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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by antongould View Postand she may even, unlike #TheSquire, have a sense of humour .....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 PostMmm, yes - get that 'g' in 'gentilhombre'. This is someone for whom Aranjuez would hold no fears …"...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 Caliban View PostI was impressed too that we got Jean-Louis Barrault reading Baudelaire (Recueillement from Les Fleurs du mal)
I switched off Monday's prog before Serge Gainsbourg's Le Poinçonneur des Lilas came on, however.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 Zucchini View PostIt was for World Poetry Day. One off. Big deal.
(comment applies equally to ff's contribution)
I hope you noted that the request came from François Français …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 antongould View PostThe bar seems set high let's hope Manners can maintain the standard .....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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Georgia Mann is the new favourite but she has a voice that is too ‘dark’ for me, deep and sonorous and without the clarity, wit and lightness of touch of Ian Skelly and Penny Gore, my current favourites. And GM does play some rather odd music, French chanson, MoR, Sondheim, and other lightweight fillers that seem somewhat incongruous on Radio 3. Still, she is an enormous improvement on the Cornishman. Where has he disappeared to? Gone fishin'?
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Originally posted by DaisyDog View Post..... the Cornishman. Where has he disappeared to? Gone fishin'?
(BTW, channel hopped on to Katie D doing the Vera Lynn tribute programme late last night. (Don't worry, she was involved in linking and "out and about" segments - didn't seem she was allowed near Vera herself)). And OK .... I'll admit it, I dropped my resistance, ("...its 71 years since the end of WWII.... is it not time to move on.....") and watched it for a while I have to say, and was struck with what I supposed I knew from all those 1960's radio programmes that she was a very good vocal artist - I'm sure that is no news).
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Originally posted by DaisyDog View PostGeorgia Mann is the new favourite but she has a voice that is too ‘dark’ for me, deep and sonorous and without the clarity, wit and lightness of touch of Ian Skelly and Penny Gore, my current favourites. And GM does play some rather odd music, French chanson, MoR, Sondheim, and other lightweight fillers that seem somewhat incongruous on Radio 3. Still, she is an enormous improvement on the Cornishman. Where has he disappeared to? Gone fishin'?
Yes her choice of music is beginning to worry me just a little. #TheSquire has seemingly taken the Proms to Dubai ....
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Originally posted by antongould View PostYes her choice of music is beginning to worry me just a little.
But, and it's only intended as a comment on my own listening, I find the constant changes in style every 6 minutes or so (on average) also disruptive; as are trails. Let's not go down the road of emails or tweets - or even hearing about who requested the Bach Before 7 piece. Not my kind of listening these days. I want substantial pieces that I can get absorbed in - and I don't really understand why anyone who is rushing to go to work needs to listen more than superficially to longer works, given that they're apparently doing that anyway
And if R3 needs listeners to suggest pieces, I don't see the need to tell everyone on air who that person was. Stuff a fiver in an envelope to them with a thank-you note.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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