Talk:Exploring Music

Funny outtakes
Click on Bill's nose here, and you'll get to a page of funny Exploring Music outtakes. Softlavender (talk) 10:37, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey, that's cool! Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 03:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Lead section
The show, which debuted in 2003, is an exploration of and commentary on classical music.
 * That's a bit clunky. Can it be rewritten?  Something like, "The show debuted in 2003, and explores classical music with commentary by  McGlaughlin."  I'm sure you can think of something better, but along those lines. Viriditas (talk) 10:50, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I hear you. It's all about that crazy word "exploring," and trying to avoid using it three times in three successive sentences. I took your cue, but had to remove the "explores" in sentence 3. Is there another word (besides the old-fashioned "delve") which means explore? Softlavender (talk) 11:54, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

As of 2008, Exploring Music airs on over 40 radio stations[3] and has well over 500,000 listeners,[4][5] and is also listenable worldwide day and night online.[6]
 * This could be broken up into two sentences, with the latter reading something like, "The program can also be heard on the Internet." The "worldwide day and night online" is a bit too wordy and overstates the obvious. Viriditas (talk) 10:54, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Inception and history
In 2002, WFMT Senior Vice President Steve Robinson asked Bill McGlaughlin, the Peabody Award-winning host of the weekly chamber music performance show Saint Paul Sunday since 1980, to host a new, daily national radio show, which would showcase and explicate great works of classical music.[10]
 * I would like to see this rewritten, perhaps split into two or more sentences, rather than trying to cram in so much detail. Viriditas (talk) 11:00, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * LOL I'm shocked. It makes perfect sense to me. LOL. I was even thinking about putting a few more salient facts into that sentence. Softlavender (talk) 11:54, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * What's even funnier, is that the exact opposite problem is occurring in the lead section. :) Viriditas (talk) 11:58, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That's weird. I edited the lead but it didn't take. Maybe I forgot to click Save. Fixed now. Softlavender (talk) 12:20, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

The show debuted nationally on October 6, 2003,[11] in essence replacing Karl Haas' long-running show, Adventures in Good Music,[1][2] since the aging and retired Haas had recorded no new episodes of his show after 2002.
 * Rewritten. Can't tell if it's now in optimal form; need to go to bed. But here's some info from the same interview w/Bill: "Steve Robinson of WFMT called me in 2002 and asked me to do Exploring Music. Garrison Keillor told me, 'Don’t do it. Not enough money.' I did it anyways!" . . . Should that Keillor stuff go in? Softlavender (talk) 12:40, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Same issue. Viriditas (talk) 11:02, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Split up. Softlavender (talk) 12:40, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Categories and references
Just noticed the category problem and format of the external link in the reference section. I suggest removing all of the categories except for American classical music radio programs, American public radio programs, Music education, Musicology, and Music journalism. It's possible that I've missed some or that others can be added, but many of the current categories unnecessarily duplicate subcategories that are already members of the parent category. As for the reference section, the external link could be formatted with the citation template. Viriditas (talk) 08:57, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

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