Klara

Belgium's Klara operates on the theory that classical and jazz listeners don't want segregation. The station programs Bach next to Thelonious Monk next to living composers - all as parts of one conversation about serious instrumental music. This approach sounds obvious until you notice how every other classical broadcaster keeps jazz in a separate ghetto. Klara refuses the division. The station's programming gets ambitious about contemporary classical work, bringing in minimalism, electroacoustic pieces, and the kind of experimental stuff that concert halls take seriously. Jazz blocks span pos…