Howard Hanson And American Classical Music Broadcast On Public Radio In Hong Kong, China, But Not On Public Radio In U.S. Nation’s Capital

“Among the August [2006] highlights are three concerts by the Asian Youth Orchestra including the Hong Kong premiere of Howard Hanson's Symphony No 2, the Romantic, a performance of Samuel Barber's heavenly Violin Concerto with the 21 year old Stefan Jackiw as soloist, and a Mozart and Mahler programme conducted by Okko Kamu. All these concerts are broadcast on radio, TV and the internet.”

“Music Beyond Borders” On An Overgrown Path, August 24, 2006

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Radio 4, the Fine Arts and Music Channel of Radio Television Hong Kong

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Another day of absolutely no American classical music on Sharon Percy Rockefeller’s so-called “public radio” Classical WETA-FM, in the Nation’s Capital. Ms. Rockefeller refuses to allow Howard Hanson and most other American classical composers – excepting perhaps George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein – to be broadcast on her “public radio station”.

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Header credits: Howard Hanson; Samuel Barber from the American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964)Photography Collection of the Library of Congress; and violinist Stefan Jackiw. Copyright controlled. With thanks.

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American musician Ella Fitzgerald, by American photographer Carl Van Vechten, January 19, 1940. From the Library of Congress Carl Van Vechten Collection.