"Latin"music

[jsburbidge]

 

Metro Morning was talking today, as they sometimes do, about "Latin" music.

Look, CBC, I like Latin music. I have a copy of the Graduale Romanum. I can sing along to the Lauda Sion. I even have some secular Goliardic music on disc.

But you never play any. You play only music in one language descended from one dialect of late vulgar Latin, with influences from Visigothic. Hell, you don't even play anything descended from other Latin dialects. And what you play is basically bouncy noise, to boot.

I grant that there's part of your audience that likes that sort of thing. But how about occasionally mentioning an upcoming concert by, say, the Toronto Consort and featuring something of theirs?

It's not as though Radio 2 was delivering this, either. You gutted it years ago and replaced the interesting music with pabulum. And now that you're removing Radio 2 from the airwaves, Radio 1 now has the burden of addressing all your audience (which is, by legislation, everyone in Canada).

So how about some Josquin or Isaac or Taverner the next time you use the word "Latin" in association with music?