I'll try taking a stab first. I think one of the ongoing challenges for the community I'm involved with is that orchestras play all kinds of music. There's the classical era, which covers the work of Mozart and Haydn, moving on to the romantic era, moving on to 20th century music in all of its genre distinctions, as well as the newest Canadian creations.
I would actually be most comfortable speaking about good music that involves significant commitment by people who have made a lifelong commitment to developing the skills and the craft to be able to create and perform. That's actually the kind of music that I want to hear on CBC, which I believe Canadian orchestras and many other Canadian musicians in many other genres are involved in. It's the good music piece, and we can have a big fight about what constitutes good music, or maybe we'll just all agree that excellence is actually what we're hoping CBC will be aiming towards, while at the same time we understand there are wild variations in musical taste and audiences who must be dealt with appropriately.
Orchestras deal with audiences of varied musical tastes by running series in which specific music from specific musical eras is performed. CBC does it by packaging its programming.
Yes, I do have some beefs with the scheduling.
No, I don't have a solution to the fact that CBC probably needs six or seven genre-specific terrestrial radio streams. That's an enormous challenge. I also suspect that three to five years from now, technologically, Canada will be in a very different place. We will be able to take our computers with us in the car in order to be able to carry our good music with us.