Posted by DanS on October 01, 2009 at 02:52:17:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Some WQXR Hosts Staying After Change, More Music Per Hour posted by Barry on September 30, 2009 at 20:05:33:
"The station will phase out the broadcast of religious services by the end of the year because National Public Radio, of which WNYC is a member, forbids such programming"...
"Vivaldi had sweeping approval. Except for 'shorter sacred works.'"
Does that mean no Christmas music either? No Handel Messiah? Some of classical music's greatest works are religious, consider the time period they came from. If they can't play them, that seems like quite the omission.