RADIO 3 evening concert intervals - cut the music !

[french frank]

Sadly all I can remember abour Mr Norris is that he badly upset dear old smittims, who almost foamed at the mouth when Mr. N was mentioned.

I don't watch many TV progs but did take a look at HRH's Parry fillum. The sight of DON sitting at the piano demonstrating points about the chords in Jerusalem made me think - That's what I call 'enthusiasm' - not just gushing hyperbole about how wonderful something is/was/will be.

[Nick Armstrong]

I don't watch many TV progs but did take a look at HRH's Parry fillum. The sight of DON sitting at the piano demonstrating points about the chords in Jerusalem made me think - That's what I call 'enthusiasm' - not just gushing hyperbole about how wonderful something is/was/will be.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I don't watch many TV progs but did take a look at HRH's Parry fillum. The sight of DON sitting at the piano demonstrating points about the chords in Jerusalem made me think - That's what I call 'enthusiasm' - not just gushing hyperbole about how wonderful something is/was/will be.

[EdgeleyRob]

I don't watch many TV progs but did take a look at HRH's Parry fillum. The sight of DON sitting at the piano demonstrating points about the chords in Jerusalem made me think - That's what I call 'enthusiasm' - not just gushing hyperbole about how wonderful something is/was/will be.

Well, I don't understand how anyone can't be enthusiastic about Parry's music.

[marvin]

Music accompaniment has gone beyond the point of saturation now hasn't it? Can anyone name a TV programme, apart from shopping channels and the news on the main TV channels that doesn't assail one's ear with music, music and yet more music that is always in competition with any dialogue. What we need is silence.

[salymap]

Music accompaniment has gone beyond the point of saturation now hasn't it? Can anyone name a TV programme, apart from shopping channels and the news on the main TV channels that doesn't assail one's ear with music, music and yet more music that is always in competition with any dialogue. What we need is silence.

Switch off perhaps ?

[DublinJimbo]

Music accompaniment has gone beyond the point of saturation now hasn't it? Can anyone name a TV programme, apart from shopping channels and the news on the main TV channels that doesn't assail one's ear with music, music and yet more music that is always in competition with any dialogue. What we need is silence.

Yes indeed! Time after time what promised to be an interesting programme is spoiled by intrusive (and often inappropriate) music. Originally I thought the tendency was a result of out-sourcing, but now I fear that the BBC itself doesn't have access to sympathetic production teams.

[Barbirollians]

Off topic !

Reurning to the original point - one can of course turn off during the interval when your ears are being assailed with other music but there is then always the risk that one forgets to turn it back on or remembers halfway through the first movement .

[french frank]

there is then always the risk that one forgets to turn it back on or remembers halfway through the first movement .

Very annoying for people trained to manage a whole movement at a time ...

[Hornspieler]

Yes indeed! Time after time what promised to be an interesting programme is spoiled by intrusive (and often inappropriate) music. Originally I thought the tendency was a result of out-sourcing, but now I fear that the BBC itself doesn't have access to sympathetic production teams.

"It's the heat - and those damned drums!"

"Have another shot of quinine, old chap - steady your nerves."

.... those damned drums!

Not just in concert intervals, we even have to suffer them at the opening of every BBC TV News broadcast. It's a sign of the times, I'm afraid. The present generation cannot stand silence.

I watch the students walking past my house towards "Uni" Nine out of ten have mobile phones stuck to their ears - even when walking in company with their fellow classmates.

Off topic? No, it's all part of the same discussion.

"Speech is Silver. Silence is golden" That's what they used to say.

HS

[marvin]

Very annoying for people trained to manage a whole movement at a time ...

Hmmmm. If one has only ever listened to Classic FM then they probably don't know that most classical concerti and symphonies consist of more than one movement and couldn't stand the shock of having to listening to, say, the whole of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1 et. al.