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 ML> serious music is in danger of being quite simply crowded out.
 NB> Possibly... especially when station owners don't agree about the
 NB> quality and/or the necessity of keeping it around.  Even a lot of the
 NB> public stations don't see much of the value, although there is
 NB> sometimes some lipservice paid... 

I'm getting irritated. Both by the modern moderns, whose
main motivation seems to be to prove they're smarter than
everyone else, and by the audience whose ovine behavior
proves them right. Meanwhile, there's nobody standing up
for 500 years of civilized music.

And with the public stations held to a nonpublic financial
standard, there's not much to be done about that.

 NB> How nasty.  I've never been terribly impressed with the satellite
 NB> music channels

At least Sirius had several "sirius" music channels,
pretty middle-of-the-road as far as I could see,
nothing challenging.

 (or was this the airline channel?  where do they get
 NB> their feed?) anyway...

United has a multiplicity of aircraft, each type with
its own style and its own purveyor. The 753s and the
newer 319s and 320s tend to have nothing. The 737 series
that were inherited from Continental tend to have DirecTV,
but either I haven't flown on any of these lately or they
are taking out the entertainment altogether. The old
United fleet - 319s, 320s, 752s, and 744s - had a variety
of channels, including one classical and the famed Channel
9, which was air traffic control, my favorite. The content
was a dedicated mix of about an hour and half, maybe
longer for the transpacifics, chosen by an independent
company first and then I think by Sirius. It was one of
these that kept malfunctioning and giving me 2 to 2.5
selections, then going off for a while, then starting over.
The other widebodies - 763s and 764s (i.e. 767-300s and
767-400s) and 772s - have been refitted to offer movies,
features, and a wide variety of musics. Only the movies
work. We were told that the supplier got into copyright
trouble, and now there hundreds of empty albums covered
by a robot voice saying "this selection is not available."
The features are interesting - someone bought the budget
version, so you click on, say, Beat Bobby Flay or Hotel
Impossible or even Guy frickin' Fieri and try to scroll
down the episodes ... and you discover that only one
show of each title is available.

So I put on the map (used to be zoomable, now replaced
by a cheap version), stuff in earplugs, stretch out, and
attempt to sleep.

 Even at best, it's more elevator music style
 NB> than really music appreciation.

Exactly so. I am told that now there is some application
(not App) by which you can program your own virtual
radio station and broadcast it across the Internet,
including to yourself, so all these other systems are
outmoded and doomed to extinction anyhow.

 ML> As I've seen perfectly fine onions with more than seven layers,
 ML> I'd say that I was, but if you're talking about an agricultural
 ML> extension I figure they have better things to do than count
 ML> onion strata.
 NB> One wonders if the claim was being made more philosophically, as in
 NB> seven being the number of perfection...  (G)   We have a sophomoric

That would be sort of silly and arbitrary. Of course,
the claim altogether is silly and arbitrary.

 NB> would-be philospher at church than makes similar claims as to the
 NB> perfection of a particular pew...  ;)   I gave up taking him seriously
 NB> a long time ago... 

Theological or aesthetic perfection? I used to have
favorite seats at the concert halls (where I enjoyed
them as audience) - X22 and 23 at Symphony Hall and
N35 and 37, as I recall, at Jordan. I lost those seats
when one year I couldn't afford to pay subscriptions
any more.

Latkes for Hanukkah
cat: holiday, Jewish
servings: 2 to 4

4 potatoes (yukon gold preferred)
1 onion
1 egg
flour
1 ts baking powder
salt and pepper to taste

Simple old-fashioned recipe, multiply for larger
quantities.

Food processors are helpful.

Grate onions and potatoes; squeeze out excess water.

Mix together with egg, flour, baking powder, and
spices. Form into patties. Fry in hot oil.
Salt and pepper to taste.

Caren Price, Temple Emanu-El, Utica, NY

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