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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30205

    Originally posted by muzzer View Post
    Skellers is on fire this morning - he won't progress if he keeps quietly mocking the format, but he's all the more fun to listen to than certain others.
    Who knows? Radio 3 has always liked the quirky. 'Cool' was the ex-management: it doesn't have a sense of humour ...
    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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    • cloughie
      Full Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 22110

      Originally posted by french frank View Post
      Who knows? Radio 3 has always liked the quirky. 'Cool' was the ex-management: it doesn't have a sense of humour ...
      ...then again there was Tom Crowe!

      Tom Crowe, who died on December 6 aged 88, was in his day one of the most distinctive and best-loved voices on Radio 3; he made his mark in the 1970s, in particular as the announcer, three times a month, on the early Monday morning slot, where his air of carefully controlled muddle and civilised puzzlement endeared him to listeners.

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30205

        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
        I think: "While never openly rebellious, he managed to suggest a quiet, disingenuous dissidence, mildly sending up the Radio 3 “grand manner” and himself with it." -

        Disclaimer: I wasn't listening at the time of Tom Crowe, so have no personal affection/nostalgia to cloud judgement ...
        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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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8774

          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          I think: "While never openly rebellious, he managed to suggest a quiet, disingenuous dissidence, mildly sending up the Radio 3 “grand manner” and himself with it." -

          Disclaimer: I wasn't listening at the time of Tom Crowe, so have no personal affection/nostalgia to cloud judgement ...
          He does seem to have have had shades of Skellers who has on form again his morning. He mused that he seemed to remember Sibelius had conducted the Bournemouth SO and asked if anyone could confirm this. In short time full details of the event had arrived, but obviously not enough for IS who wanted to know what colour tie Jean was wearing

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30205

            Originally posted by antongould View Post
            what colour tie Jean was wearing
            Tie? Surprised he didn't ask the colour of her frock!
            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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            • antongould
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8774

              Originally posted by french frank View Post
              Tie? Surprised he didn't ask the colour of her frock!
              Come, come ff we are not talking Rob Cowan here, but a man who really knows his stuff........

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26514

                Originally posted by muzzer View Post
                Skellers is on fire this morning - he won't progress if he keeps quietly mocking the format, but he's all the more fun to listen to than certain others.
                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                Sadly probably true muzzer but he is a treasure " ......you can tweet on Twitter to your heart's content...."
                Oh... I need to cop a load of that!

                'Twas past my bedtime...
                "...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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                • french frank
                  Administrator/Moderator
                  • Feb 2007
                  • 30205

                  Originally posted by antongould View Post
                  Come, come ff we are not talking Rob Cowan here, but a man who really knows his stuff........
                  Just joshin' Only works when you read it (if at all ).
                  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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                  • cloughie
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 22110

                    Originally posted by french frank View Post
                    Tie? Surprised he didn't ask the colour of her frock!
                    What frock jeans surely!
                    Last edited by cloughie; 09-11-14, 15:52.

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                    • Radio64
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2014
                      • 962

                      Acker Bilk!

                      RIP...
                      Last edited by Radio64; 03-11-14, 08:38. Reason: Just found out reason for Acker Bilk - read a tweet from Clemmy.
                      "Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."

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

                        One has to ask how it is that a R3 presenter had to be told by a listener that there was a connection between Mendelssohn's "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage" and Elgar's "Enigma Variations".

                        And the same presenter saying "In relation to the Liszt "St Francis preaching to the Birds" piece I just played, a listener has just tweeted (my empasis) in to say..." with nary a recognition of what she has just said.
                        O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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                        • Oldcrofter
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 226

                          Which of the likely ladies did the listener opt for, Bax - Lady Mary or Helen Jessie - who inspired Elgar's nostalgic throbbing engine ?

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                          • french frank
                            Administrator/Moderator
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 30205

                            Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                            with nary a recognition of what she has just said.
                            You never know, BoD: was "Monteverdi's Paean to the Western Wind" really unwitting?
                            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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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26514

                              Originally posted by french frank View Post
                              You never know, BoD: was "Monteverdi's Paean to the Western Wind" really unwitting?


                              "...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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                              • french frank
                                Administrator/Moderator
                                • Feb 2007
                                • 30205

                                Two notifications of a reference to the Exultait Singers this morning. I enjoyed the comment that the need to introduce Exsultate jubilate would be interesting

                                Ed: There was an almost immediate correction with an acknowledgement of uncertainty as to how it was pronounced. An eagle-eared producer on the ball?
                                Last edited by french frank; 09-11-14, 18:09.
                                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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