Ravel Day

[Roehre]

I wonder if any prog rocker has ever thought of putting vocals to it?

Has been done at the end of the 1980s film Les Uns et les Autres (about French/Jewish [cabaret], German [classical], Russian [ballet] and American [Big Band] musicians from 1935 to 1975).

[teamsaint]

There is BTW a brilliant fusion of The Little Drummer Boy and Ravel's Bolero. I heard it done live abroad, but have unfortunately not found a CD. OK it's Christmassy froth...but ingenious.

like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYABZra1AE0

or available for £0.59 ?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Drummer-Bolero-after-Ravels/dp/B005ZNXUA4

[Nick Armstrong]

throw up

Talking of which, it's a pity that Tom Service is involved so heavily, co-presenting two of the special programmes - I find his intrusive burbling impossible to stomach now. Those explanations with which he breathily cuts across his interviewees drive me up the wall (waiting for his next audible footnote makes it difficult to focus on what the interviewee is saying - my problem, no doubt, but it's a turn-off)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I wonder if any prog rocker has ever thought of putting vocals to it?

Andrew Lloyd Webber did. He renamed it "Memory".

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

bless Ravel and all his works i shall have a really enjoyable day ....

[Nick Armstrong]

bless Ravel and all his works

Amen to that, brother

[Sir Velo]

Talking of which, it's a pity that Tom Service is involved so heavily, co-presenting two of the special programmes - I find his intrusive burbling impossible to stomach now. Those explanations with which he breathily cuts across his interviewees drive me up the wall (waiting for his next audible footnote makes it difficult to focus on what the interviewee is saying - my problem, no doubt, but it's a turn-off)

Quite, Cali. It's as if Service is saying: "you lot won't understand this technical stuff; or music biz jargon, so I'll gloss it for li'l housewifey at home who's getting lost - bless her".

[Don Petter]

Quite, Cali. It's as if Service is saying: "you lot won't understand this technical stuff; or music biz jargon, so I'll gloss it for li'l housewifey at home who's getting lost - bless her".

All part of the Service.

[Nick Armstrong]

All part of the Service.

That's the problem. I prefer self-service, thanks Tom

[Sir Velo]

Maybe it's time for an MoT with the service....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Quite, Cali. It's as if Service is saying: "you lot won't understand this technical stuff; or music biz jargon, so I'll gloss it for li'l housewifey at home who's getting lost - bless her".

But it wasn't always thus - listening to the early editions of Music Matters (when he took over from Ant & Dec) was such a breath of fresh air; his knowledge and enthusiasm suggested that he might turn into the rightful heir of Michael Oliver. His interviews posed interesting questions without the flamboyant parentheses and interruptions that splinter most of his current Radio work - and he never let anyone get away with a "pat"/prepared answer. Reading his newspaper work, too, reveals a significantly deeper Musical intellect than the one we're now given on R3 (and he was a bloody good "guest director" of the 2005 Huddersfield Festival).

It's as if (as you say, and as with SM-P and CB-H) the network has taken him to one side and said "Look here, Tommy milad; you and I know what a 'modulation' is, but we're the elite: it's our job to explain this to the unwashed masses." The fact that the "masses" are dwindling in their thousands by the day precisely because of this patronizing tone doesn't appear to have dawned on the Corporation.

[edashtav]

Your analysis of the Rise & Fall of TS in post#56 is most helpful, fhg.

[BBMmk2]

Again, for me it will have to wait for a time on iplayer. I must use that rather a lot!! :(

[Nick Armstrong]

But it wasn't always thus

Yes I completely agree, ferns. Time was, I relished his enthusiasm on Music Matters - well, you say it all. The last good thing I recall was his infectious interview with Tom Adès...

[mercia]

you'd think they would know how to spell Antony

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01td2jj