Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Symphonies being broadcast.

I was curious about the broadcast frequencies of symphonies by some of the greatest symphonists. Here's a small table of the broadcasts of symphonies over KVOD (Denver, CO) for the years 2005, 2006 and 2007 (through yesterday):

















ComposersSymphonies
Composed
KVOD
2005
KVOD
2006
KVOD
2007
Beethoven9159224243
Schubert9139195156
Schumann481114100
Mozart42384451401
Haydn104384525569
Saint-Saens3385240
Brahms4639680
Dvorak9489994
Sibelius7566066
Tchaikovsky6407478
Mahler1026127
Bruckner91493
Prokofiev7454442
Shostakovich15163522


Poor Mahler and Bruckner. Of course what this table doesn't show is the distribution of the broadcasts. For more details see
classicalfmradio.org and click on the button 'Show an interesting report on broadcast symphonies'.

PS: Working from a comcast connection can be a real pain. I've got a cron job which pings my comcast gateway regularly and I'm really getting a lot of dropped pings.
I sure wish there was some competition here -- and don't even mention qworst (qwest).

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