Night Vision Classical To Shut Down in July 2011

Sad to report that Night Vision Classical Radio, a seemingly favorite among many world wide listeners will be going off the air next month (July) due to lack of support.

Although the average of two to four added presets a day, and listeners tuning in small numbers occasionally (which were actually higher numbers than some other stations at Live365 (after three years it is time to pull the plug. Lack of donations and subscribers make running the station an expensive undertaking without seeing any real return (unfortunately everything costs money).
 The cost of finding new music to broadcast (not every track is donated, and in fact there are only a few), keeping up the V.I.P. status to maintain the station. and paying broadcasting fees have run the course, and although the station was created to hopefully provide some measure of stress free and enjoyable atmosphere for the listeners we only received one single donation in our three year running time.

So Adios. We sincerely hope that our dedicated listeners will find if they so desire, a suitable successor to the unique mix of Night Vision Classical radio.


Ken Myers,
Program Director and Founder, Night Vision Classical Radio

The Exceptional Tracks on Night Vision Classical as of 6/5/2011

Getting that elusive five star rating at Night Vision Classical at Live365 (which essentially means that a certain music piece has resonated quite profoundly with our listeners), here are the stand out tracks as of 6/5/2011:


George Duning & The Muir Mathieson Orchestra
The World of Suzie Wong [Original Soundtrack]

Stuart Jones
Love's Many Emotions
Pure Love & Light


Boston Symphony Orchestra
Remembrances
Schindler's List: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Phoenix Arizona and  Houston Texas dominates our USA listening hours, while Canada, Italy, and Mexico head up our international listening audience hours. We average about five new listeners a day who add us as a preset channel to their respective listening devices, and our peak listening periods occur from Monday to Thursday mornings thru late afternoons.

We are still holding fast in the top 20 'soundtrack station genre here at Live365. Please keep listening, we enjoy presenting this truly wonderful music to our listeners. 

New Artists At Night Vision Classical

Hello folks. have been away for awhile but I wanted to post this in order to mention a few of the new artists we play at Night Vision Classical Radio.

Peter Pritchard, new age ambient artist out of New Zealand (Sacred Island album)
Catherine Marie Charleton, added new piano works "River Dawn" (great work!)
Added works by Samuel Coleridge Taylor, a Black composer (and disciple of Elgar)
Added works by Charlie Sneller from "Transcend' album.

Received a very generous donation from a grateful fan (Bless you and thank you for your support), and oh yes we do take donations, in case you listeners didn't know.

I'll try to write more often so I get try to get some followers here.

Been toying with the idea of starting a 'featured artist Friday' series at Night Vision Classical where we would schedule several cuts by one artist throughout the day (within the DMCA guidelines of course).

See you next month.

Night Vision Classical Radio's Future

Night vision Classical is now in it's third year with many new listeners from around the world. The platform at our radio host site has many soundtrack stations (the main genre that we are listed in), and we tend to share many of our dedicated listeners with some of the better stations.

Beginning in 2010 we began our donation drive, where listeners can use Paypal to send donations  for the purpose of helping to support us (we are an independent station, much like PBS or Public Radio) so that we may keep our playlists fresh with new content for our listeners pleasure. It is now the middle of the year, and we only received $5.00 for the year.

Bad economy? Perhaps. But We have seen people donate to less entertaining venues even in bad times. After all, our donations start at only a dollar.

Night Vision Classical is one station that provides music to help broaden the mind, and relax, and soothe the weary soul. The modern classical pieces have been carefully selected to help introduce listeners to classical music in general (many of whom never listened to classical before), and many have stated a new found appreciation for the music. The combining of these pieces with selected film score and ambient new age music creates a sort of mixed bag of highly enjoyable music. Each film score (no raucous, action driven epic music here)and new age (no transcendental meditation stuff, but carefully selected pieces from select artists) lends beauty to the whole broadcast.

Searching for music for the broadcast is the hardest part. If we can no longer afford to shop for music, then we fail. And while the broadcast is still going on, we have to add tracks (to make up the time slot) that we are not too pleased with. Our original mission falls apart, our ranking drops, and our listeners fade. Ultimately, no more Night vision Classical.

On occasion we do happen upon artists who are happy to send their latest works to us. Pianist Stéphane Horeczko's CD, G. 1888 is one our personal favorites. Listen for his pieces in the broadcast.

Standout Tracks For Week Ending 4/2/10

Here are the standout tracks (five stars out of five) broadcast at Night Vision Classical as rated by our listeners.

Opening Sky
Steve Roach
Dynamic Stillness

Romeo and Juliet (arr. M. Townsend): Romeo and Juliet: Main Theme
Carl Davis
GREAT MOVIE THEMES 2 (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Carl Davis

To the edge of the earth
Michael Nyman
The Piano

Autumn Music 2
Max Richter
Songs From Before

Wedding Jewels
Rachel Portman
Grey Gardens (Original Soundtrack

Darcy's Letter
Dario Marianelli
Pride & Prejudice

These tracks resonated with our listeners, and at the times presented compelled them to rate the tracks five stars (excellent), which is a rare rating.

The top tracks for the week ending March 27th 2010 (rated four out of five stars) title,
artist,
album
1. Concertino Pastorale: II. Threnody
George Hurst
Holst / Warlock / Elgar / Ireland: English Music For Strings

2. Symphony No. 1: Largo
Jose Serebrier
Rorem: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 3

3. Namouna - Suites From the Ballet - Suite 1, 3rd movement
Royal Philharmonic & Yondani Butt
Lalo: Namouna - Ballet Suite 1 & 2

4. Autumn Music 2
Max Richter
Songs From Before

5.Gerry and Christine
The Irish Film Orchestra
Dancing at Lughnasa - Music from the Motion Picture

6. Place Of Grace
Mark Rownd
Painting Twilight

7. Trivium (Excerpt)
Camerata Tallinn
Northern Lights: Music of Contemplation for a New Age

February Updates

Welcome to the Night Vision Classical Radio Blog.

New tracks added to the playlists for February includes Catya Mare's latest album, 'Destination Love', from which the track 'Sparkling Love' received an excellent (five stars out of five) rating. Congrats to Catya!

Been using the website Airplay Direct to find music for broadcast. One artist I downloaded a track by saved his music mp3 in a strange format. As a result, he did not get airplay. If any of the Airplay Direct users read this blog it is important that they ensure that their tracks are in the proper format, with the proper metadata (included in file). It makes my job so much easier, and I usually don't take time to fix these issues (in fact, I don't know of any broadcasters who do). Most of the artists we play have releases available at one of the major digital download sites (so I may supply the 'buy' option to our listeners), artist and album name, release year and label (so royalties can be paid to the artist's pro if applicable)

Andrew Pearce's 'Cinema Symphony' has made it's debut here at Night Vision Classical this month. I will stream a couple of selections from this wonderful piece of work from time to time.

The Ken Myers Project's new release 'Beyond' releases this month, and I will add a couple of tracks to the mix ahead of it's February 22nd release date.

Night Vision Classical is now ranked number 13 in the 'Soundtracks' genre, which is the highest it has ever been thus far in it's two year running. This is a good spot, as it is right up there with some of the best stations in this genre at Live365.

So long for now,

Ken