National Public Radio – Allyn Gibson

Moonrise over Pennsylvania

A chilly early evening. I’m going to listen to WAMU’s Hot Jazz Saturday Night and call it a day.

Classical Music and the Personal Need for Culture

Sunday afternoon I listened to the Philadelphia Orchestra on Temple University’s WRTI. (They have a repeater here in York, and overnight it’s a jazz radio station instead of classical.) I sat in my living room, my Christmas tree plugged in, a cup of tea in hand, and listened to a number of Tchaikovsky pieces, concludingContinue reading “Classical Music and the Personal Need for Culture”