MY COMPLAINTS ABOUT "LIVE FROM VIENNA" AND TV BROADCAST OF NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC

I have several complaints about the production and programming of "Live from Vienna" on New Year's Day.

The broadcasters at WGBH - Boston seem to believe that the music alone will not draw and hold an audience.  Therefore they add all the extraneous fluff, like ballet dancing, images of Vienna, silly commentary on the part of some who probably have never attended a symphonic concert live before.

This is not a new problem.  It has been going on for years, for decades.  But I call for an end to such silliness.  It is a gross waste of time for viewers who just want the concert and not all the rest of the fluff.

I also want to take several pokes at the broadcasters/producers of the New York Philharmonic for their New Year's Eve program.  Why is it necessary to have the cameras focus now on the flutists, now on the violists, now on the horns, and so on?  This is most distracting.  Please stop this micro-televising.  Just pull all cameras back and let the viewer enjoy the concert much as he/she does in the live concert hall.

Lastly who in management at the New York Philharmonic thought it was a good idea to have Fred Child of Performance Today do the national announcing?    Has anyone at the NY Phil ever listened to Fred Child as he talks about "live from Lincoln Cen-ner?"  You can imagine what Fred Child does with "internet," "twenty," "international," et al.  And don't ask Fred Child to say "sonata," or else you get something like "seh-neh-teh."  So whoever thought Fred Child was a proper choice should be made to pronounce these words himself/herself before top brass, with proper articulation a condition of continued employment.  Given Fred Child's diction, I just cannot believe that sloppy and lazy pronunciation is now acceptable within the New York arts establishment.