Heigh ho! I’m pleased to announce that “Picture Perfect” will return to WWFM The Classical Network with music from movies appropriate for the Labor Day weekend. We’ll hear hard-working selections from “The Molly Maguires” (by Henry Mancini), “Modern Times” (by Charlie Chaplin and David Raksin), “Metropolis” (by Gottfried Huppertz) and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (Frank Churchill and Larry Morey). Tune in, as home from work you go, this Friday evening at 6 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network or at wwfm.org.
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Picture Perfect Returns Labor Day Weekend
Only minutes left until the return of “Picture Perfect!”
I hope you’ll join me for music from movies appropriate for the Labor Day weekend, including “The Molly Maguires” (by Henry Mancini), “Modern Times” (by Charlie Chaplin and David Raksin), “Metropolis” (by Gottfried Huppertz) and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey).
The mediator between head and hands must be the heart! Join me at 6 p.m. EDT on WWFM – The Classical Network and on wwfm.org.
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Picture Perfect Hiatus Show Future Uncertain
“Picture Perfect” is going on hiatus. I know the show has generated a lot of enthusiasm, and I am grateful for all the wonderful feedback I have received here. Also, the show is just plain fun to put together, if usually a lot of work!
Recognizing its potential to draw in listeners from beyond the classical music fold (after all, film music is what introduced me to the glories of the orchestra), I am still looking for ways to keep it alive. As I posted here some time ago, if I am able to secure underwriting I will have more leverage.
In the meantime, I am continuing to submit shows for syndication. Unfortunately, I am noticing that some stations have had to suspend their internet streaming because of changes to copyright law. You can thank the Copyright Royalty Board and SoundExchange for that.
The only station I can find that is still streaming is Geneva Community Radio, which has posted on its home page that it will temporarily suspend its service on September 24, as they relocate their streaming set-up. At any rate, 1:00 p.m. EDT on a Tuesday afternoon is hardly an ideal time to listen to “Picture Perfect,” but if you just can’t live without the show, here’s a link:
http://genevaradio.blogspot.com/p/listen.html
Clearly, something needs to be done in order for the show to be heard in this area. I could always move my production of it to another station, but ideally I would like to be paid for it, and I would like it to be accessible via standard radio (as opposed to HD2, which would require listening on special equipment). I’ll get it straightened out eventually. In the meantime, you can always catch up on the WWFM webcasts here:
http://wwfm.org/webcasts_picture_perfect.shtml
I may be choking down shriveled carrots now, but I’m confident this is only intermission. Hope to see you on the other side.
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Entitled Birds Fly High with Classic Film Scores
This week on “Picture Perfect,” it’s an hour of entitled birds, with music from “The Maltese Falcon” (1941) by Adolph Deutsch, “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962) by Elmer Bernstein, “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” (1973) by Lee Holdridge, and “The Sea Hawk” (1940) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
With my computer gone fowl, it’s the flightiest show I could have hatched. Atticus Finch meets “The Albatross,” this Friday evening at 6 EDT, with a repeat Saturday morning at 6, on WWFM – The Classical Network; or listen to it later as a webcast at wwfm.org.
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Save Our Radio Shows Funding Ideas Needed
With the end of the fiscal year approaching, I thought I would reach out to you, my Facebook friends, for suggestions on how to solve a particular problem. You see, it’s all about raising dough. Isn’t it always?
As of July 1, WWFM will no longer be able to afford to pay for its specialty shows. That means unless hosts are able to find their own funding, they will either have to (a) do their shows live at whatever time they are assigned, probably somewhere in the middle of the afternoon, (b) produce them on a volunteer basis, or (c) stop doing them.
All three of these options are problematic. If a host were to do a show live, he or she would still have to record it and perform all sorts of touch up work on it, in order to get it in fighting trim for syndication. The host would not be compensated for that work, or for any script-writing. Essentially he or she would be paid for doing the equivalent of a one-hour live air shift. That’s unsustainable.
Obviously, doing it for free would be even more so.
“Picture Perfect” and “The Lost Chord” are on the line. In order to keep doing these shows, I would have to raise $5000 each for the coming year. I could do that through underwriting, or I could look into obtaining a grant. Either one would take time, but if it looked as if it were a realistic option, I would tough it out and do the shows for free until funding was secured.
Underwriting may be from a corporate source, it could be from a small business, or it could come from a particularly generous individual listener with a surplus of moola burning a hole in his or her pocket. I had even considered perhaps trying to pull together a consortium of individual donors, with everyone kicking in what they could – which brings me to crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter. I haven’t really looked into these, but I know they are out there.
It is not my aim to try to discourage anyone from supporting WWFM in general or to persuade listeners to shift their financial support from the station to one of my individual shows. This should not be an either/or proposition.
I don’t think anyone who follows this page is a Rich Uncle Pennybags, but I know there are a lot of clever people out there. If anyone can think of a creative solution to the problem of keeping “Picture Perfect” and “The Lost Chord” alive in such a way that they can still be heard by the general population, and in a way that I can actually pay my rent, please post your suggestions below or feel free to message me. I am all eyes and ears.
If only I could just have Moe inflate the budget using a makeshift hose to the gas pipe. Then again, we all know how well that worked out.
Thank you for reading, and thank you in advance for your suggestions!
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