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Ways to contact 88.7KXMS / Fine Arts Radio International:
E-MAIL:
SNAIL MAIL: KXMS Radio, 3950 E. Newman Road, Joplin, MO 64801-1595 USA
OFFICES: (417) 625-9356
LISTENER COMMENTS: (417) 625-9826
PUBLIC SERVICE INFORMATION: (417) 659-4434
For years we've listened to KXMS 24/7. From this February, we gave up on the New Year Marathon and listened to WQXR from NY. By chance we heard your broadcast today and found you had changed your programming. THANK YOU.
We do not listen to other area college stations. They have too much talking and jazz (a little is ok). So, we found WQXR to have less talking and more classical music. The exception is "From the Top," the program that highlights young performers, usually jr and sr high, and chats with them. It's amusing. We could probably tolerate an hour a day of programs like "Exploring Music" but much prefer hearing music to hearing about music.
Patti Peters
...thanks for the interview (President Speck on 5/2/08 edition of Missouri Southern Live!), most of which I heard when it aired. It offered an enlightening window into some of Dr. Speck's perspectives, which I generally find informed and judicious--and it doesn't hurt that he was an English major! Indeed, we were pleased to have him in attendance at our English honor society induction (Sigma Tau Delta) last Thursday, where he shared some of his favorite poems, including one of Donne's. Again, I thought the interview was very helpful, at a crucial time in MSSU's development.
Bill Kumbier
MSSU English Dept.
As a former DJ for KXMS, I still rely on your uncanny sense of matching music with the rhythm of the world, your detailed playlists, and more recently, a very nice website, podcasts, interviews, noted birthdays and all the rest. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday is a good example in which you play one of Dave Brubeck's compositions "The Gates of Justice". Maybe I can re-join the KXMS family when I retire, but in any case, you are a credit to Missouri Southern State University, to classical music, and above all to the community which you so richly serve with the greatest music ever written. Thanks for your unending work in keeping culture alive and well in southwest Missouri.
Mike Davis
Neosho
Forgot to mention yesterday, the educational value of the program (EXPLORING MUSIC). It reminds of the ones I used to enjoy as a kid - Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, Radio's The Standard Hour (15 Min. in school), Mr. Wizard, & Professor Julius Sumner Miller discussing physics (in CA). I'm remindered of terms I learned in school, I enjoy his technical discussions of the instruments & the various poeces of music. It's a true music appreciation class. Keep it up. I only wish I knew someone else who listens so I would have someone with whom to chat about it during or later.
Anne S. Dorriety
Neosho
We play kxms continually. We've been pleased with the summer schedule and had hoped, since it continued past Labor Day, that we would be spared the local programming.
The schedule on your website shows the same, pretty much, as the last few years, so we have a few suggestions for the Red Onion Hour. We would appreciate your not playing Dukas, John Williams (Star Wars),Gershwin, or Thus Spake Zara... by Strauss. They've all been overdone, and then done again. Julie Ensor is acceptable, but she often plays music that Peter van de Graaf played the night before. We enjoyed The Carnival of the Animals the first dozen times or so that we heard it. Peter and the Wolf has also been overdone. It's now enough.
We do like chamber music and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.
We realize you have your own agenda, but would appreciate your considering our tastes. In the past, we have turned the radio volume very low when ragtime was played, so while we are relieved to be spared the wordiness of Karl Haas, we worry about a whole hour of rag.
I wish I had more positive things to say, since we know KXMS is the best station in the area.
Sincerely,
Patti Peters
Dear Patti:
Thank you for your suggestions, we always enjoy hearing from our listeners. Our main agenda is to provide our listeners with a broadly appealing schedule of classical music/fine arts programming. Anticipating what everyone would like to hear (and when they would like to hear it) is always a programming challenge.
As a university station, a sub-agenda of 88.7KXMS is to educate our listeners and grow new audience by bringing them along with such shows as "Adventures in Good Music" and "Exploring Music." Not everyone wants to hear in-depth information, so those two shows have been scheduled in the evenings in more recent years. AIGM has concluded its run nationally and is gone, but "Exploring Music" will continue. Bill McGlaughlin is a bit more casual in his delivery style than was Karl.
In recent years "The Red Onion Hour" has become a place to highlight film and TV music, soundtracks and classical music heard in films (often times very familiar works). While our general programming is rotated with about 35,000 titles, "The Red Onion Hour" has had a shorter playlist rotated more frequently, as you observed. As that library grows, the rotation time will lengthen.
88.7KXMS plays the Beethoven symphonies and chamber music on a regular basis. Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony is played about four times throughout the year, and is one of the Top 300 ranked works. In the past couple of years we have made a point of playing as much of the Top 300 list throughout the week as possible to keep in touch with works that function as "comfort food" for the classical listener.
Our ability to serve our listeners is dependent on both feedback and financial support to grow our record library. Thank you again for expressing your interests.
I have my radio set on this station to ALWAYS listen while driving to and from work. I love it!
David Logan
Joplin
Dear KXMS Staff,
I was searching for mentions on the Internet of my dear friend William Diana, who passed away last December 2004. I found that your station played one of his solos from Berlioz's Lelio on December 9, 2004. He died on December 28, 2004. It would have warmed his heart to know that stations are still playing his music. He had been ill for about 8 years. He is featured on a couple of other CD's by Pro-Arte, 3461 and 3462, in the Mozart Requiem Mass 626 and Hadyn's Lord Nelson Mass with the Slovakia Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paul Freeman. He also sang on a CD put out by WFC Live #60289 in Hymn to the Earth by Edward Collins with the William Ferris Chorale. I actually think his voice is better represented for its beautiful mellow quality on these CD's I've mentioned than on the Lelio you played where he had to portray a harsh Brigands Captain.
Thank you so much for playing Bill's music! I've attached his obituary from the Chicago Tribune. God bless!
Eleanor Warrington, Administrative Support Specialist
Educational and Life Skills Program
Northern Suburban Special Education District
760 Red Oak Lane
Highland Park, IL 60035
Editor's Reply:
That "Lelio" performance gets played on 88.7KXMS at least once a year. We think KXMS is exceptional in that we schedule many extended vocal recordings, a vanishing practice at classical radio stations in general and virtually unheard of at mixed-format stations these days. Considering that the average record library is around 25% vocal/choral, our 10% vocal mix is not over-representative of that genre. Thanks for writing!
KXMS is my companion. I would find life difficult without you.
God Bless,
Grace M. Nolting
Joplin
We really appreciate your plugging the Aulos Ensemble, December 15. We also liked your broadcast of the Gould West Point Symphony.
Keep up the good work.
Cheers,
Ken and Elizabeth Meisinger
Pro Musica
The other day, perhaps over the weekend early morning, I heard a song on your station I've never heard before. I don't even know the name, but the chorus is something like a woman's name...maybe Sylvia? Could you assist?
Best regards,
Justin
Editor's Reply:
Hi Justin,
What you heard was from "Beethoven's Wig," a song entitled "Drip, Drip, Drip" based on a tune from the ballet "Sylvia" by Leo Delibes. There are now two volumes of "Beethoven's Wig" and KXMS plays them primarily during the 8 o'clock "Not Just For Kids Klassix" hour Saturday mornings. The album is available, and if you purchase the album through the KXMS Amazon.com portal on any of our monthly playlists, KXMS will get 5% at no extra cost to you.
Hello!
I have been a resident in the KXMS coverage area for about five years, and have greatly enjoyed listening to the programs available on the station throughout that time, and simply the classical music in particular. Never before have I lived in an area where so many choices for classical music listening were available -- from where I live I can pick up four, and sometimes five; yet KXMS continues to remain the "#1" preset button on my car stereo, and my first choice at nearly any time.
Best Regards,
Joshua Christensen
17054 Sweet Springs Circle
Stark City, MO 64866
Thank you kindly for returning my call for and the the helpfulness you so kindly were to me. My former student, Keith Lemmons, is professor of clarinet at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and an outstanding clarinest. This Strauss (Jr.) gem would make a wonderful number to include on one of his recitals--we'll track it down!
Again, thanks for your kindness. Please accept the enclosed to help continue your outstanding programming.
Warmest Regards,
Bob Stott
Pittsburg, KS
Editor's Reply:
We always encourage people to seek out recordings of classical music and KXMS assists locating classical recordings on all of its twelve monthly playlists with direct links to Amazon.com's classical pages. A majority of the links (through the shelf number) will take you to the exact album heard on 88.7FM. The search box under the calendar is also available for locating pop music, books and video.
88.7KXMS is a cultural resource of Missouri Southern State University/www.mssu.edu