The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Mind you, thinking about it Mahler 3 complete on Breakfast would cut out a lot of twittering and waffle!

What a marvellous idea!

[Alain Maréchal]

I am listening to "Breakfast" for the first time in months. Clemency Burton-Hill has just informed us she is "a massive fan of the music of Louise Farrenc". Miss Burton-Hill's photograph does not indicate she has a severe weight problem.

[french frank]

I am listening to "Breakfast" for the first time in months. Clemency Burton-Hill has just informed us she is "a massive fan of the music of Louise Farrenc". Miss Burton-Hill's photograph does not indicate she has a severe weight problem.

She's also a massive fan of Gerry and the Pacemakers singing 'Ferry Cross the Mersey'. Nevertheless, all credit to Radio 3 management for introducing presenters to composers like Louise Farrenc.

[antongould]

She's also a massive fan of Gerry and the Pacemakers singing 'Ferry Cross the Mersey'. ......

I think not ff if I recall - a listener - life would be easier without them - suggested Ferry as an entry in the current music box/playlist/whatever and after a few seconds of heart searching Clem decided the customer was always right ....

[Alain Maréchal]

Perhaps it was a mishearing of "Farrenc across the Meuse".


(sorry...)

[Richard Tarleton]

Nevertheless, all credit to Radio 3 management for introducing presenters to composers like Louise Farrenc.

[french frank]

I think not ff if I recall - a listener - life would be easier without them - suggested Ferry as an entry in the current music box/playlist/whatever and after a few seconds of heart searching Clem decided the customer was always right ....

But didn't the listener request the Pat Metheny version - and Clemmy said, If we're going to play it, it has to be the original: here's Gerry and the Pacemakers? No heart-searching - she said she was glad it was suggested and she was a big fan. It was listeners who said they didn't think much of the idea

[ahinton]

Perhaps it was a mishearing of "Farrenc across the Meuse".

!!!

[antongould]

But didn't the listener request the Pat Metheny version - and Clemmy said, If we're going to play it, it has to be the original: here's Gerry and the Pacemakers? No heart-searching - she said she was glad it was suggested and she was a big fan. It was listeners who said they didn't think much of the idea

Not as I recall ....

[oddoneout]

Well shortly it won't matter if it's Ferrenc or ferry as music will give way to listeners' audio clips of the noises in their gardens(to tie in with the latest music box 'gardens' theme I think) - and if this morning's offering of occasional chicken cluck and (allegedly) distant church bells is typical of what's on offer then it's going to be 'offenswitchen' for a while.
I have nothing against hearing birdsong on R3 and have been enjoying the Sunday morning offerings, but that's different - proper recordings and then music links, but otherwise I want fewer (listener)tweets not more....

[french frank]

Not as I recall ....

1. Ferry Cross the Mersey was suggested in a text for the 'Water Music' theme

2. She was in trouble, she said, 'with lots of you' for suggesting that it wasn't appropriate for Radio 3's water music, which (they said) was 'absolute nonsense'.

3. "I have to say I'm very glad that you think that because, as I said at the time, I'm a big fan of this song. And seeing as so many of you have jumped in to support it and request it we absolutely have to play it."

4. A couple of you suggested the version by Pat Metheny.

5. "But I think if we're gonna play it, let's do the original. Here's Gerry and the Pacemakers."

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I think not ff if I recall - a listener - life would be easier without them - suggested Ferry as an entry in the current music box/playlist/whatever and after a few seconds of heart searching Clem decided the customer was always right ....

How is it that WE are always wrong?

[antongould]

1. Ferry Cross the Mersey was suggested in a text for the 'Water Music' theme

2. She was in trouble, she said, 'with lots of you' for suggesting that it wasn't appropriate for Radio 3's water music, which (they said) was 'absolute nonsense'.

3. "I have to say I'm very glad that you think that because, as I said at the time, I'm a big fan of this song. And seeing as so many of you have jumped in to support it and request it we absolutely have to play it."

4. A couple of you suggested the version by Pat Metheny.

5. "But I think if we're gonna play it, let's do the original. Here's Gerry and the Pacemakers."

Official BBC transcript ... ???

[Richard Tarleton]

listeners' audio clips of the noises in their gardens(to tie in with the latest music box 'gardens' theme I think)

Just this minute tuned in to Breakfast, to hear a recording of a wren singing with gulls in the distance. Then a piece of music started, which is still playing.

Mrs T is listening (I 'm just going out for half an hour) - hopefully she can tell me later what was going on.

[ahinton]

Just this minute tuned in to Breakfast, to hear a recording of a wren singing with gulls in the distance. Then a piece of music started, which is still playing.

Mrs T is listening (I 'm just going out for half an hour) - hopefully she can tell me later what was going on.

If the gulls were the herring variety it might have been David Matthews' A Vision of the Sea; not sure whta the wren was doing there, though - many that was someone's curative idea (as in curating).