A study said people could raise their IQs temporarily by listening to Mozart. A student tried this before an accounting test, turning on her NPR station. She got a C, because all she heard was "Car Talk".
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Why NPR stations should play mostly classical music
- Thread starter vchimpanzee
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Why did she continue listening when it was obvious she was not hearing Mozart? She was lucky she got a C.
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FredLeonard
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But classical music gets fewer listeners than news and information - and those listeners are far less likely to pledge.
Do Lumosity instead. For the record: The girl in the Lumosity commercial is Emily Greco. I think I'm in love.
Do Lumosity instead. For the record: The girl in the Lumosity commercial is Emily Greco. I think I'm in love.
People in Charlotte and Raleigh are lucky because they have full-time classical stations.
Around Winston-Salem NC, classical was dropped ruing the day on weekdays on WFDD, and although the above stations each reach part of the area, there are areas not convered. Roanoke has an NPR station with classical music, and WFDD did add an HD channel.
In Myrtle Beach, SC, the local NPR station changed to talk. The argument was that other NPR stations served the area, but they don't have good signals. I think they still have jazz in the evenings but the radio I take with me doesn't work below 93 and I've never found a satisfactory one to replace it. I could go out to the car but I just don't. Another area NPR station added a translator and it does play a lot of classical music.
Around Winston-Salem NC, classical was dropped ruing the day on weekdays on WFDD, and although the above stations each reach part of the area, there are areas not convered. Roanoke has an NPR station with classical music, and WFDD did add an HD channel.
In Myrtle Beach, SC, the local NPR station changed to talk. The argument was that other NPR stations served the area, but they don't have good signals. I think they still have jazz in the evenings but the radio I take with me doesn't work below 93 and I've never found a satisfactory one to replace it. I could go out to the car but I just don't. Another area NPR station added a translator and it does play a lot of classical music.
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FredLeonard
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> Why NPR stations should play mostly classical music
Sounds like, Vchimp, because that's what you want to hear. This is no different than all the other complaints, here and elsewhere, when Oldies stations flip, standards stations slip or any station flips. Classical stations would not flip if you classical music lovers came through at pledge time. News and information listeners do but you all don't. Classical makes sense on a sub-channel, or if the area has multiple public radio stations but otherwise any public radio station will do better with news and information. Actually, in some markets, the second public radio station has also found it does better with news and information, too, even if it stays a distant second.
Besides, I thought you preferred "Car Talk" anyway.
Sounds like, Vchimp, because that's what you want to hear. This is no different than all the other complaints, here and elsewhere, when Oldies stations flip, standards stations slip or any station flips. Classical stations would not flip if you classical music lovers came through at pledge time. News and information listeners do but you all don't. Classical makes sense on a sub-channel, or if the area has multiple public radio stations but otherwise any public radio station will do better with news and information. Actually, in some markets, the second public radio station has also found it does better with news and information, too, even if it stays a distant second.
Besides, I thought you preferred "Car Talk" anyway.
It's all about having options. If I want music, I want it to be soft. Or at least what classical music is. I was in the mountains and couldn't find anything else, so I set a button for station that was going to have "Car Talk", hoping for music in the car until the time came. I heard very little.> Why NPR stations should play mostly classical music
Sounds like, Vchimp, because that's what you want to hear. This is no different than all the other complaints, here and elsewhere, when Oldies stations flip, standards stations slip or any station flips. Classical stations would not flip if you classical music lovers came through at pledge time. News and information listeners do but you all don't. Classical makes sense on a sub-channel, or if the area has multiple public radio stations but otherwise any public radio station will do better with news and information. Actually, in some markets, the second public radio station has also found it does better with news and information, too, even if it stays a distant second.
Besides, I thought you preferred "Car Talk" anyway.
I'm lucky in that at home I don't have to depend on NPR for this music.
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FredLeonard
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For the record, you were "depending on" some local public radio station for classical music - not NPR.
Car Talk is more educational than classical music.
I said NPR stations, not NPR.For the record, you were "depending on" some local public radio station for classical music - not NPR.
It can be. These guys went to MIT. Most of what they say is over my head because I'd have to understand cars more than I do.Car Talk is more educational than classical music.
It can be. These guys went to MIT. Most of what they say is over my head because I'd have to understand cars more than I do.
It's great anyway. That's the appeal of that show. It could be about anything. The cars are secondary.
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Avid Listener
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There is a lot more to classical music than just Mozart. Some of the soporific chamber music that the public radio station in my old home town loved to play actually makes people less intelligent. Sleeping people aren't thinking of practical things.
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FredLeonard
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There is a lot more to classical music than just Mozart. Some of the soporific chamber music that the public radio station in my old home town loved to play actually makes people less intelligent. Sleeping people aren't thinking of practical things.
Where is your source that chamber music makes people less intelligence - not some opinion but actual research? Or is this just another lie?
There's a body of research showing sleep makes people more intelligent. And that people may have creative breakthroughs during sleep.
I suppose you are the judge of what's practical and what people should think about.
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classical mx
Classical music is music by dead people, for people nearly so.
Classical music is music by dead people, for people nearly so.
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