Alec Baldwin strikes again. In the current New Yorker, the actor once again bemoans his career choices and glances longingly to classical music. The piece says Baldwin loves Mahler but "can't quite see the point of Mozart."
In one of his career fantasies, Baldwin is a radio announcer for a classical public radio show.
"To sit there in the studio and just say, 'And now Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, with Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.' Click. Hit a button, and then you sit back and listen, and they pay you for that. And I can't imagine they pay you as much as the movies, but to me it's getting to the point where there's just something else I want to do."
Any takers? WRTI - what are you waiting for? And who is going to break the news to him about public radio salaries?
Baldwin apparently has a thing for Dutoit. We can relate to that. And we can help. Come to Philadelphia this season, Alec; Dutoit is ours for the next few years. (No Mahler, though.)
And while Baldwin's got some issues to work out with Mozart, I've got to say that it feels pretty strange in a nice way having a pop culture figure looking at classical and wanting in. No?
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He can come out to Iowa where our public radio stations are flourishing and there is still a predominently classical FM station network from Iowa State.
Posted by A. T. Palestini | September 6, 2008 12:44 PM
Posted on September 6, 2008 12:44
Or there is always the BBC, should the political scene not fall his way in November.
Posted by Hal Sacks | September 10, 2008 3:19 PM
Posted on September 10, 2008 15:19