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Mail forwarding is the heart of this petition. Please email other concerned Canadians to let them know that they too can have a voice against the decision to disband the CBC Radio Orchestra. The petition has been signed about 1000 times per day since the April 1st launch. Thanks for supporting Canada’s CBC Radio Orchestra!
Lets them play as long as they can!
Please continue funding the CBC orchestra.
Garry
This is great music and what tallent, we must keep it going.
The soul and culture of this marvellous country is at stake. Please save the ONLY station who plays classical music. Why mix in all this other stuff? You can’t please everybody. Focus!! Canada won’t be the same without CBC radion and orchestra!
I think the cbc orchestra is important to Canada.
Please continue funding the CBC orchestra, it is an important part of our culture.
Canadian culture is represented by this wonderful orchestra, as a signature of what is important to all, it would suggest a deterioration of our sense of that, music being the universal language.
Keep them going!
This is one tradition that is vital to maintain.
There is a already a gigantic disparity in nationally funded cultural resources between Western and Eastern Canada. Closing an orchestra based in Vancouver will only increase that disparity. One cannot help but feel that if this orchestra were based in Ontario or Quebec it would not have been touched.
Please reconsider your decision regarding OUR ORCHESTRA! Put your money where your mouth is this is Canadian Cullture at its best.
Please do not allow this traversty to occur. For oursakes and for our fchildrens sakes and for the children of our childrens sakes keep the CBC orchestra.
We are sad to see the demise of quality inCBC Radio 2(105.7 FM) It is becoming just like any other dumbed down commercial station. First we lose the news; then we lose one classical program after the next; and now losing the Radio Orchestra is the last straw.! Please reconsider! Comment to the orchestra members: Just don’t go. Refuse to be canned. Keep playing and justice will prevail and pay you. Let’s take the money from military spending!
I have listened to the CBC Radio 2 for years . It stays on in my house most days (and nights until I go to bed)I especially love the classical music,. I cannot have this kind of entertainment on ANY OTHER radio station. This is what makes CBC Radio 2 so special.The axing of the CBC Radio orchestra is outrageous!
Recently on Tom Allen’s morning program….April 1st. to be exact, he had John Cage’s “Silence” …… It would be nice to wake up tomorrow to discover that this axing of the CBC Radio Orchestra was just an April Fool’s Joke. Sadly, if indeed this is not an April Fool’s joke, my Radio will become a part of John Cage’s “Silence”. Actually all of the changes that the CBC has planned are making me quite nervous, and to be quite honest, angry might be a better word. The phrase “Where Music Takes you”…………….has annoyed me from the time it started…..I have sort of grown accustomed to it, and sort of accepted it….. but future expansion on this will destroy the CBC which is unique in the world. Why do we have to jump into the everyday “pot of stew” Why can we not keep some things which are special. I think you may find that there are a huge amount of people who love classical music………………
Don’t make us mad. Keep the CBC Radio Orchestra and keep the classical music flowing. Just like the green space …. we need it to survive!
The CBC radio Orchestra is unique and absolutely necessary and relevant to keepthe tradition and high standard of classical music in Canada alive and thriving. If CBC no longer wants to fund this orchestra, please do not disband this treasured group of Musicians before exploring other ways of funding it, please approach artsfunding agencies and corporations who might be able to sponsor this Orchestra.
I have found CBC Radio2 the only place to get classical music. I enjoy the programs and I have learned so much over the years. Don’t take away that Canadian source of entertainment and knowledge. And let the CBC Radio Orchestra continue to give pleasure to so many and to me on the re-broadcasts. The CBC keeps our wide-spread country in touch and caring for one another. Don’t change it!
Please, if this is the sign of future things our beloved government has for us , I do not want to be part of it. I can see they will keep only live funeral bands for our fallen soldiers!
I’ve been listening to the CBC orchestra all my life (now 75 years long) and want more of my tax dollars to go towards its maintenance to keep it performing both live and on air!
I think it’s so important that we keep this orchestra!
Music is important to us and to our children. I would like the Government to keep funding the CBC Orchestra so we can see them live or on air.
I grew up listening to the CBC and would dearly miss this orchestra as it gave me an appreciation for classical music. CBC is a public funded station, and has the obligation to conform to its listeners’ preferences.
I would like to post this writing on April 16th the birth date of the late Bob Kerr, host‘ Off The Record’ on CBC Radio Two, formerly called FM. Bob executed his programming with dignity and professionalism and delighted his listeners with an unfailing quality repertoire of classic music. Also in memory of the late John Avison who was born on the 26th of April, year ?,( if my memory serves me well) . John, Conductor of the CBC Radio Orchestra at one point of his life was known and admired by many people and I do remember him fondly as the greatest Radio Voice I have ever heard. My heartfelt ‘Thank you’ to both Gentlemen!
What an irony that now April 2008 both institutions are in the limelight with the CBC radio Orchestra in danger of being eliminated and the CBC Radio Two station going to be stripped of most of it’s classic music programming. Oh my!
Just like Alison Dunford I thought that this was an April prank but it is more like a nightmare. In
fear of losing the CBC Radio Orchestra and more of the classic music repertoire on CBC Radio Two I am truly glad that there are so many opinions expressed. I also thought that I was the only one to resent the phrase “Where ever music takes you” but unlike Alison , I did not get used to it and turned to the Seattle station instead. Sorry CBC, but one can endure just so much! Of course I did turn the dial to listen to ‘Rick Phillips Sound Advice’, he not only gave sound and intelligent advice about music but delivered it with a great radio voice. That man has a real good RADIO VOICE ! And why has that program been cancelled? I do not mind my tax money supporting programs where everyone can learn from, but wasting it on the production of inferior stuff which costs just us much I do mind very much indeed!
Are we going to lose ‘Choral Concert’ as well? I hope not, and pray that ‘ Music Hall with Catherine Duncan’ and her pleasing RADIO VOICE will be re-instated. For those two programs back to back and in perfect harmony gave listeners THREE hrs. of wonderful sounds. They were our family’s musical company during breakfast every Sunday for years and it would be so good to have them back together again, to be enjoyed by CBC Radio Two listeners.
Please reconsider your decision respecting the CBC orchestra. We need the orchestra to bring us the music that commercial channels miss and to provide an opportunity for the talented to make their contribution.