In Wednesday’s (4/3) Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), Sarah Bryan Miller writes, “I experienced something on Tuesday morning that I haven’t encountered in St. Louis in the last two-and-a-half years: Tuning in to great music on my car radio. Aside from KWMU-90.7/St. Louis Public Radio’s St. Louis Symphony Orchestra broadcasts on Saturday nights, there has been no classical music broadcast in St. Louis since the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod sold KFUO-FM’s frequency to a pop station in the summer of 2010. The Radio Arts Foundation is officially set to start its broadcasts on Monday, April 8; this week, they’re quietly working out the bugs and getting everything set for a smooth start. But you can listen in if you’re within the analog broadcast area. I visited the RAF’s Clayton studios on Tuesday morning for a story that’s set to run in Sunday’s A&E section. Host Kathy Lawton Brown, whose on-air shift covers the middle of the day, introduced a piece by Erik Satie with flawless French pronunciation. … People outside those 20 miles will need to listen on HD or online. The website, rafstl.org, isn’t carrying the broadcasts yet, but you can make a donation anytime.”
Posted April 4, 2013
