there is two kinds of music. Played well or played badly. Keep it up.

Comment from Robin
Date: March 26, 2008, 8:38 pm

Flipped over that hip-hop-french-japenese fusion of “My Funny Valentine” but missed the artist. Strange Garrison Keillor overlap at the end. (A mistake I think but somehow interesting.) How can I get info on that recording?? Please and thank you.

Comment from Danielle
Date: March 26, 2008, 8:46 pm

Hi, I listened to your show tonight, which I really enjoyed, and I would like to know the name of the trio whose song you played right before Billie Holiday. You played a remix of it before taking a break.
Thanks, Danielle

Comment from David
Date: March 26, 2008, 8:47 pm

Just finished listening to the show. The poetry overlap was pretty cool–just one, weird, rambling radio thing. I was developing film. It was cool. The music was great. The Gershwin, with all the liberty, was the safest of it all, but it still compelled me.
Thank you, and keep on doing whatever it is you’re doing!

Comment from Anne
Date: March 26, 2008, 9:15 pm

Fantastic show tonight! But if you’re going to play such great stuff–the My Funny Valentine versions and the outstanding Rhapsody in Blue–you must start publishing a playlist! I can’t find the Rhapsody on Amazon–could you identify the disc?
Many thanks
Anne

Comment from oe
Date: March 26, 2008, 9:17 pm

Nevermind the bollocks…

Some of enjoy the twist on things—especially if it’s an unexpected dinner guest like a rap version of “My Funny Valentine”. That was like getting a Czech candy confection whilst trick or treating Iowa…

Nice work McKnight, keep mixing things up!

Comment from Carla
Date: March 26, 2008, 9:18 pm

I want to say how much I enjoy the creativity and variety of your program. WNYC tends to be my apartment’s background noise, and I appreciate variety within it. The rap was a nice surprise too. I listen to NPR News with the hope of getting a wide variety of news and helping me become a well-rounded informed individual. Thank you for giving me different tastes of music too - helping me become more well rounded musically as well.

Comment from o.e
Date: March 26, 2008, 9:18 pm

Nevermind the bollocks…

Some of enjoy the twist on things—especially if it’s an unexpected dinner guest like a rap version of “My Funny Valentine”. That was like getting a Czech candy confection whilst trick or treating Iowa…

Nice work McKnight.

Comment from Tom
Date: March 26, 2008, 9:19 pm

Hi, Terrance:

Welcome to WNYC and New York City! I’m a lifelong NYC-er (65 years) and have been listening to WNYC for much of that time. Recently it’s been podcasts (Brian and Leonard, mostly) by day, Evening Music by night (and sometimes New Sounds as well). Your program has been without a regular weeknight host for some time, and I gather that’s you now, so it’s been nice getting to know you a bit. I especially like your deeply felt yet friendly, “come on in and join with me” approach to music and the variety of your selections. Some of them grab me more than others, but that’s inevitable, and sometimes it’s really nice to be surprised.

Your comments about Richard Wagner the other night got me thinking. Yes, he was in some respects quite anti-Semitic and had some other unlikeable personal qualities, but his music can really inspire. My great-grandfather, Leopold Damrosch, was a Jewish musician and conductor in Germany who admired and conducted Wagner’s operas, married a leading Wagnerian soprano, and came to be good friends with Wagner before bringing his family to New York City around 1870 and introducing American audiences to these operas when he was invited to conduct the second season of the Metropolitan Opera. One of Leopold’s sons, Walter, conducted the New York Symphony (now the Philharmonic) and persuaded Andrew Carnegie to build a new concert hall in New York; another son, Frank, founded the Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School) and the Oratorio Society; his daughter Clara married a Polish violinist in Walter’s orchestra, David Mannes, and together they started the Mannes College of Music (now part of New School University). Some people thought that Walter’s approach to music was stuffy and rooted too much in the 19th Century, but he also appreciated 20th Century composers, and commissioned a number of new works, among them George Gershwin’s Concerto in F. And all of this musical outpouring of a generation in New York may be said to have been inspired and encouraged, in some part, by Wagner.

Comment from John Cirace
Date: March 26, 2008, 9:21 pm

Dear Terrance,

I like your eclectic approach and your interesting anecdotes about the composers lives.

I just heard you talk about someone who said he wasn’t going to listen to Evening Music any more because you played one rap record. What a narrow view of music he must have.

Anyway, welcome to NYC Terrance.

john Cirace

Comment from Seymour
Date: March 26, 2008, 9:23 pm

Terence:

I for one have enjoyed listening to your show immensely BECAUSE of the diversity. Though I’ve always loved David Garland’s classical selections, I like even more hearing a mixture of classical, jazz, pop, rock, and even rap. I say “even” in response to your other listener’s narrow criticism. Though not a big fan I enjoy ANY music that’s performed with artistry and originality. For me good tunes are like great food - a great chef can find a way to make almost anything taste brilliant. Jimi Hendrix’ Star Spangled Banner is a perfect example. Nothing wrong with the original but wow, that interpretation!

-sgPond

Comment from Victoria
Date: March 26, 2008, 9:24 pm

awww, terrence, don’t feel no WAY about that comment you just read on the air about rap and such. If you please EVERYBODY you are not doing your job. That would be Lite.fm.

I expect every listener has their own unique reason for turning on Evening Music — for some it is background music for reading a book or the daily paper for another it is the soundtrack for chatting with their significant other over a late dinner or, in my case, I listen while baking cupcakes for my 11-year old’s birthday celebration in school tomorrow. Hardly a bunch tht can be easily satisifed with the same play list.

Sometimes I shake my head at the radio and walk into the next room to frost the cupcakes — the next minute, i am stopped dead in my tracks, soaking up a sound I’ve never heard before. Or, better said, never really listened to before……thank you, thank you. Glad to have you. Your breadth of selections leave me speechless.

Comment from dee
Date: March 26, 2008, 9:29 pm

As a long time member of the station (and volunteer for a “Triple AAA” station in Philly), it’s truly wonderful and inspiring to hear a great mix of music that makes me want to learn more about music in general.

This is public radio at its finest!

Thanks, Terrance…you’ve got a new listener.

Comment from George Showman
Date: March 26, 2008, 9:44 pm

I’m enjoying the show, though I cringe a bit at some of your comments that seem to sacrifice too much of critical thinking/listening to your apparent mission of placing all ‘kinds’ of music on the same plane. E.g. Nico Muhly: what I’ve heard of him so far on your show (a few different pieces by now) seems quite interesting, thoughtful work. But it’s very, very much contemporary classical music. Where’s the rock in this? Could you please play some of his more rock-like stuff? Or tell us where the rock is in this music?

Otherwise this seems like great formalist music, devoid of the overt cultural baggage of rock and roll. I.e., ‘classical’ from my point of view.

On your earlier ‘remix’ that garnered other comments: I just think this was bad music. The edge of the original song was lost in stultifying electronic rhythm and an intermittently incoherent and irrelevant voice-over. Admittedly that kind of remix is very difficult to pull off — I’m certainly not an expert. But perhaps as the months go by you can move towards a stance where you tell us why some of these pieces are worth listening too. Broadening horizons is simply not a strong enough argument, IMHO, for putting a piece on the radio.

Matt Haimovitz, by the way, is raging. You should put some of him on! Maybe some of his ultra-tempo-shifted takes on the Bach suites. I wish he would commission better pieces (recent Shakespeare album was a little drab), because he’s one of the most gifted performers I’ve ever seen.

Comment from karen
Date: March 26, 2008, 9:47 pm

Hi Terrance,

I had actually STOPPED listening to evening music Mon-Thurs for quite a while before you arrived because the different hosts’ selections invariably turned me off. I missed David Garland and William Berger who subbed for a while.
But you’ve turned me on to evening music once again. I like your cool, varied style. Keep up the good work!

Comment from BC
Date: March 26, 2008, 9:58 pm

(Reposting to what I think is the correct section)

A tribute to a classic like My Funny Valentine or not, the piece was a bizarre Korean (?) R&B/pop ditty. I think the problem is not that it doesn’t belong on a specific show segment per se, but that it doesn’t belong among music of a much higher caliber, regardless of what the show might be. I, too, was completely thrown by this smarmy selection. This is Top 40s pop radio fare, at best.

Perhaps the above posters are unfamiliar with the sound of mass-produced Asian pop music, but that was more or less it. The fact that it is a “remix” should scarcely add novelty factor.

The Garrison Keillor overlap was suitably interesting, though. I’m all for more of that kind of genre-bending.

Comment from Sean Gale
Date: March 27, 2008, 7:21 am

Terrance,

Thank you for bringing such a diverse program…last nights mix of Gershwin, Billie Holiday, and “Funny Valentine” was truly enjoyable. It is also nice to have a regular voice during the week creating a cohesive program, as opposed to a random assortment of hosts and music. And don’t worry, you’ll work out the pronunciations!

Bravo!

Sean

Comment from David Bush
Date: March 27, 2008, 11:14 am

Terrance,
Your selections have re-energized my interest in Evening Music and I’m sending in my membership renewal because
of you. Thank you for opening my ears to the juxtopposing
of styles that is your unique specialty. My ears aren’t tired
any more. You woke them up!

Comment from BDC
Date: March 27, 2008, 7:02 pm

Lounge Lizard Puccini… gotta love it!

Comment from Barbara Crafton
Date: March 27, 2008, 7:06 pm

So glad you’ve come to New York. Love the direction(s) of the show. I just wanted to say that I appreciated what you siad a little while back about a tasteless use of a crucifix in a performance piece, and I agreed with you. Sure, we’re free to say anything — but should we? Always? It ain’t necessarily so.

Hope you find your keys!

Comment from Barbara Crafton
Date: March 27, 2008, 7:18 pm

And another thing — weird, too: I just got a new laptop yesterday and was trying out its audio with the Marcus Roberts Gershwin CD. And what did you play last night? It may be a big city, but it’s a small world.

Comment from Jamie Gray
Date: March 27, 2008, 7:46 pm

Dear Terrance,

Sorry to hear about losing your keys. I lost mine about 10 years ago. Soon afterwards I bought a lanyard & clipped it to my keychain. I loop the lanyard through a belt loop & keep the keys in my pocket. So far, so good.

I wonder if you–or any of your listeners– might recognize the fabulous classical piece Jonathan Schwartz usually closes his weekend shows with? He’s never identified it, far as I know. Time permitting he plays it just before he signs off at 4pm, Sat. & Sun. If you’ve never heard it, try catch it soon.

Good luck in your new post, & all the best.

Comment from Barbara Lee
Date: March 27, 2008, 7:54 pm

Terrence,
Welcome to NYC! I am really enjoying your programs. Keep up the good work.
Barbara Lee

Comment from Tom C
Date: March 27, 2008, 8:19 pm

A lost key shivers and glows in mind.
It’s shimmer-river wanders, draining blind.

If memory’s weak the key works overtime;
Until your looking manys root in find.

Another hour the feather-dance
confounds.
It’s never lost. Only “around”.

Think… open… of an emergency.
The small lost thing —
Will pale and then absorb iced dream;
it’s always behind veil-frock;
constant, one, and free.

— By Yi Shan — March 25, 2008
Pinned down in the Nathu La pass, Tibet / Bhutan, north of
Taktsang Lhakhang (tr. fr. Tibetan by Sonam)

So good that you found your keys Ciao, T

Comment from Richard Mitnick
Date: March 27, 2008, 8:30 pm

O.K., someone tell me, what is Permalink? Could it be that we will get notification when someone responds to our post? LIke on real grown-up forums? That would be beyond cool.

Let me know, and thanks.

>>RSM

Comment from MCD
Date: March 27, 2008, 8:40 pm

#31–RSM

A permalink is a URL that points to a specific blog or forum entry after it has passed from the front page to the archives. In simple terms, you are able to read the blog entries at any time. I don’t think you’ll get notification if someone responds to your post; however I could be wrong.

MCD

Comment from Jeff Lederer
Date: March 27, 2008, 9:00 pm

Terrance; I takes a lot to provoke me to comment here rather than just grumble, but tonight u did it to me by playing just the last movement of Shaker Loops; how can u explain the first sound u hear in that movement without knowing where it comes from? above all, adams is a narrative composer and you can’t serialize ( as in a novel serialization, not serial music) the music and expect it to make sense! Welcome to new York; please do us a favor and don’t dumb down the music in the spirit of accessibility, diversity or flow; the ligeti u are playing now is wonderful; u are hitting a lot of the right areas and i am the poster boy for musical diversity having mixed adams and ayler, vivaldi and salsa in my own works-but never in easily digestible portions- we don’t need music 101 here; lets really treat it all with respect!

respectfully submitted from brooklyn, a shaker and baker.

Comment from Richard Mitnick
Date: March 27, 2008, 9:15 pm

MCD-

Thanks. One can always hope. Maybe we will get a proper forum at WNYC.

>>RSM

Comment from Richard Mitnick
Date: March 27, 2008, 9:19 pm

Jeff-

I heard the Adams, and I was delighted. It reminded me that I had not listened to the whole thing for some time. Of course, I have it on CD, on my computer, and on my iRiver H10 mp3 player (yes, there are good players that are not ipods). So, Terrance did a good thing for me. Maybe I will get away from this computer, take a walk and listen to Adams.

>>RSM

Comment from Rayna
Date: March 27, 2008, 9:34 pm

Sigh…bring back David Garland. First WNYC switches during the day from classical music to talking heads. Now, Evening Music has morphed into something that is too cute for me. Please, please, all I want is classical music so I can unwind, relax, and concentrate on my work -which requires me to think. I can’t think with some of the caterwauling that you play. I turned off Evening Music last night but tried again tonight.

If I wanted to hear jazz, I would listen to WBGO or WKCR. If I wanted to hear rap, which I don’t, I would go who knows where. If I wanted to hear pop, music, I’d listen to Jonathan Schwartz. Rock? been there/done that - who needs it on Evening Music?

Please, please, please, I BEG you:there is so much diversity in classical music - from previous centuries to the 20th and 21st century interesting work. Can we ditch the bits and pieces and the warhorses and hear pieces we haven’t heard a thousand times? But most of all - there is absolutely nowhere to go for classical music in the NY metro area - it is a wasteland and now that you are diluting it with jazz and pop and other stuff, NY radio is dead for classical music lovers.

I’ve been listening to WNYC all my life - and now I am reduced to listening to Colorado Public Radio or WKSU on my laptop if I want classical music. I am sad beyond belief.

Comment from Richard Mitnick
Date: March 27, 2008, 9:37 pm

Terrance,

I am an on-and-off listener to the FM side, being mostly glued to wnyc2. But, over the past two weeks or so, I would say, you have been, as they say, “kickin’ it”. It has been great, lots of mood changes in the music, lots of teaching by your words, just what I expect from the music side of WNYC-FM.

If you want something good in the morning, and it’s not wnyc2, check out WPRB, Princeton University Radio, Classical 6:00AM or there abouts (when someone wakes up) to 11:00AM. Then the best Jazz in the area until 1:00PM. Use the Windows Player or Real Player Multi-Bit streams, not the mp3 stream which is monaural. You will hear really good knowledgeable hosts and the kind of mix you are presenting, minus the non-classical stuff, but still, 500 years of music including up to the present. Lots of good stuff.

>>RSM

>>RSM

Comment from Richard Mitnick
Date: March 27, 2008, 9:45 pm

Rayna-

Colorado Public Radio is about as bad as it gets. It is C.P.R.N., owned by KUSC. The only thing worse is Classical 24. All of this stuff is packaged, rented out and running on lots of stations.

Two really good stations, where the hosts are live and the music will be to your taste are WCNY, Syracuse, and WCPE, Winston-Salem. I belonged to KUSC and these last two until WNYC2- hey, why not listen to WNYC2- I know people at all three. Lauren Rico, who was part time here, was from Classical 24, you could hear it in her intros, like reading from a playbook.

I am really stuck on WNYC2, but I love the diversity now on Evening Music. I go back to the days of Tim Page and Hearts of Space, and I hope you find what you want.

>>RSM

Comment from jfcantwell`
Date: March 27, 2008, 10:36 pm

I like the show. Why isn’t Gavin Bryars considered classical music? What is wrong with the jazz singers being included on classical music? They had a dedication to technique and lived as much on the edge as the 19th century composers.

I do have to admit to a weakness for Debussy and Tchaikovsky. I would love an evening of Tchaikovsky and another for Debussy. I heard a Soviet scientist describe walking through Chernobyle as being in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2. I want to hear Symphony No. 2.

Comment from Julia
Date: March 28, 2008, 10:08 pm

Hi Terrance,

I hardly tuned in to evening music before you became the host of the show. It was just so dull before. Since then, I really enjoyed listening to the variety you bring.

But can you please post a complete playlist for this past Wednesday, March 26th show. I loved Classic Guitar Pieces and have been trying to remember the name of the Italian guitarist. It was so good, I want to download it.

Thanks!

Comment from Ed Henig
Date: April 7, 2008, 7:19 pm

I was in Carnegie Hall on Sunday as well. I was blown away by the audience participation on the Ave Maria until I remembered that the Morgan State Choir was somewhere in the house. It was great fun though.

Comment from Christopher
Date: April 7, 2008, 8:20 pm

Hi TM,

Haven’t gotten a chance to check u out yet, but I’ve read the comments, nice work! Its not always easy to represent change so well, my eyes are off and my ears will be on!

Comment from ellen
Date: April 8, 2008, 9:44 pm

Terrence,
We love your show! My husband and I watch much less TV in the evenings now because the music on WNYC is so good. You are a breath of fresh air. I love the variety, the depth and the insight. I also think you have a great ear for beautiful music - I often find myself stopped in my tracks by the sheer beauty of something you play.
Thank you! And bravo!

Comment from William
Date: April 8, 2008, 11:13 pm

Tonight I discovered that the Evening Music program has changed, and it is a change for the better. The piano essays, or whatever it was, was really wonderful. Thanks very much for playing that. It was a real discovery for me, and I will begin listening to the radio in the evenings again, something I haven’t done for years.

Comment from Richard Williams
Date: April 22, 2008, 4:29 pm

Terrance,
I look forward to you including music by the following composers: Alfred Reed, Claude Smith, Marc Camphouse, Jerry Bilik, Frank Ticheli, Clifton Williams, Joseph Jenkins, and Morton Gould.

Comment from Bob from Brooklyn
Date: April 29, 2008, 8:09 pm

I have been a listener for 35 years and am very disappointed with what you, in particular, and WNYC in general has done.

There was nothing wrong with Marsha Young or Steve Sullivan as host or sub host.

I welcome the three nights of David Garland more than ever.

If I wanted to hear jazz, rap, or anything else, I can go elsewhere. I am sure that their announcers are not as open to Classical Music as you are to theirs.

There is no other place to listen to Classical such as this. WQXR, especially most of the day, is just snippets, often repeated every week.

I also dislike the accent on new-sounds type music on this program (including David Garland’s, which he did with a long piece on Friday.) If there is such a demand for it, then expand New Sounds from one hour to two.

Yes, Terrance, you have played some wonderful CLASSICAL pieces (last Thursday night was a great show after the concert which you warned me away from and didn’t listen to).

However, you have to let us know when a major work comes on. You often do not announce it prior to it being played. I missed the Ives Third Symphony because I didn’t hear you announce it.

Also please do not have the background music going when you announce. It takes away from what you have to say.

Thank you for listening.

Comment from brien
Date: April 29, 2008, 9:17 pm

TM: this music and this program is not about You! please, dont read people’s emails to you on the air, don’t talk about music on top of the music you’re talking about, don’t feel compelled to make sure everyone knows you’re a musician and you’re smart when you’re interviewing people. just play the freakin music! quit blathering! of course we don’t need you to be perfect (we don’t WANT you to be perfect), but you’ve a big long cushion before you worry about being perfect. you act like you care about music and music in people’s lives, and I believe that’s true, but I believe you care more about paying too much attention to yourself and making sure others are paying attention to you. the great music you sometimes play feels very much in the back seat of what your show is about. push that music up to the front seat, terrence. hop in the back. it’ll be a better ride for everyone.

Comment from Bob from Brooklyn
Date: April 29, 2008, 9:55 pm

Thank you, Terrance.

You are changing some of my opinions about you already.

I see that you are not playing background music behind you.

That’s a plus.

Please don’t mention me on the air.

I do have to agree with Brien who wrote a blog behind me. The music is more important than you and I.

David Garland often goes on too long with “nonsense.” In fact once he was supposed to play a rarely heard Hovhaness symphony and didn’t have time to play it.

Regarding your comments on Mozart and Beethoven… We do not have the same vantage point as they had. We are “standing on the shoulders of giants (like them!).” We are able to see the entire world which preceded us and usually have access (through recordings and radio) to all music and are able to discern what we like and don’t like.

Remember also, that in the mid 19th century, most people could only hear Beethoven’s symphonies through Liszt’s piano transcriptions, which they or someone in their household or neighborhood has to play.

Regarding folk music, it is great. Much Classical is based on folk tunes. Vaughan Williams, Bartok, Kodaly, etc.

Mary had a Little Lamb can be worked up into a serious tune (Dohnanyi).

Sorry for coming down hard on you before.

I didn’t like the Cage Festival which was on the Air before you came here and the American Music Festival (which in the past had Copland, Bernstein, Ives, Piston, etc.) and this year was “New Age-type Music and Ives”

Gee, this blogging is great.

I’ve said enough for one evening.

I will be speaking to you again and soon.

….And yes, you are doing much better than your first week. Please try to keep the worlds separate.

The Ibert Flute Concerto is a favorite of mine.

Maybe jazz and non-classical in the first hour.

Thanks for reading my blog. But please, keep the music listeners happy (and myself) and don’t read this on the air.

Comment from pl fye
Date: May 1, 2008, 2:46 am

terrance– i had the good fortune to tune in your program monday april 21 as i was driving home to dc on the nj turnpike. i think i must have driven under the speed limit so i could stay within range of the signal for as long as possible. what thrilling new sounds –new modern serious music– not music to please the king and his court, but music for the modern person with ears, a heart and a soul. i welcome you joyfully to my sphere of listening to excellent music.

Comment from JoElynn Welsh
Date: May 5, 2008, 7:38 pm

I don’t listen to Evening Music as much as I used to in the Winter, but not because of you, Terrance….I like your selections, it’s just that I’ve been watching basketball with my companion who is a fan; I’m not, but I’m almost interested…..In any case I’m writing because I know the commercial you mentioned tonight, “beer heaven” and I’d like to comment and correct. First is the correction: the wait-staff is female for the guys, but becomes male for the female patrons….but yr. right about the only black person being the bartender….what does that mean? You know what it means, but also, that the advertisers forgot that whole lot of black people watch basketball games…buit I don’t think white people ever worry about offending black viewers…and when accused of insensitivity, simply play it as if blacks are paranoid and always looking to bait whites….but don’t let me get started….
I like your show. Thanks for letting me vent….by the way, I am so-called “mixed-race” and therefore sensitive to racial issues…..

Comment from John
Date: May 5, 2008, 9:39 pm

Dear Terrance,
The show is called Evening Music.

Not Evening Talk About Music or Evening Talk About My Blog on the radio.

Please, more music less talk.

And please, please, please stop talking about your blog. Why would a radio listener want to log onto the WNYC while listening to the music you are playing?

Comment from Tom Savage
Date: May 7, 2008, 3:37 pm

Your program seems to be getting better. I really enjoyed several of the things I heard last night (5/6/08). When you first started, you made a lot of mistakes. I still don’t like the fact that you sometimes play excerpts from classical works rather than complete pieces. This used to be against the station’s policy and I believe a return to that policy would be a good thing. Some of your genre-mixing works, some of it doesn’t. Last night, it seemed to work better than on most occasions when I’ve heard it. Still, in spite of Evening Music’s current imperfections, I wish you well and hope you focus more on contemporary classical music than on other periods and on popular music. I realize you play quite a bit of contemporary classical already. But it is under-covered in the media generally and always a great inspiration to hear. Regards, Tom Savage

Comment from Cydya
Date: May 7, 2008, 7:52 pm

Hello Terrance,

I’ve just started listening to your show and find it eclectic and most interesting. So far it has been quite a pleasure for my heart and a treat to my ears.

I’m wondering if you have ever heard of a piece called “The Humming Aria”? I know that it was composed by a South-American composer but I can’t remember who. If you happen across it in your research, I would love to hear it - and if you haven’t heard it, I think perhaps you’d find it a delightful piece to mix in with your other treasures.

Best Regards,

~cydya