The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[pastoralguy]

Sounds like both her job and yours are related to BCs!

I know whose job I'd rather have...

[Black Swan]

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One of her guests apparently got into Sibelius through "prog rock" (is that a landscape in Finland I wonder?).

I actually thought she didn't do to badly until the Prog Rock. But on the whole not as bad as we are used to getting from Breakfast.

[cloughie]

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One of her guests apparently got into Sibelius through "prog rock" (is that a landscape in Finland I wonder?).

I actually thought she didn't do to badly until the Prog Rock. But on the whole not as bad as we are used to getting from Breakfast.

Nothing wrong with getting into Sibelius via Prog rock - maybe I got into Prog rock via Sibelius. Leminkainen's return really rocks, Pohjola's Daughter is not a million miles from psychedelia! Do I want it tweeted on Breakfast - probably not. I guess John Peel c1968 would have accommodated them well on his Wednesday Evening programme.

[french frank]

Hate to mention this when it was the first piece on the first day but ... Arthur Butterworth was killed on the Somme in 1916?

[antongould]

Hate to mention this when it was the first piece on the first day but ... Arthur Butterworth was killed on the Somme in 1916?

Scary I heard that and it never clicked......

[french frank]

Scary I heard that and it never clicked......

It did with me because I had an email from Arthur last year about the premiere of his 7th Symphony!!

[Suffolkcoastal]

He wasn't even born in 1916. (Arthur I mean of course). Worryingly the trouble is these gaffes are so regular now that we are starting to become oblivious to them. Perhaps that is what RW and his cronies intend.

[french frank]

He wasn't even born in 1916.

But George was (or was by then) and it was one of George's Idylls that was played. Clearly it's impossibly likely that there should be two Butterworths (unrelated?) composing 'classical' music. Heard one, heard them both. Or the other.

The major point is not whether a particular presenter happens to have a gap in his/her knoweledge: ça arrive, as they say. But either the producer didn't pick it up for a correction to be made in the back announcement; or the presenter was given a playing order with the wrong information. Either way, the problem goes beyond the hapless presenter.

[Suffolkcoastal]

There isn't a lot of Arthur B's music on R3 these days, his Horn piece (Romanza) gets churned out on TTN a few times a year but there isn't a lot else and George B's music is so well known on R3 and CFM I'm astonished that someone actually had come across Arthur in the musical knowledge wasteland that is Breakfast these days. Perhaps the person doing the notes went to the online Grove, looked alphabetically saw Arthur and that is about as far as they got.

It is strange how GBs music features regularly yet Cecil Coles, who also perished in WW1 features only rarely, and Coles seemed to me a far greater prospect as a composer of stature than Butterworth, though we of course can never know.

[french frank]

Perhaps the person doing the notes went to the online Grove, looked alphabetically saw Arthur and that is about as far as they got.

It did not escape my notice that 'A' precedes 'G'

[ardcarp]

Why does Orb and Sceptic always come (and come it surely does) just as I'm spooning in the cornflakes? Is it a Konspiracy with Kelloggs?

[Serial_Apologist]

Why does Orb and Sceptic always come (and come it surely does) just as I'm spooning in the cornflakes? Is it a Konspiracy with Kelloggs?

Do you feel that you have to stand while it's playing, then?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Do you feel that you have to stand while it's playing, then?

Cereal_Apologist?

[Nick Armstrong]

Cereal_Apologist?

Cue the inevitable Alpensinfonie gags...

Personally, regular Bach concertos see me right in the mornings. All Bran-denburgs are especially efficacious !

[Serial_Apologist]

They're lucky in Kent - having all those oats houses.