Classical music radio is just as it sounds — radio designed to appeal to the listener of classical music.

Most classical stations specialize primarily in instrumental classical music and chamber music, though there are more special interest classical stations ( often found through media such as satellite radio or internet radio ) that carry classical pop music or operatic music.

In the United States, public radio is typically confined to three formats: news / talk, classical music, or jazz, the last of which is declining rapidly as of the late 2000s.

As Rolf Wiggershaus recounts in The Frankfurt School, Its History, Theories and Political Significance ( MIT 1995 ), Lazarsfeld was the director of a project, funded and inspired by David Sarnoff ( the head of RCA ), to discover both the sort of music that listeners of radio liked and ways to improve their " taste ", so that RCA could profitably air more classical music.

As a musical educator he also hosted the classical music educational radio program Schickele Mix which was broadcast on many public radio stations in the United States.

In addition they communicate via a public classical channel, for example using broadcast radio or the internet.

During the Golden Age of Radio, radio featured genres and formats popular in other forms of American entertainment — adventure, comedy, drama, horror, mystery, musical variety, romance, thrillers — along with classical music concerts, big band remotes, farm reports, news and commentary, panel discussions, quiz shows ( beginning with Professor Quiz ), sidewalk interviews ( on Vox Pop ), broadcasts, talent shows and weather forecasts.

Texaco sponsored the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts ; the broadcasts, now sponsored by the Toll Brothers, continue to this day around the world, and are one of the few examples of live classical music still broadcast on radio.

One of the most notable of all classical music radio programs of the Golden Age of Radio featured the celebrated Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra, which had been created especially for him.

There was no dedicated classical music radio station like NPR at that time, so classical music programs had to share the network they were broadcast on with more popular ones, much as in the days of television before the creation of NET and PBS.

While hospitalized, he also developed a lifelong love and understanding of classical music through the gift of a radio, which he kept tuned to WQXR.

The city is also served by several radio stations ; formats include classical, Christian, rock, country, rap, urban contemporary, talk radio and sports.

There are eight radio stations in the city: WSMR ( 89. 1FM, classical music ), WSLR-LP ( 96. 5FM, variety-talk and community issues ), WKZM ( 104. 3FM, religious ; repeating WKES Lakeland ), WCTQ ( 106. 5FM, country music ), WSRZ ( 107. 9FM, oldies ), WLSS ( 930AM, talk ), WSRQ ( 1220AM, talk ), WTMY ( 1280AM, talk ), WTZB ( 105. 9FM, rock music ; commonly known as The Buzz ) and WSDV ( 1450AM, adult standards ).

Associate Members from the United States include ABC, CBS, NBC, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Time Warner, and the only individual station, Chicago-based classical music station WFMT.

A statue of George dressed in classical robes stands in Neville Street, Newcastle, facing the building that houses the Literary and Philosophical Society and the Mining Institute, and near to Newcastle railway station.

In addition, weekend evenings are particularly specialized ; a dance station might have a sponsored dance party at a local club, or a classical station may play an opera.

In 2004, MPR announced it would buy WCAL ( 89. 3 FM ), the classical music station operated by St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Beginning in 1991, MPR's programming split in two, forming separate news and classical music services ( although one station in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan still carries a combination of those two services ).

There are 36 transmitters broadcasting the classical music service, including one station in Sun Valley, Idaho.

89. 1 WUSO, has started simulcasting the Dayton classical station WDPR Monday through Friday mornings from 6 am until 10 am.

Among Marion's notable radio stations are WMRN ( 94. 3FM ) country music station, WMRN ( 1490AM ) news / talk ( clear channel ), WOSB ( 91. 1FM ) NPR News and classical music station, WYNT ( 95. 9FM ) adult contemporary station, and WDCM ( 97. 5FM ) community radio.

Other radio stations licensed to Bryan are WGBE 90. 9 FM, a simulcast of classical music / National Public Radio station WGTE-FM in Toledo, and WKJH-LP 103. 5 FM, a low-powered non-commercial station playing Southern Gospel music.

* KWRX 88. 5 FM-non-commercial classical music radio station broadcasting to the Bend, Oregon area.

* Organlive An online station of classical organ music.

* At the Organ An online station providing weekly programming about the classical organ.

In the early 1990s, he was one of the first executives hired by the start-up commercial classical music radio station, Classic FM, with which he remained associated from 1991 to 1997.

As a result of this partnership, concerts of more " popular and accessible " pieces from the classical repertoire are played, and the radio station broadcasts some of these concerts.

" KSMU " 91. 1 FM is the university's licensed public radio station, broadcasting National Public Radio content, local news and classical music.

Owned by not-for-profit broadcasting entity Window to the World Communications, Inc., WTTW is sister to classical music radio station WFMT ( 98. 7 FM ) and both stations share studios located on North Saint Louis Avenue in the city's North Park neighborhood.

A 24-hour station for classical music, Alltid Klassisk ( now called " NRK Klassisk "), introduced in 1995, was the first of its kind to be broadcast digitally using DAB.

In addition, San Francisco classical music station KKHI broadcast the San Francisco Opera in ' compatible ' ( that is, matrix encoded ) quadraphonic format during the 1970s as did Chicago station WFMT's live " Chicago Lyric Opera " broadcasts .. KRMH-FM (" Good Karma Radio ")( San Marcos / Austin, Texas ) broadcast in " Quad Stereo " in the early 1970s from its studios and transmitter near Buda, Texas.

The WNYC stations are co-owned with Newark, New Jersey-licensed classical music outlet WQXR-FM ( 105. 9 MHz.

On October 8, 2009 WNYC took control of classical music station WQXR-FM.

WQXR-FM ( 105. 9 MHz ) is an American classical radio station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, and serving the New York City metropolitan area.

WQXR-FM, New York City's only classical radio station, is now a public radio station as of November 1, 2009.

She had, of course, been exposed to and enjoyed a music appreciation course which had included the better known classical works such as `` Tristan und Isolde '', `` Candide '', `` Oklahoma '', `` Nozze de Figaro '', the atomic age singers, Eileen Farrell, Elvis Presley and Geraldine Todd, as well as the curious rhythmic progressions of the Venusians, Capellan visual chromatics and the sonic concerti of the Altairians.

There are five main categories in which potential sources and / or analogues are included: Scandinavian parallels, classical sources, Irish sources and analogues, ecclesiastical sources, and echoes in other Old English texts.

In classical times, they were included by Ptolemy within the constellation Ursa Major in his star catalogue.

Chet's recordings of " Malaguena " inspired a new generation of Flamenco guitarists ; the classical guitar selections included on almost all his albums were, for many American artists working in the field today, the first classical guitar they ever heard.

The humanist tradition of the Renaissance included a revival of interest in Europe's classical past in ancient Greece and Rome.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

Although not mentioned in the Qur ' an by the name, all Muslim scholars, both classical and modern have included Ezekiel in the prophetic pantheon.

Under other classical authors this sometimes included regions of Sarmatia as well as an area under Roman control on the west bank of the Rhine.

The dissenters, who included Rabbi Joel Roth as well as a partial concurrence by Rabbi Daniel Nevins, argued for reaffirming the classical halakhic framework in which human decrees inform and often limit but never wholly abrogate law believed to be of Divine origin, stating that " we should acknowledge that God's law is beyond our authority to eliminate ", but should continue the traditional approach of applying strict evidentiary rules and presumptions that tend to render enforcement unlikely.

He published lectures on the history of ancient sculpture in 1806, and painting in 1811, and edited the three volumes of an archaeological periodical called Amalthea from 1820 to 1825, which included contributions from the most eminent classical archaeologists of the day.

Greek music theory included the Greek musical modes, that eventually became the basis for Western religious and classical music.

Songs included Dave Brubeck's " The Duke ," as well as Léo Delibes's " The Maids of Cadiz ," the first piece of European classical music Davis had recorded.

In the codex's description of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortés, the Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorial Nahuatl, a speech which as described verbatim in the codex ( written by Sahagún's Tlatelolcan informants who were probably not eyewitnesses of the meeting ) included such prostrate declarations of divine or near-divine admiration as, " You have graciously come on earth, you have graciously approached your water, your high place of Mexico, you have come down to your mat, your throne, which I have briefly kept for you, I who used to keep it for you ," and, " You have graciously arrived, you have known pain, you have known weariness, now come on earth, take your rest, enter into your palace, rest your limbs ; may our lords come on earth.

The classical Greek culture began to emerge around 1000 BCE featuring a variety of well crafted pottery which now included the human form as a decorating motif.

Of the fifty-seven stars included in the new almanac, these two had no classical names.

Types of acts included popular and classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies.

The virial theorem can be obtained directly from Lagrange's Identity as applied in classical gravitational dynamics, the original form of which was included in Lagrange's " Essay on the Problem of Three Bodies " published in 1772.

This team also included Wolfsbane ( a devout Scots Presbyterian ), Danielle Moonstar ( a Cheyenne Native American ) and Cannonball, and was later joined by Magma ( a devout Greco-Roman classical religionist ).

His classical influences included Raphael, Bronzino, Francisco de Zurbarán, Vermeer, and Velázquez.

In the Homeric epics, the Greeks of prehistory are viewed as the ancestors of the early classical civilization of Homer's own time, while the Mycenaean pantheon included many of the divinities ( e. g. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades ) attested in later Greek religion.

During the 90s, many releases included recordings of classical compositions: Pictures at an Exhibition ( on Turn of the Tides ), Largo ( from Xerxes ) ( on Tyranny of Beauty ), Symphony in A Minor ( by J. S. Bach ), and Concerto in A Major / Adagio ( by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) ( both on Ambient Monkeys ).

Types of acts included popular and classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies.

During the new moon and solar eclipse of February 4 — 5, 1962, an extremely rare great conjunction of the classical planets occurred ( it included all five of the naked-eye planets plus the Sun and the Moon ), all of them within 16 degrees of one another on the ecliptic.

However, Newton's laws ( combined with universal gravitation and classical electrodynamics ) are inappropriate for use in certain circumstances, most notably at very small scales, very high speeds ( in special relativity, the Lorentz factor must be included in the expression for momentum along with rest mass and velocity ) or very strong gravitational fields.