To the editors:
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I was shocked when Studs Terkel’s remarks about the “unctuous” tone of Mr. Andres appeared in the Tribune, and find your reporter’s niggling comments about Jay and WNIB in the same vein. “Unctuous,” using the Webster definition of “smug, ingratiating, or false earnestness,” fittingly describes much of what has accompanied the music from FMT for years.
And as far as automatically tuning in a Strauss waltz for those poor plebeians unfortunate enough to accidentally spin the dial to WNIB–outside of the sheer idiocy of that statement, I refer your reporter to the well known incident when the wife of Johann Strauss was approached by another composer at a concert who autographed her fan with the first few notes of the “Blue Danube” and the message “unfortunately not by yours truly, Johannes Brahms.”
Bryan Miller replies:
