Cooper on KPFK

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 30 15:08:31 PST 2002


Todd Archer wrote:


>Doug said:
>
>>I started listening to WBAI in 1967 or 1968, as an alienated and
>>weird teenager in Joisey. In those days, you could hear Wagner's
>>Ring, broadcast complete every Washington's Birthday, as well as
>>drama and poetry. There's a schedule from the early 1960s up at the
>>station, and it was even more highbrow then.
>
>Not meaning to sound like a rabid nationalist but, MY GOD, DOUG,
>HAVE YOU EVER LISTENED TO CBC RADIO??!!
>
>You get opera on Saturdays . . . .

Oh yeah, we even have some stations that do that. But WBAI is now rabidly anti-highbrow. I could never imagine them running the complete Ring cycle these days.

Doug



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