Other music on telly

[Nick Armstrong]

Sheer poetries.

[Radio64]

I was going to write '...Musik..' as a homage to Kraftwerk, subject of the OP,.. good job I didn't innit!

[jean]

[Richard Tarleton]

Otter music on you tube

[gurnemanz]

How to translate the German plural "Musiken":

[gurnemanz]

The rather imprecisely defined category of music referred to in the amended thread title even has a specialist shop in New York.

[gurnemanz]

Otter music on you tube

Anne Sofie von Other?

[VodkaDilc]

The trouble is, on the BBC there rarely is any music coming up on the telly. And if I were to say that, recently, I've been enjoying complete Mahler symphonies with the Concertgebouw (various conductors), complete Shostakovich symphonies and concertos (Mariinsky/Gergiev/Salle Pleyel), lots of Beethoven string quartets by the Belcea from Vienna and lots more besides, it just results in a load of stuff about the evils of Sky. Just today, Sky Arts 1 offers Celtic Connections, programmes about Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Greenwich Village music....and on Sky Arts 2 there's Belcea/Beethoven (OK, again), a programme about Colin Davis, a Miriam Makeba concert, Lang Lang, etc. etc. Tomorrow - Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, David Bowie, Tchaikovsky Pique Dame......But nobody wants to know, or they already do because they look at Radio Times.

I agree about the wealth of music on Sky Arts. Can I add to your list The Queen of Spades tonight and Miller's La Boheme next week - and some fascinating updates on classic South Bank Show programmes. The BBC does not appear to be intererested in competing.

[jean]

These last are not of course examples of the other musics the original thread title wanted us to talk about.

[Radio64]

These last are not of course examples of the other musics the original thread title wanted us to talk about.

..and I only wanted an excuse to mention Kraftwerk !!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I agree about the wealth of music on Sky Arts. Can I add to your list The Queen of Spades tonight and Miller's La Boheme next week - and some fascinating updates on classic South Bank Show programmes. The BBC does not appear to be intererested in competing.

No - which is sad. But, by the same token, SKY does not appear to be interested in funding four Symphony Orchestras, the BBC Singers or the Proms, so I suppose it all comes down to budget restrictions and priorities.

[teamsaint]

No - which is sad. But, by the same token, SKY does not appear to be interested in funding four Symphony Orchestras, the BBC Singers or the Proms, so I suppose it all comes down to budget restrictions and priorities.

Interesting to compare the two though.

In general, there isn't much point in duplicating effort. If SKY needs Choral music, it can no doubt source it well enough without funding a group specially for the purpose.

I would suspect that, if the Proms became available for Sky to support, sponsor, or back in some other way, they would be very interested indeed. Imagine the material they could use for repeats on their 24 hour schedules.
The same might easily apply to a major orchestra.....

( none of which is to defend SKY, but it s interesting to look at how they operate, and where they spend their investment on content and artists).

[Richard Tarleton]

No - which is sad. But, by the same token, SKY does not appear to be interested in funding four Symphony Orchestras, the BBC Singers or the Proms, so I suppose it all comes down to budget restrictions and priorities.

...which sort of begs the question why we don't see more of them on the telly, as well as hear them on the radio. Much less than we used to. Even Proms coverage on the telly is pretty poor these days.

I was trying to point out that there were lots of "other musics", which I took to mean music of different genres, spread between Sky Arts 1 and 2, more classical on the latter and "other" on the former.

[Richard Tarleton]

A scathing piece in today's Times by Richard Morrison on this very subject, talking about Tony Hall's pledge "to give viewers a front-row seat at Britain's best arts and music events", which

implied to [Richard Morrison] that we would be getting transmissions of, say, the National Theatre or the Royal Ballet at least a few times each year

Instead of which, he says, this week on the BBC we've had just three hours of arts programming out of 400 hours of broadcast time. A (second) repeat of Simon Russell Beale on the symphony, a programme about early 20th century Vienna, and a documentary on Holbein (on the back of Wolf Hall, of course). Compared with six hours of cookery, and 16 hours of property programmes.

Yes, 16 hours of watching people buying houses

Compared to which,

...Sky Arts' two subscription channels delivered more than 100 hours of bona fide cultural programming this week - without any license fee subsidy

I rest my case.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

A scathing piece in today's Times by Richard Morrison on this very subject, talking about Tony Hall's pledge "to give viewers a front-row seat at Britain's best arts and music events", which
implied to [Richard Morrison] that we would be getting transmissions of, say, the National Theatre or the Royal Ballet at least a few times each year
Instead of which, he says, this week on the BBC we've had just three hours of arts programming out of 400 hours of broadcast time. A (second) repeat of Simon Russell Beale on the symphony, a programme about early 20th century Vienna, and a documentary on Holbein (on the back of Wolf Hall, of course). Compared with six hours of cookery, and 16 hours of property programmes.
Yes, 16 hours of watching people buying houses
Compared to which,
...Sky Arts' two subscription channels delivered more than 100 hours of bona fide cultural programming this week - without any license fee subsidy
I rest my case.