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  • Bax-of-Delights
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 745

    Well, Sarah Walker has just read out about 20 names as correct answer to some infantile "quiz" about Andre Prevn ("oooh, so many of you go this right!") just after playing "America" from West Side Story and just before Schubert's Unfinished. Next up is Tim Vine, Sarah's "Special Guest".

    It just gets better and better...
    O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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    • alycidon
      Full Member
      • Feb 2013
      • 459

      Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
      "America" from West Side Story
      Oh! So that's what that din was! Thanks for telling me.
      Money can't buy you happiness............but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery - Spike Milligan

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      • pastoralguy
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 7737

        Tim Vine's contribution was "Which composer was it that started with Ta-Ta-Ta-Tum'. Real connoisseur stuff here.

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26523

          Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
          Tim Vine's contribution was "Which composer was it that started with Ta-Ta-Ta-Tum'. Real connoisseur stuff here.
          Mr Rock-bottom is referred to on the thread about the programme: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...216#post365216 et seq...
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • teamsaint
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 25193

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Mr Rock-bottom is referred to on the thread about the programme: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...216#post365216 et seq...
            They could use this old tune to liven things up .



            EDIT: if they need a "comprehensive" list of British music they could just borrow ER's spreadsheet.
            Or talk to SC, or....or..... just ******* look something up for themselves.
            Don't they have researchers?

            Rant over.
            I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

            I am not a number, I am a free man.

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            • doversoul1
              Ex Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 7132

              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
              Don't they have researchers?
              What are they?

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30235

                Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                Don't they have researchers?
                Of course they do - who do you think researches all the party games for the children to join in?
                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                • teamsaint
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 25193

                  Originally posted by french frank View Post
                  Of course they do - who do you think researches all the party games for the children to join in?


                  friends and family of Humphrey Burton?
                  I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                  I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                  • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                    Late member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 9173

                    why was it important that we were told that we had 8' of Bernstein; all of the intros had a personalised context, i was screaming and had to turn it off ... [8' is probably time enough for a pee]
                    According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                    • Black Swan

                      Do any Boarders know anything about Tom Redmond, this weekend's breakfast presenter? I believe he plays Horn with the Halle and has mad a sideline presenting Classical Music with a spin to children?

                      A quote from his website:

                      You might think classical music is boring, but not done this way, with extrovert Tom Redmond presenting the different pieces of music with wisecracks and actions for the audience to join in with.

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                      • french frank
                        Administrator/Moderator
                        • Feb 2007
                        • 30235

                        Originally posted by Black Swan View Post
                        with a spin to children?
                        Just right for the Breakfast audience.
                        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                        • Black Swan

                          FF,

                          I was thinking the same, obviously Chuckles the Clown wasn't available......

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                          • french frank
                            Administrator/Moderator
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 30235

                            Originally posted by Black Swan View Post
                            FF,

                            I was thinking the same, obviously Chuckles the Clown wasn't available......
                            And why the blithering blazes don't they put this kind of presentation on CBBC? Instead of putting CBBC presenters (who know nothing about classical music) on Radio 3 - as they did with Making Tracks, they put child entertainers who DO know about classical music on a grown-up station. Known as the Mix and Mis-Match strategy.
                            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              interesting pronunciation of Sakari Oramo this morning, for all I know the correct one ......... Sakari Oramo (perhaps related to Paddy O'Ramo)

                              not bad choice of music, except Schubert Impromptu and Shostakovich Festive Overture ...... at least it was a different bit of Pulcinella from the usual
                              Last edited by mercia; 04-01-14, 08:44.

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                              • antongould
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8778

                                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                                interesting pronunciation of Sakari Oramo this morning, for all I know the correct one ......... Sakari Oramo (probably related to Paddy O'Ramo)

                                not bad choice of music, except Schubert Impromptu and Shostakovich Festive Overture ...... at least it was a different bit of Pulcinella from the usual
                                Morning mercs I think it's actually ER with the recent plug for the Stockport Symphony and then Cabaret.........

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