Oh, and I'm pretty sure that she mispronounced Crisantemi, putting a heavy stress on the second syllable.
The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by french frank View Post
(As for Leonard Cohen, my view of him is that you really had to Be There (I was Before There and thought Suzanne the dreariest song ever written. By anyone. Ever)
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostFor an alternative opinion - Suzanne is a beautiful song either in LC's original version or in the even more beautiful interpretation by Judy Collins.
But my conclusion is that given there are wildly different types of music under the Classical banner. the logic of confining Breakfast to "Classical" doesn't hold much water. No objection to a Late Junction version of Breakfast on my part.
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Originally posted by Oddball View PostFor a further alternative opinion, I have always found the Breakfast "mix" of wildly different types of (classical) music juxtaposed together, uncomfortable and irritable at times, particularly a quiet solo instrument followed by a loud brassy orchestral piece.
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Originally posted by Oddball View PostFor a further alternative opinion, I have always found the Breakfast "mix" of wildly different types of (classical) music juxtaposed together, uncomfortable and irritable at times, particularly a quiet solo instrument followed by a loud brassy orchestral piece. Today we had Strozzi / Sibelius and Byrd sandwiched between two jazzy numbers. But that is the Breakfast formula and I guess one has to keep on one's toes.
But my conclusion is that given there are wildly different types of music under the Classical banner. the logic of confining Breakfast to "Classical" doesn't hold much water. No objection to a Late Junction version of Breakfast on my part.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 PostFor me, I don't understand what such a programme is for, especially at that time in the morning. Do people just want some music going on in the background, hiphopping around, as it were, all change every six minutes, and they're not too bothered about what comes up next? I seem to be part of the vast minority that prefers no radio at all to that. Especially when it's all punctuated with invitations to tweet in suggestions as to what to play next, who should get a blue plaque, what tomorrow's lunchtime concert will be …
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Originally posted by french frank View PostFor me, I don't understand what such a programme is for, especially at that time in the morning. Do people just want some music going on in the background, hiphopping around, as it were, all change every six minutes, and they're not too bothered about what comes up next? I seem to be part of the vast minority that prefers no radio at all to that. Especially when it's all punctuated with invitations to tweet in suggestions as to what to play next, who should get a blue plaque, what tomorrow's lunchtime concert will be …
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Originally posted by cloughie View Postff I think you have put your finger on why I rarely listed to Radio 3 Breakfast. I usually now listen to Radio Cornwall or watch BBC1 Breakfast.
For all its mega faults, R3 Breakfast is better than that, though not nearly good enough.
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I'm sure that most English speakers would go for the stress on the second syllable. My knowledge that it goes on the third is, I'm sure, thanks to an immaculate R3 presenter of yesteryear. As ever, though, what bugs me is CBH's failure to check.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostI don't know about Radio Cornwall, but BBC1 Breakfast is surely far worse than anything R3 Breakfast can offer. What, with all those fake smiles from the weather reporters, the twin presenters unable to say anything without looking at one another with a simper, and as for the mostly shallow guests..?
For all its mega faults, R3 Breakfast is better than that, though not nearly good enough.
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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostAs ever, though, what bugs me is CBH's failure to check.
To be 'well-educated' as CBH obviously is, yet know no languages (thought: does she have fluent Czech or Polish? - well, knowledge of the commonest European languages - her pronunciation of Aranjuez was interesting) seems the sign of our retreat into insularity. Our best friends are those who speak English, so give us no grief whatsoever when we want to communicate).
Rant over: I am a linguist after all (ergo, why isn't everyone else? )
Afterthought to utct: yes, my Italian doesn't stretch to knowing the names of all the garden flowers: I would have heard of Crisantemi on R3 - in fact, that's why I bought the record. Not the recording I'd heard, but the record shop reommended the one they had in stockIt 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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