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...just such an eclectic sampling. These stations air not only Keillor's whimsically witty Prairie Home Companion but a diverse medley of classical music programs including High Performance, a kind of Great Performances of jazz, classical and folk music, and highlights of music festivals from Bayreuth to Spoleto. APR takes its culture-vulturing seriously: with 70% of its programming consisting of classical music, it is the arty counterpart to its older and bigger Washington cousin, the public-affairs-oriented National Public Radio, APR'S bread-and-butter is broadcasting local cultural programming across the country via satellite. Indeed...
...moment, APR's main problem is that people confuse it with National Public Radio. As APR Manager Rhoda Marx notes, "NPR was the only game in town for so long that the press and the public are locked into thinking of it as a generic rather than a brand name." Created in January 1982 by five major public radio stations (WNYC of New York, WGUC of Cincinnati, KQED of San Francisco, KUSC of Los Angeles and Minnesota Public Radio), APR has never produced its own shows, like NPR, but has acquired, distributed and marketed cultural programming to public radio...
...true vocation, he says, is the one he has aspired to ever since adolescence, when he sat transfixed by a BBC radio broadcast of Debussy's L 'Après-Midi d'un Fanne: composing. With little outside encouragement, young Burgess taught himself music, beginning with the piano keyboard. "Find middle C," he maintains, "and you have found everything." At 20 he had written his first symphony. By the time of his erroneous death sentence he had, while supporting himself as a teacher, produced a catalogue of 65 mostly unplayed works...
...Duluth. The novel is a shotgun satire of, among other things, the modern literary racket, from assembly line romances to academic criticism. Take, for example, Vidal's mock theory of après poststructuralism: "Corollary to the relative fictive law of absolute uniqueness is the simultaneity effect, which is to fiction what Miriam Heisenberg's law is to physics. It means that any character can appear, simultaneously, in as many fictions as the random may require." This is meant to explain why characters who die in Duluth can reappear in a TV show of the same name...
...glistening in 2 ft. of new powder. Twenty guests-the inn's capacity-enjoy wine-and-cheese parties in the meadows, photograph elk, ermine and eagles, soak in private hot tubs and feed resident tame llamas. No sounds of sports cars, chain saws, chairlifts or rock music from après-ski lounges pollute the mountain air. At $75 a day, including instruction, equipment and dinners of prime rib and smoked turkey, the ranch is half the price of similar downhill digs. But half price is only half the reason for the appeal. Ranch Operator Ken Jones says: "Most...