Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Sleepy time composers

I guess I'm not surprised that when some stations broadcast symphonies by Mahler and Bruckner, they tend to broadcast in the late hours. The symphonies are long........, so I guess they can be used to put some people to sleep. Why enjoy music, after all, when you can sleep.

Here's a table of when symphonies were broadcast on Denver's All-Classical 24 Hour KVOD
station. Each number represents the number of symphonies broadcast from January 1, 2003
through the end of June, 2006.

TimeMahlerBruckner
12 AM 1
1 AM 15 9
2 AM 31 18
3 AM

4 AM 1
5 AM

6 AM

7 AM

8 AM

9 AM

10 AM

11 AM
1
12 PM 3 1
1 PM

2 PM 5 2
3 PM

4 PM

5 PM
1
6 PM

7 PM 18 1
8 PM 6 6
9 PM 32 21
10 PM
2
11 PM
2


This is pretty much what one would expect, I guess. Perhaps it's too bad I always
fall asleep before midnight.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Shorter music is better for our shorter atten...


gotta go!