For about three years in the 90′s there was a rather good commercial classical radio station in Tulsa. It was one of the main things that helped me get into classical music – that is, really getting into it as opposed to liking it a lot but not knowing what to listen to beyond Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. They mostly played short works and single movements of longer works. One of the movements they played frequently (at least once a week) was the fun and exciting third movement of Dvorak’s Sixth Symphony.

February 26th, 2010 - 8:20 pm
Commercial classical broadcasters are becoming increasingly rare, and most of the ones that survive have had to make Faustian bargains, typically downgrading their signals. Tulsa has actually fared better than most markets. (Oklahoma City hasn’t had a commercial classical outlet for thirty-odd years, though UCO has run a noncommercial station for most of that time.)