The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[french frank]

Poynton Cheshire was the home of my primary school teacher who had sung in the famous Manchester Children's Choir recording of Nymphs and Shepherds. I remember the day she played it to us, when I was 6 years old. Who needed Ten Pieces when we had a teacher who inspired us like that?

Did you try to get through to the programme to tell them, Alpers? (They could have missed out the comment about Ten Pieces)

[muzzer]

WTF is MH playing now? Is Songs of Praise on a day early?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Did you try to get through to the programme to tell them, Alpers? (They could have missed out the comment about Ten Pieces)

No - just a personal reflection re the effect the village of Poynton (and Higher Poynton) has on me.

[Edit] Did someone make a similar comment on air?

[french frank]

No - just a personal reflection re the effect the village of Poynton (and Higher Poynton) has on me.

[Edit] Did someone make a similar comment on air?

No, it just seemed like the kind of comment they piuck out specially to tell us :-)

PS Perhaps I should email in and ask the presenters to advertise the forum as an appropriate place ...

[antongould]

WTF is MH playing now? Is Songs of Praise on a day early?

Was that the Lord's Prayer set on a lake in Africa? - I was, as a true Breakfast listener, only allocating 33% of an ear

[LeMartinPecheur]

WTF is MH playing now? Is Songs of Praise on a day early?

I turned on in the middle and briefly contemplated sacking our cleaner for changing channels

It was a slice of Fanshawe's African Sanctus. Memo to self: DON'T EVER BUY IT! (Stay with his field recordings already on the shelf.)

[french frank]

It was a slice of Fanshawe's African Sanctus. Memo to self: DON'T EVER BUY IT! (Stay with his field recordings already on the shelf.)

Was it a listener suggestion for Best of British? I think it was quite fashionable some years ago, in a sort of Late Junction-ish way.

[underthecountertenor]

I turned on in the middle and briefly contemplated sacking our cleaner for changing channels

It was a slice of Fanshawe's African Sanctus. Memo to self: DON'T EVER BUY IT! (Stay with his field recordings already on the shelf.)

MH appeared to agree with the critics later when he said something to the effect that perhaps you had to be there (that is, to hear it live with Fanshawe himself present). Not sure why, of all things, Jeremy Backhouse chose this to inflict on us. Perhaps the Vasaris are planning a recording???

[french frank]

Not sure why, of all things, Jeremy Backhouse chose this to inflict on us.

Some pieces are great fun to sing?

[underthecountertenor]

Some pieces are great fun to sing?

Never sung it myself, but I've had mixed reactions from those who have. I did sit through it once, live. Never again.

[underthecountertenor]

(Next time I hope to be not live)

[french frank]

Never sung it myself, but I've had mixed reactions from those who have. I did sit through it once, live. Never again.

I wasn't speaking from personal experience, by the way - just offering a possible explanation for the suggestion. For me, Carmina burana comes under the category of 'works that (often amateur) choirs sing and which they enjoy'. But it's my own prejudice because I don't like it: it may well be a better work than the African Sanctus.

[mercia]

stupidly every time I see the words "African Sanctus" I think of the Sanctus from the Missa Luba, which I appreciate is something completely different

[clive heath]

....and given a lot of popularity by being used in the film "If". My LP has "Misa Criolla" on the other side which is pretty good too as you can hear here, sorry about the ad.

[HARRIET HAVARD]

Switched over to Radio3 this morning to get away from the banal Today prog on 4. Evidently 3 is currently broadcasting from the Radio2 studio........how appropriate!