{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "one of the MANY things I appreciate about Los Angeles\u2019 classical radio station KUSC, is that they play good stuff outside of...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/164171628838/", "html": "<p>one of the MANY things I appreciate about Los Angeles\u2019 classical radio station KUSC, is that they play good stuff <em>outside</em> of ready narratives </p><p>\n\nfrom Mendelssohn and Hoffmeister to the non-austere non-modernist postwar composers</p><p>\nthey make me realize how the JRPG soundtracks I grew up with fit into the Western tradition (they very much do!) even\u2026 wait\n</p><p>\nit\u2019s possible this is just a Germano-Japanese styistic progression rather than the Anglo-American I\u2019m used to but</p><p>\nTHEY PLAY MUSIC SO WELL I WANT TO STUDY THE COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FORM, C'MON, WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT </p>"}