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...WCNY-FM, a public radio station in Syracuse, NY. I heard it on Austin's KMFA 89.5.

Although KMFA is largely listener supported, it does receive some funding from Corporation for Public Broadcasting grants. This financing will almost certainly end if the the current Republican attempt to defund public broadcasting is successful. I'm sure that WCNY-FM is under threat too.

""Feminine Fusion" would never be made or broadcast by a commercial station, and it is just one of a myriad of programs that inform, entertain, and educate all too likely to fall victim to the Republican war on public broadcasting

I was thinking of calling the GOP politicians responsible for this "philistines", but that is far too genteel and narrow a term. The war on public broadcasting is of a piece with the war on universities, on public libraries, on journalism, on science...I loathe these MAGA cap thugs (the Brownshirts of our time) so deeply!

In the meantime, support KMFA, one of the USA's best classical music resources, accessible both on the air and online, here:

https://kmfa.secureallegiance.com/kmfa/WebModule/Donate.aspx?P=WEBGENERAL&PAGETYPE=PLG&CHECK=4w3q6WZdX6Yfkez7%2fVhE971YhDw50SikSh2nq0qouhg%3d

#PublicBroadcasting #FeminineFusion #KMFA #WCNY #MAGA #USPolitics

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Before "La Princesa de la Luna", KMFA played Christian Sinding's Symphony No. 4, rhapsody for orchestra (‘Frost and Spring’), Op. 129 (1936).

I only knew the Norwegian Sinding (1856 - 1941) through his "Rustle of Spring" (Frühlingsrauschen), a short piece for piano that later became an emblem of middlebrow salon music.

Although Sinding was from Norway, he spent much of his career in Germany, so it is not surprising that the symphony I heard earlier sounded distinctly Wagnerian and Straussian at points.

It's the sort of late romantic music that twentieth century modernists deplored. Sinding's reputation was not helped by his enrollment in the Nasjonal Samling, the party of Vidkun Quisling, the Nazi collaborator who headed a puppet government during the German occupation of Norway. Recent research has brought forth evidence that this enrollment was made without the sick and aged composer's knowledge in the last weeks of his life, but this revelation came too late to save his work from effective banishment from the Norwegian airwaves in the postwar years.

Having a largely forgotten piece like this broadcast reflects well on KMFA. Although I doubt that I will be playing it again much, I was pleased to have heard it and to have been spurred to learn a smidgeon of Norwegian musical history.

https://youtu.be/V6GzHaOuVkc?si=Hy140WgavVcMMDFn

#ChristianSinding #SymphonyNo4 #NorwegianMusic #Norway #KMFA #ClassicalMusic #LateRomanticMusic

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Although Quinn Mason is not yet thirty, he has already established a reputation for himself as both composer and conductor.

Mason was the KMFA's first composer in residence, and his work shows how the station does not only broadcast music but also catalyzes its creation.

https://www.masonianmusic.com/about

#KMFA #QuinnMason