From the readers

We’re e-static
  Congratulations on the revamped website! It's fantastic and provides exactly the information I need. I used to have a radio on my desk at work, tuned of course to 2MBS-FM, but there would always be lots of static. Now I can not only tune in on line but I can also find out what I'm listening to – without static. It certainly makes the working day less stressful (particularly when I'm listening to Shamistha and Catriona!). And I promise to renew my subscription this month!
Alex Walter via email

Voice Your Passion
  What sad news the ABC gave us last week with the death of singing fanatic John Cargher and, presumably, the end of his programs. This news has stimulated my partner and I to email you to say how much we appreciate the amount of programming time 2MBS devotes to the singing voice, and to urge you to maintain this balance, or even to give us more! Our particular favourite programs are any opera you broadcast, both Saturday musicals programs (with presenters Keith Percival and Maureen Meers), the plentiful vocal content of Whirled Wide music, and Opera Highlights. We enjoy almost all music but the human voice, or voices, is our passion.
With good wishes to all at 2MBS.
Max Oliver via email

Cure for your Mondayitis
   Yesterday's all-day concert was a joy to hear. Congratulations on a fresh and clever way of presenting works that are linked to a theme. I found it interesting and involving, and look forward to next Monday.
Marion von Adlerstein via email

Eine kleine Nacht Musik … think not
   Thank you to all the wonderful programmers at 2MBS who give us so much variety and introduce us to music that we don’t hear in concerts and recitals. Like Gael Hammer (Letters, March) I too have discovered some favourites amongst lesser-known composers. I also fully agree with Kay Barlow (Letters, March) that the music is ‘99.9% wonderful’ but would like to mention my distaste for the so-called ‘music’ played between midnight and 3am from Tuesday to Friday mornings. For someone who works into the early hours of the morning, I would like to have ‘fine music’ not weird sounds, distorted or rambling speeches and excruciating ‘music’. I enjoy the film music that is played fortnightly but everything else gets turned off. How can 2MBS be called a fine music station when these noises are allowed to be broadcast!
William Johnson, Lidcombe

Seven year itch … no longer
   Seven years ago I moved from Sydney (to Melbourne) and have greatly missed 2MBS-FM ever since, keenly tuning in whenever I make a return visit. I had listened to the station regularly since I was a high school student in the 1980s and later became a subscriber. My wife, Danielle Perini, had made several recordings with 2MBS-FM when she was a music student at Sydney University. I was thrilled to discover, only tonight, that 2MBS-