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  • antongould
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8778
    #6046
    Originally posted by french frank View Post
    I see from the playlist that this morning's listeners had another bit of brassband Verdi this morning, by request (Grimethorpe this time): the overture from, er, The Force of Destiny Strange indeed are the Ways of Three
    ...... and Rumpole's Rodeo IIRC - perhaps he fell off his bike ... ???

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26523
      #6047
      Originally posted by antongould View Post
      ...... and Rumpole's Rodeo IIRC - perhaps he fell off his bike ... ???
      No fear, anton - Breakfast on the Bike??! You're joking.

      It was Handel on CotW as I rode(o) east today, perfect as I went sailing past GF's house on Brook Street and a short while later, Coram's Hospital in Bloomsbury.
      "...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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      • Zucchini
        Guest
        • Nov 2010
        • 917
        #6048
        Originally posted by french frank View Post
        I see from the playlist that this morning's listeners had another bit of brassband Verdi this morning, by request (Grimethorpe this time): the overture from, er, The Force of Destiny Strange indeed are the Ways of Three
        Originally posted by Flay View Post
        ...then the Force was discussed so I assumed this would be its cue. But no, Clemmy then said they couldn't manage to fit it into the show today...
        What's strange about Clemmie saying she couldn't fit it [FoD overture] in then kindly playing it a couple of days later?

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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8778
          #6049
          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          No fear, anton - Breakfast on the Bike??! You're joking.

          It was Handel on CotW as I rode(o) east today, perfect as I went sailing past GF's house on Brook Street and a short while later, Coram's Hospital in Bloomsbury.
          Many similar, or better, rides to work available midst the pit heaps Rumpole ... and thanks to the magic of radio we also have "On Yer Mobile" ....

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30235
            #6050
            Originally posted by Zucchini View Post
            What's strange about Clemmie saying she couldn't fit it [FoD overture] in then kindly playing it a couple of days later?
            Ooh, I don't know, on reflection, Zucchers. I can see now that it wouldn't have been possible to fit in the overture to the Force of Destiny the first time

            I think she might have just fitted in, though, if she hadn't read out, and then commented on, two tweets from listeners about the Grand March from Aida …
            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
              • 26523
              #6051
              Originally posted by antongould View Post
              Many similar, or better, rides to work available midst the pit heaps Rumpole ... and thanks to the magic of radio we also have "On Yer Mobile" ....
              "...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
                • 30235
                #6052
                Anyway, moving swiftly on …

                I liked this link to Martin's 21 Nov programme: 'Ethel Smith's Symphonic Serenade'.
                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
                  • 8778
                  #6053
                  Originally posted by french frank View Post
                  Anyway, moving swiftly on …

                  I liked this link to Martin's 21 Nov programme: 'Ethel Smith's Symphonic Serenade'.
                  Scary ... what would salymap think ... ??

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                  • Eine Alpensinfonie
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20570
                    #6054
                    Originally posted by Zucchini View Post
                    What's strange about Clemmie saying she couldn't fit it [FoD overture] in then kindly playing it a couple of days later?
                    What is strange is that the power to choose what it is to be played continues to be handed to the presenter, resulting in yukky programmes from dawn 'til noon, and again from 4.30 'til 6.30.

                    A better way would be to plan programmes two weeks ahead and print the playlists in Radio Times. But, oh dear, there wouldn't be room for endless lists of short pieces. No problem - just play longer ones instead.

                    They did that 20 years ago and it worked.

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22114
                      #6055
                      Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                      What is strange is that the power to choose what it is to be played continues to be handed to the presenter, resulting in yukky programmes from dawn 'til noon, and again from 4.30 'til 6.30.

                      A better way would be to plan programmes two weeks ahead and print the playlists in Radio Times. But, oh dear, there wouldn't be room for endless lists of short pieces. No problem - just play longer ones instead.

                      They did that 20 years ago and it worked.
                      Sure did, Alps!

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                      • french frank
                        Administrator/Moderator
                        • Feb 2007
                        • 30235
                        #6056
                        Originally posted by antongould View Post
                        Scary ... what would salymap think ... ??
                        Dunno what salymap would think, but I was highly amused at the photo. Dame Ethel Mary Smyth has a tracklist of her own somewhere. So how did the Breakfast playlist manage to convert the name to Ethel Smith? And then attribute most of Dame Ethel's works to her?
                        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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                        • oddoneout
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2015
                          • 9141
                          #6057
                          But, oh dear, there wouldn't be room for endless lists of short pieces.
                          There probably would be if they went back to the same(proportionate) amount of space that used to be available in the so-called Radio Times for information about radio programmes, before they decided to squash twice as much material onto the same two pages. But yes, playing longer pieces in more of the slots would help.

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                          • ahinton
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 16122
                            #6058
                            Originally posted by french frank View Post
                            Dunno what salymap would think, but I was highly amused at the photo. Dame Ethel Mary Smyth has a tracklist of her own somewhere. So how did the Breakfast playlist manage to convert the name to Ethel Smith? And then attribute most of Dame Ethel's works to her?
                            Oh, it could have been worse; just imagine Ethyl Smith...

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920
                              #6059
                              last night's Through The Night (with its available pre-broadcast playlist) on paper had 35 works in 6 hours average 10 minutes each (is 10 minutes 'short' ?), but looking closer at the list we had Grieg 3 Lyric Pieces so that adds 2 to the 35, and if we counted the six movements of Schubert's Octet in a Breakfast way that would add 5 more to the total - thus, with other examples, the average length is eventually shortening perhaps down to 5 minutes ............

                              ............ I've completely forgotten what point I was trying to make

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                              • antongould
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8778
                                #6060
                                But it could be said to be a fair one mercs ......

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