'David Starkey's Music and Monarchy'

[gamba]

Too awful to comment upon.

[Ferretfancy]

Too awful to comment upon.

Agreed. I doubt if there was more than ten bars of uninterrupted music at any point in the programme.

[gamba]

Thank you, ff. it appears to be the trend with almost all programmes. An ego trip for the presenter!

It hurts all the more with my memory of years with a documentary company run by Basil Wright & others steeped in a tradition where the presentation of the subject matter was of prime importance. It wasn't all like ' Nightmail !

This, followed by my experience of the BBC & ' Monitor ' makes today's offerings ' cheap & nasty.'

Alas! It need not be so !!!

[salymap]

There's now another thread on this floating around.

Shouldn't they be united. ??

[salymap]

There's now another thread on this floating around.

Shouldn't they be united. ??

[jean]

That thread was there first, and Caliban wanted to merge them - see #4 here - but doversoul and I said we'd like there to be something on the Early Music board rather than the more general General Arts one, and the two were left.

There have been more responses here, so if they're to be merged, can the other perhaps migrate and join this one?

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[jean]

That thread was there first, and Caliban wanted to merge them - see #4 here - but doversoul and I said we'd like there to be something on the Early Music board rather than the more general General Arts one, and the two were left.

There have been more responses here, so if they're to be merged, can the other perhaps migrate and join this one?

.

[salymap]

That thread was there first, and Caliban wanted to merge them - see #4 here - but doversoul and I said we'd like there to be something on the Early Music board rather than the more general General Arts one, and the two were left.

There have been more responses here, so if they're to be mered, can the other perhaps migrate and join this one?

Right, well we'll see what the Host says, jean. Probably better to leave them as they are.

[salymap]

That thread was there first, and Caliban wanted to merge them - see #4 here - but doversoul and I said we'd like there to be something on the Early Music board rather than the more general General Arts one, and the two were left.

There have been more responses here, so if they're to be mered, can the other perhaps migrate and join this one?

Right, well we'll see what the Host says, jean. Probably better to leave them as they are.

[jean]

I watched the second one too sporadically to comment. Any opinions?

[jean]

I watched the second one too sporadically to comment. Any opinions?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i was engrossed in Starkey's account of how the monarch's personal preferences enabled, or otherwise, the creation of such wonderful music .... it continues as an excellent hour of informed and informing insight into the great music ... perhaps three hours a programme so that full works might be incorporated ...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i was engrossed in Starkey's account of how the monarch's personal preferences enabled, or otherwise, the creation of such wonderful music .... it continues as an excellent hour of informed and informing insight into the great music ... perhaps three hours a programme so that full works might be incorporated ...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

i was engrossed in Starkey's account of how the monarch's personal preferences enabled, or otherwise, the creation of such wonderful music .... it continues as an excellent hour of informed and informing insight into the great music ... perhaps three hours a programme so that full works might be incorporated ...

It was very useful in juxtaposing the tastes of the two Charleses - the First loving order and restraint (and seeking to impose similar qualities on his subjects); the Second wanting a good time. I share the criticisms of the talkings-over the Music, but this is primarily a History programme that uses Music as a specific reference point and, because of the "Starkey Brand", it will be many viewers' first encounter with figures like Thomas Tomkins or the Lawes brothers. I hope many took the opportunity to access the website to hear the Music in full. But Calum's idea of a series of three-hour programmes (an "extended edition" on BBC4, perhaps) is inspired.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

i was engrossed in Starkey's account of how the monarch's personal preferences enabled, or otherwise, the creation of such wonderful music .... it continues as an excellent hour of informed and informing insight into the great music ... perhaps three hours a programme so that full works might be incorporated ...

It was very useful in juxtaposing the tastes of the two Charleses - the First loving order and restraint (and seeking to impose similar qualities on his subjects); the Second wanting a good time. I share the criticisms of the talkings-over the Music, but this is primarily a History programme that uses Music as a specific reference point and, because of the "Starkey Brand", it will be many viewers' first encounter with figures like Thomas Tomkins or the Lawes brothers. I hope many took the opportunity to access the website to hear the Music in full. But Calum's idea of a series of three-hour programmes (an "extended edition" on BBC4, perhaps) is inspired.