Bravo, Music Choice!

Yesterday, with trepidation, I turned my TV to Music Choice’s channel 1942. What I feared was the same fucking Bruckner symphony I’d heard on the channel every day for the past week. What I got wasn’t Bruckner.

Music Choice, per its personal promise to me (yay!), worked out the glitch that was driving me away from the channel. And now I get the usual mix of known composers and unusual ones I never heard of before Music Choice played their music.

O joy! O rapture! Not exactly unforseen, but then Music Choice 1942 does not consider Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas to be “classical music.”

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Animal news, curiouser and curiouser

From Harper’s Weekly Review:

[I]n Wisconsin, the breeders of Erebus Anomaly, a 29-toed cat, decided to adopt him. “He’s a gorgeous boy,” one owner said.

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Oh, youse of little faith!

How many of you believed my complaint to Music Choice for their endlessly repeated and slashed repertory would get a response?

Well, it did:

Hi Naomi,

We apologize for the inconvenience. Our team is aware of the playback issue and is actively working on a fix.

We appreciate your patience while we work to resolve it, and we’ll follow up with you as soon as the fix is in place.

Thank you for being a Music Choice listener!

I’ll check back with 1942 tomorrow. Meanwhile, I’m listening to 1941 — which they call Light Classical but isn’t — and have been hearing some terrific music. And not over and over again. Not yet, anyway.

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