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Shirley Sykes	San Diego	Do I see a faint trace of hope? This morning I heard Mozart's Violin Concerto #1 - IN FULL!! It was magically beautiful!! And two mornings ago, although so early (6 am) I tuned in too late to hear it all, you had Hummel's marvelous Trumpet Concerto. Oh to have more such works throughout the day, and especially full symphonies. Please try to again become the XLNC station I have supported for these past years. Thank you!!
Verenice Vázquez	Tijuana	I really love it, thanks for playing what i like to hear.
Alan Epstein	La Jolla	rm hits it on the nose. You never did play whole pieces. You still don't identify many pieces (in English). You play the same pieces over and over again. You play too much movie music, pops, elevator music, jazz, etc --- everything but classics, during the day. Don't expect further renewals.
Joan Grine	Del Mar	rm used an expression "easy listening music". I am afraid this is what XLNC 1 is now, an easy listening station, no longer a classical music station. I agree with many of your writers, you are not playing the classics as the composers meant them to be heard. You recently played two small bits from the choral symphony, Beethoven's ninth. I am sure Beethoven would have been very sad. I was. And I agree that the young listeners you are trying to reach are not learning much about the classics when you are not playing pieces in their entirety.
fran selder	la mesa	I can't tell you how much I am enjoying your program. I notice that you are playing some light classical now. I would love to hear more of the light operas. Thanks very much Fran
Silvia Reynols	San Diego	Ohh come on! Non-profit organizations are in a very dangerous time. They need to get money from almost any kind of business. We should thank XLNC1 because XLNC1 just have a few sponsors and they are giving a great service.
Richard Kirby	San Diego	As a long time member, it is disappointing to hear XLNC1 broadcast commercials of "sponsors" and "partners" that are not from the Arts. The symphonies and theaters are understandable, but the others are not. If I hear one more commercial for the Balboa Park Inn I'll scream. The key reason for this complaint is calling XLNC1 "commercial free"! Give me a break!
Silvia Reynols	San Diego	XLNC1 is great! You have the BEST MUSIC OF THE WORLD. Not just classical. Thanks for this great gift.
Michael Brush	San Diego	I much prefer CLASSICAL music to your new addition of Show and Pop music. Let's keep this a CLASSICAL station. Also, would absolutely love to listen to an entire symphony, rather than a single movement. Had a composer chosen to write a single movement he would have done so.
Reba G	San Diego	I can see how the short snippets of songs might be used to attract the younger generation, but I am a part of this younger generation that you are trying to reach and they annoy me. Although I can listen to a song over and over it must be a song that I like. In my opinion too many of the songs you play, I would not consider classical. Movie music is fine as long as it is written in the classical style. Also although I am an American and do not mind hearing songs from American composers, they often tend to be more modern, (the same is true about the Latin American composers you also play). What happened to the long calmer complete selections of music that the older European composers wrote? More and more often I am finding that I must turn to my CD collection to hear some of the older composers complete compositions. And whatever happened to the Saturday morning operas? I enjoy listening to them and I miss them now that they are not being played. You claim to want to reach out to the younger generations but you do not seem to be doing a very good job of it.
Daniela Rava		All these tiny meaningless snippets are supposed to attract the younger generation. Well I am the younger generation and when I wrote about the removal of Musical Notes with Mr. McLaren, I got a response back Martha (The President) telling me how if my my age group they were reach out to. Having sugar puffs may be an attraction to those interested in only the superficial, but we all have to learn, so if Ms. Martha think she wants to serve the young, she will restore programs that lift and educate - like Musical Notes. Her heart may be in the right place, the the research being fed to her is very flawed.
Diana Hoffan	San Diego	Do not bother R M. XLNC1 is better than never! XLNC1 has the best music for young and traditional listeners. I have listened all the classics composers on air this week. Be more flexible and open mind! Changes are good! do not be square.
Dee Snyder	San Diego	Your wonderful station is the only one we have on in our home. We love it. I especially have enjoyed your recent additions of music from film scores and other more contemporary orchestral pieces. Please continue to "mix it up". I think it will widen your audience considerably. Thank you.
Shirley Sykes		Thanks, R M for saying again what XLNC1's programmers need to be hearing! I tried to respond to you earlier, but you had already been stricken from the list. So glad you were put back on. XLNC needs to hear from all sides!!
r m	san diego	READ BEFORE THEY DELETE IT. They did on July 13th two days after I first posted it. Guess I hit a raw nerve with my thoughtful analysis: Before you went to your new format there were two major knocks against you. 1. Playing the same pieces over and over. (Rossini, Verdi, von Suppé overtures, Carmen Suite, Invitation to the Dance, Dance of the Blessed Spirits, Entrance of the Queen of Sheba, Hummel trumpet concerto, Strauss waltzes, Vivaldi short works, etc. etc.). 2. Not identifying many, many selections. Now, after your move to the new format, those knocks remain. Sadly. Attempting to reach young viewers is a noble cause, but by playing short, light classical selections over and over is bound to fail. (How is playing Erich Kunzel conducting movie music getting young people to come to appreciate the accessible and glorious music of Mozart and Beethoven and Schubert and Wagner, et. al.? Works played in their entirety?) (That is not how the great Gustavo Dudamel so successfully introduced classical music to the youth of Venezuela.) Your move to playing light elevator music is turning off sophisticated listeners who might be more eager to contribute to your fund drives. They don’t need to listen to XLNC1 because of their classical CD collections, TV classical channels, Sirius, etc. And young people are busy with all their current music and texting and twittering and Facebook. (Indeed, previously you played light music from 7-9 am, which I thought odd as kids would be on their way to school or in school during those hours.) Now you seem to be playing short light pieces all day long. (Yes, sometimes in the wee hours you will play a longer piece---but often unidentified.) Even an uninitiated young person can listen to the Carmen Suite only so many times before being turned off from classical music. (What would be wrong with playing an entire Mozart piano concerto?) I can imagine a young person fed on your easy-listening classical music station attending his/her first live concert and hearing a complete symphony. “Hey, I never knew a work could be so long. Let me outta here!” Was there extensive deliberation before deciding on the new direction, or was the change effected by fiat? Hard for me to believe that Kingsley and David, serious music experts, would have supported it. Do reconsider what you are doing. For what you have in mind, introducing classical music to young people by underestimating their capacity to come to love it, the new format is bound to fail. You are selling young people short. They will never come to appreciate serious, great classical music unless they hear it. And you are simultaneously losing serious listeners by the boat load.

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