Suggestions for music to blow the top of your head off .........methinks this will be a winner hereabouts??
The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Happened to turn in briefly (and as it turned out, momentarily) ths morning, when the CD I was playing came to its end and the radio cut in to the strains of "Jupiter". Such originality. When are these guys going to realise that it is irrelevant to the Classic FM set what they play as whatever it is washes over their uncritical faculties as background music, while the discerning listener immediately switches for the off button.
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostHappened to turn in briefly (and as it turned out, momentarily) ths morning, when the CD I was playing came to its end and the radio cut in to the strains of "Jupiter". Such originality. When are these guys going to realise that it is irrelevant to the Classic FM set what they play as whatever it is washes over their uncritical faculties as background music, while the discerning listener immediately switches for the off button.
This is surely where the argument falls down that 'They may be familiar to YOU, but a lot of other people are hearing them for the first time' . Every morning there may be people who are hearing whatever they play 'for the first time' which would allow them to play, every day, a Johann Strauss II waltz (sorry - a polka this morning), the overture from Candide, an orchestral bit from a George Gershwin show... I see we had an Elgar Pomp & Circumstance March, a Kreisler piece, a Brahms Hungarian Dance, a song from The Mikado, Grieg's Morning and an Offenbach overture.
There is no defence in saying that there were other things in between. I love the piano transcription of Jesu bleibet meine Freude, but not wedged between Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity and a Saint-Saëns cello work.
One doesn't listen in order to complain, but to try to explain why a lot of people find the programme so awful. We KNOW that it 'isn't aimed at us' - but that, surely is at the root of the complaint?
(As for CFM listeners, many of them do recognise that they are getting the same pieces recycled over and over again. They may turn to Radio 3 and discover after a year or so that they're getting Radio 3's same pieces over and over again).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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Originally posted by french frank View PostThis is surely where the argument falls down that 'They may be familiar to YOU, but a lot of other people are hearing them for the first time' . (As for CFM listeners, many of them do recognise that they are getting the same pieces recycled over and over again. They may turn to Radio 3 and discover after a year or so that they're getting Radio 3's same pieces over and over again).
I agree that some of those drawn from CFM may well get cheesed off with hearing the same stuff all the time on R3 as well.
My point is really that, as much of what they really want (OK I am being presumptuous ) is just tuneful background listening, it really doesn't matter what is played provided it is: (a) (in the main) tonal; and (b) harmonically not too challenging (which I suspect is what most of us want first thing in the morning anyway).
As has been amply demonstrated on another thread there are literally thousands of pieces which fall into this category. Who knows, with a bit of imagination in the programming, disgruntled listeners (such as us) might even start listening again!
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostAs has been amply demonstrated on another thread there are literally thousands of pieces which fall into this category. Who knows, with a bit of imagination in the programming, disgruntled listeners (such as us) might even start listening again!
As far as 'education' goes, the method seems to be to give as little information as possible - but just keep playing the pieces so that they become familiar.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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I tell you what "blows my head off".
The juxtaposition of Walton's Crown Imperial played on the organ followed a nano-second later by Isabel Bigley bellowing out "If I had a Bell" from Guys and Dolls. And I see from the playlist - as I had turned off at this point - that was followed by the Agnus Dei from Faure's Requiem.
Crass.O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostThe juxtaposition of Walton's Crown Imperial played on the organ followed a nano-second later by Isabel Bigley bellowing out "If I had a Bell" from Guys and Dolls. And I see from the playlist - as I had turned off at this point - that was followed by the Agnus Dei from Faure's Requiem.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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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostYou were there, FF? At the BBC? Having a cup of tea with Clemmie?
I can understand people having very wide tastes in music (sort of). But I can't understand how they could hop about from one extreme to another every five minutes, including classical, other than just to have any old thing pumping into their brains.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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Originally posted by french frank View PostCertainly not! I was here, but on the leg extension machine
(Actually, who needs the Rack, the Iron Lady, Thumbscrews etc when there's unmutable Breakfast? I'd confess to anything!)[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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