Anyone watching Only Connect - many of our favourite announcers are a connecting wall!
So they do have a use.
So they do have a use.
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Though no flicker of recognition for any of their names when VC read them out, after commenting "Presumably none of you listen to Radio 3". Inevitably, they were actually described as presenters rather than announcers...Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
On the other hand, half an hour earlier a University Challenge contestant correctly (and with impressive speed) named Charpentier as the composer of an extract played - so perhaps all is not lost and R3's appeal to youth isn't a total failure.
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Who were they? (Initials may suffice)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.Comment
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... ah, but which Charpentier were they being tested on?Originally posted by Rolmill View Post
On the other hand, half an hour earlier a University Challenge contestant correctly (and with impressive speed) named Charpentier as the composer of an extract played - so perhaps all is not lost and R3's appeal to youth isn't a total failure.Comment
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Yes - I still instinctively think of them as "announcers".Originally posted by Rolmill View Post
Yes - the lad's reaction when he heard the first few notes was one of recognition as if he'd performed or studied the work (AQA A2: Choral Music of the Baroque perhaps?) - his two teammates' simultaneous recognition of the closing lines of The Great Gatsby was identical in body language.On the other hand, half an hour earlier a University Challenge contestant correctly (and with impressive speed) named Charpentier as the composer of an extract played - so perhaps all is not lost and R3's appeal to youth isn't a total failure.
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The words were "Burton-Hill" (the giveaway for me,) "Sweet", "Service", and "Berkeley" - with "Trelawney" as the red herring (that fitted in the Cornish Castles category).Originally posted by french frank View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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The proper one!Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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I'm afraid I'll need a bit more of a clue there, ferney. Was Penny Gore one of them?Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostIt 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.Comment
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One of the rounds in Only Connect consists of sixteen seemingly-random words which the contestants have to put into four connected categories, which they then have to name. In tonight's round, "Sweet", "Service", "Berkeley", "Burton-Hill" and "Trelawney" (no forenames - that would make it too obvious) were scattered among eleven other words. If, like me, they recognised the names and could identify "Radio Three presenters" as the category, they might have missed out "Sweet" and included "Trelawney" (as I didOriginally posted by french frank View Post
) and would have got it wrong.
If you want to sample the game (which you can do on your own, or with others) the online version (with instructions) is here:
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Oh, noooo, I don't think I want to play thatOriginally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
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.Comment
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Not Gus.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
However they went on to get only 1/3 Te Deum composers right, and in another question, the composer of 'The Perfect Fool' eluded the same bright spark."...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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Yes - another Baroque composer (although a semi-guess) which is what made me wonder if he'd studied/sung in the Charpentier. (And a couple of near-misses: Smetana/Dvorak, Haydn/Mozart and RVW/Holst).Originally posted by Caliban View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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And another lad got the Mozart K191, didn't he, thanks to the 'Peter's grandfather' clue (not waiting for which cost t'other one a 5 point penalty... He should have known the clarinet concerto wasn't that early!Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post)
Rather more 'classical' music now the questions are 'more difficult'?"...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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Light dawns? :-)Originally posted by Penn Igor View PostIt 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.Comment
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