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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by french frank View PostWho knows? Radio 3 has always liked the quirky. 'Cool' was the ex-management: it doesn't have a sense of humour ...
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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Originally posted by cloughie View Post
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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Originally posted by french frank View PostI 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 ...
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Originally posted by antongould View Postwhat colour tie Jean was wearingIt 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 muzzer View PostSkellers 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 PostSadly probably true muzzer but he is a treasure " ......you can tweet on Twitter to your heart's content...."
'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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Originally posted by antongould View PostCome, come ff we are not talking Rob Cowan here, but a man who really knows his stuff........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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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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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Postwith nary a recognition of what she has just said.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 PostYou 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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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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