I support this petition.
I have been a dedicated listener to CBC Radio 2 for more years than I can remember, perhaps 30 plus years. For the past year I only listen to CBC Radio 2 between 6 AM & 6 PM on weekdays when classical music is aired. Come September I will only listen to it between 10 AM & 3 PM on those same days. Occasionally I will also tune in to a weekend program that will continue to air the music of my choice. Already I'm in mourning for all the pleasure that I will miss in the coming years unless CBC management reconsiders its upcoming changes. I simply am not interested in the "other" music that is crowding out Canada's classical culture on the CBC air waves. While I am in favour of the CBC playing more varied kinds of music, Canadian or otherwise, it should not push out classical music, but rather expand its mandate into a CBC 3 or 4 or whatever number can be made available.
Classical music is not elitist. It is intelligent.If the programmers are suggesting that only a particular demographic listens to classical music they and their surveys(questions asked can always be formulated to get the results you want)are wrong.where else can children who are learning musical instruments at school have easy access to the material they are hearing and learning about and someday learning to play. Very few programs in school can bring together children from diverse cultural, economic and social backgrounds to learn to a skill express a creative talent and respect each other, be individual and yet crucial to the whole. Music teachers, parents and school teachers have relied on CBC to expose students to classical music. We as adults need to expose ourselves to something the complexitities adn beauty of classical music. And we must support our up and coming and star performers to the public. How else do they get heard? Like pop music they need air time and promotion, interviews and media coverage. There are no music videos to accompany the classical music musician. The experience is in the performance, in the musicand in the distinguishing talents adn characteristic the individual musical voice that each musician heard from their instrument!DO not dumb down Canada! There is enough mediocre music background stuff give us food for our brains and nurture our creative and intellectual souls!
I LOVE Tom Allen\'s Music and Company. If his show is eliminated, I will not be listening to the replacement. I can\'t imagine my mornings without his wit, humour, and vast knowledge of classical music. I have been listening less and less as you have removed your excellent programs featuring classical music. Pay attention to your listeners or you will not have any left.
The CBC is my life. Most USA stations do not come close the well informed, wellchosen programs you have had.I am talking about 2 new hours,the 6-10am classics with Tom Allen, and the programs of Gothe, Phillips and Friesen. Refreshing, informative and fun. I hear the pop music moving in at the evening hour and I turn to another station. So . . . KEEP WHAT YOU HAVE AND WHAT WE LOVE. Please. Thanks
I am a dedicated listener to CBC Radio Two and I know that it has been a invalubale part of my family\'s life and as well as a shaping influence on my own musicianship.
Radio2 is the only station I can stand to listen to, and recently it has been losing its appeal and I\'m afraid soon there will be NO radio stations worth listening to.
I AM the target audience. I\'ve been listening to the CBC since invitro. I am intelligent enough to get my classical fix elsewhere. However, I\'d rather not.
The loss of Classical music and the replacement with what is available in this city on another station contrary to what the CBC claims is to deny a high art form to the dust heap. I came to Canada from a lower level of culture, the U.S.and was astounded as I drove into Edmonton and heard my favourite composer coming over the airwaves and though I had never been to Edmonton before, I felt. Here is a place that I can put down roots. The soil to which my roots attached was the cultural fabric of my city and my adopted country and for some inexplicable and likely political decision, CBC has decided without consultation from the likes of me, her listeners to CBC 2 to change from art music FINE ART to what? I have heard the last months of the evening show..I tried to see why they would be playing this CRAP..this lounge music. this trype and I shook my head and went out a bought an iPod to make up my own radio for that is what you have driven me to do. My daughter who is but 20 and who listened to pretty rough stuff in my estimation said that she is switching to classical music as she matures and re discovers that it ihas immense value and stimulation. Without CBC 2 classical, young people who did not as my daughter did have classical music training and some youthful knowledge of its beauties will remain unaware that music is not just a few untrained rockers yelling at the wind ad nauseum nor lounge lizards from Vegas crooning their pap and please do not tell me that there is all sorts of alternative music across Canada that is not being heard. There are hundreds of clubs where people who like that kind of music can go and dance and groove on it but radio is unique and by the way, it is NOT listened to by those folks.They already have their iPods and they can listen to whatever they want that way but this is not the case in small town Canada nor for that matter in Edmonton where classical music concerts are too pricey for many of us and it is the adult population that
Are you out of your mind? Getting rid of Disc Drive? Reducing the amount of Classical music?I guess you all have a paid subsciption to PBS cause after these changes the CBC will no longer have any base of listeners. You cannot compete with the private rock and stuff stations,do what you were good at.
Classical music programming please. CBC should be a leader in this not a diluted mix of what is readily available every where else! Why chase away the audience you have in search of one that will never listen to CBC whatever the programming. Shame on you Mark!
please keep CBC RADIO 2 the way it was. We don\'t want any less classical music. We want to keep our commentator, and their wit an humor,that we don\'t find on Radio CanadaThere are enough stations catering to other types of listeners, why deprive us of what we appreciate most.My husband and I, have been listening to radio 2 for the past 20 years and are very sad to see that we will be reduced to 5 hours of classical music a day. Please leave it as it is, in fact it is enough to have to endure the evening programs as they are now, don\'t make it worse.
As a young composer, the recent decisions of the cbc to cut programming (not to mention the orchestra) have left me feeling that I may soon have to leave the country I have grown to love, if I wish to continue pursuing a career as a composer. Aren\'t art and music parts of our culture we should want to promote?
CBC radio\'s classical music programming has brought me much peace of mind, comfort, and joy over the years. It is unique in what it offers. Do not make the mistake of axing it because you think it doesn\'t matter or is not important to the hearts and minds of Canadians... You would be gravely mistaken. It has become part of our cultural heritage.
I support the restoration of classical music programming, the Arts Report, and Two New Hours on CBC Radio 2. What new management at CBC has done to our national radio is a disgrace!
A major part of why I love classical music today is because of CBC radio - it\'s provided the soundtrack for my life these past 3 1/2 decades. So, I\'m saddened beyond words at these changes. CBC has consistently stimulated our ears and challenged our minds with its superior classical programming. The generic playlist you\'re proposing destroys CBC\'s unique voice and makes it nothing more than another cheap, disposable, plastic product. PLEASE reconsider!!
I have listened to the CBC all my life - 4o years. Please keep it going. This is a part of my cultural identity and to my Canadian heritage. Preserve the classics for our kids and our future! Thank you in advance ... The Ripley family, Salt Spring BC
I moved to Canada 15 years ago and have been listening to CBC2 ever since. I have loved listening to the majority of the programs, until the last round of changes. Many of the new shows that you\'ve come up with, especially \
Please restore classical music programming to CBC2. It is the only radio station I listen to, and I won\'t listen to it any more if the programming changes to lite, pop, international pop, and the like, or continues on its current practice of talk, talk, talk. Too much talk. Please give us back our classical music.Thank you.
This country is full of students studying classical music throughout their childhood. Many of them grow up to be professional and/or amateur musicians in the hundreds and hundreds of orchestras, ensembles, choruses and other music entities that thrive in Canada. Yes, they often expand their learning and enjoyment to other kinds of music but there are many sources of that music on the air. CBC Radio Two is unique in its support of classical musicians - performers and listeners. Why would you want to be a clone of the rest of the stations? How very short-sighted! You must reconsider. You are the leader in supplying Canadians with quality classical music and supporting the huge supply of Canadian musicians we will never hear anywhere else.
If the changes to CBC Radio 2 are intended to make the CBC “a more inclusive and representative Canadian cultural service†then surely the right approach is to offer a larger menu of the kind of programming that isn’t already available on American and Canadian commercial stations. Let’s hear more contemporary Canadian classical music, more classical Indian and Chinese music; more classical music representing the cultural diversity of Canadian society. More. Not less.
The current CBC administrators were apparently sent to Earth by Satan to lower the standards, and thereby facilitate our collective descent to an even lower circle of Hell. For Heaven\'s sake, ** STOP IT! **
Classical music belongs on Radio 2. If you wish to diversify, do what the BBC does and add another channel dedicated to different interests.There is nowhere for classical listeners to go except American Public radio - what an irony coming from our national broadcaster!
I feel that if you cancel music programs that are classical, you are taking away music in itself, because that was one of the original forms of music. These are words coming out from an 11-year-old.
I have been a CBC 2 listener since its inception and before that, CBC FM, for decades, all day, everyday. It is a sustaining part of my daily life. I do not appreciate the changes that have been made or are proposed that remove classical music programming (or the 3x/day in depth news) There is only one available station devoted to classical music; it is a necessary service to educate the public, inspire young musicians, develop and inform concert audiences and entertain Canadians with the country\'s cultural activities. I believe it to be a worthwhile beneficiary of tax dollars. I urge you to maintain CBC 2 classical music programming based on these principles.
the cultural life of present and future Canadians, will be seriously negatively impacted by the significant cuts in programming of Classical Music.WE MUST NOT LET THIS HAPPEN !!!
