Playlist has been a hopeless mess for almost too long to bother about but I have noticed that there is something else that is very odd about programme descriptions lately.
Not long ago, an adjective in the description of CPE Bach’s work was deleted later (someone protested on this forum). The Disc of the Week on this Saturday (just gone) had this, which I though very un-Radio3 like:
Handel at his darkest, and an indisputably great opera, in a thrilling performance from the kind of cast it needs but all too rarely gets.
This has now been deleted.
And now, there is this on Tuesday’s evening concert page:
…which Bach composed for performance in a Leipzig coffee houses, probably with one of his many sons as soloists. Never work with children or animals? Perhaps it's safe if you keep it in the family. Especially if your family is as large and as musical as the Bachs.
Bach’s sons have never been referred to as ‘many sons’; they are always ‘one of his sons’. I can’t say exactly what difference this makes but it does. But worse, what on earth has working with children and animals got to do with Bach’s music? And what’s all this about family size? And 'the Bachs'?
Who writes or organises these pages and how do they get to be published on Radio3 website? I bet this paragraph will be deleted soon.
I tend to scrutinise early music related programmes but is this (deleting later) happening on other programme pages, too?
Not long ago, an adjective in the description of CPE Bach’s work was deleted later (someone protested on this forum). The Disc of the Week on this Saturday (just gone) had this, which I though very un-Radio3 like:
Handel at his darkest, and an indisputably great opera, in a thrilling performance from the kind of cast it needs but all too rarely gets.
This has now been deleted.
And now, there is this on Tuesday’s evening concert page:
…which Bach composed for performance in a Leipzig coffee houses, probably with one of his many sons as soloists. Never work with children or animals? Perhaps it's safe if you keep it in the family. Especially if your family is as large and as musical as the Bachs.
Bach’s sons have never been referred to as ‘many sons’; they are always ‘one of his sons’. I can’t say exactly what difference this makes but it does. But worse, what on earth has working with children and animals got to do with Bach’s music? And what’s all this about family size? And 'the Bachs'?
Who writes or organises these pages and how do they get to be published on Radio3 website? I bet this paragraph will be deleted soon.
I tend to scrutinise early music related programmes but is this (deleting later) happening on other programme pages, too?
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