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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE CLOSURE: UPDATES, RESOURCES, AND CONTEXT

Friday Feedback for March 6, 2015

Tracy Kellogg-Brodeur wrote:

I am so so thankful for Coastline!!!! Love love love the local focus! It's always so well moderated. Thank you for all you do for our community!

Ronald Cohen wrote:

Your announcers trumpeting their "association" with classical music by referring to that specie of popular music that out-right stole classical melodies is a disservice to the listener, some of whom were spoiled in the egg by such awful "teaching aids" as (Ride of the Valkyries) "I'm sick on a seesaw/sick on a seesaw/sick on a train". Consider that going through one's head. Let's have the music plain.

Classical fans, I’m curious: If your early exposure to classical melodies through popular culture helped you with an appreciation of it, or if you agree with Mr. Cohen that this was a theft and a disservice. The musical team at Warner Brothers cartoons, for example – many of them classically trained émigrés from Hitler’s Germany – gave us this:

AUDIO CLIP: “Kill the Wabbit”

Let us know what you think at feedback@whqr.org.

And Mr. Cohen later added:

Unhappily, in today's listening I heard a comment about the early entry of the piano in the Schumann concerto as being a revolution[, a comment] which could only come from someone uninformed that the piano precedes the orchestra in the 25+-year-earlier (and better) piano concerto by Beethoven, No. 4 in G. Schumann (1810-56) hadn't been born in 1805 when Beethoven began work on his 4th concerto.

Listener Shalane wrote last week:

The guitar-laden music clip that you played at 0540 this morning was simply horrible. I think it was played over a Transplanted Garden support message. Listen, I am 28 and I LOVE rock music - but some things are just not pleasant to the ear and not civil before 6am. I had to turn my radio off! Please be more aware of the type of musical interludes that are broadcast in the early morning.

Shalane wasn’t the only one to complain about this cut of music. It was what’s known as a “music bed” that NPR airs at times during Morning Edition so that stations can make announcements over it. We agree that sometimes their choices leave something to be desired.

Listener Anne from Wilmington wrote:

[I] Love it that you now have talk radio during the day, George Scheibner and jazz in the evening!

Listener Stephen from Shallotte wrote:

I value WHQR as a local source for OBJECTIVE news. Thank you.

We’d love to hear from you on Friday Feedback. You can always leave a message via email to feedback@WHQR.org. Our Feedback Phone is 910-292-9477. And thanks for your feedback.