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  • Old Grumpy
    Full Member
    • Jan 2011
    • 3612

    Originally posted by Padraig View Post
    Not a Breakfast listener, normally; too early for me!. However I did hear at around 8.45 this morning a piece called Orchestral Groupies with Shaved Heads. I found out the title after I had listened to and enjoyed immensely a humorous piece of writing with a musical theme. Maybe the shaved head wasn't so funny, but it was a sparkling short story all the same.

    PS I see there are 6 more pieces in this series. I must listen some more.
    , me too. The Stravinsky one nearly had me off the road...

    ... very moving.

    OG

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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12815

      Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
      That avatar must be a picture of you age 10 then...

      ... now hanging in the library, I presume.

      OG
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      o, I wish...

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      Last edited by vinteuil; 15-06-17, 16:28.

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      • muzzer
        Full Member
        • Nov 2013
        • 1192

        Georgia Mann this sticky morning, a cool voice in a febrile world. Marvellous.

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26534

          Five mornings of Skelly next week (if Radio Times is to be believed)....

          "...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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          • antongould
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8782

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Five mornings of Skelly next week (if Radio Times is to be believed)....

            We are saved IMVVHO .....

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            • Stanfordian
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 9311

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Five mornings of Skelly next week (if Radio Times is to be believed)....

              Yee-Haa!

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              • DaisyDog
                Full Member
                • Jun 2016
                • 54

                Gorgia in the morning? No thank you. Her voice is too dark for me and hard to follow. And if she's such a hot-shot radio producer/presenter she should know the difference between Poulenc and Dvorak, which this morning she didn't. Back of the class Miss Mann-Smith.

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                • Zucchini
                  Guest
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 917

                  Originally posted by DaisyDog View Post
                  ... she should know the difference between Poulenc and Dvorak, which this morning she didn't.
                  What does that mean?

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                  • french frank
                    Administrator/Moderator
                    • Feb 2007
                    • 30285

                    Originally posted by Zucchini View Post
                    What does that mean?
                    I wondered that. Wasn't it Petroc this morning, GM-S yesterday?
                    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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                    • DaisyDog
                      Full Member
                      • Jun 2016
                      • 54

                      Yes indeed, the Cornishman is back. The Georgia Mann was on the previous day, filling in I expect. She misattributed a piece by Poulenc to Dvorak. Probably by misreading the CD notes and not listening. Inexcusable for such an allegedly hotshot producer/presenter.

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                      • french frank
                        Administrator/Moderator
                        • Feb 2007
                        • 30285

                        Originally posted by DaisyDog View Post
                        Yes indeed, the Cornishman is back. The Georgia Mann was on the previous day, filling in I expect. She misattributed a piece by Poulenc to Dvorak. Probably by misreading the CD notes and not listening. Inexcusable for such an allegedly hotshot producer/presenter.
                        Daisy - I think you must have dropped off for half an hour. She attributed the piece by Poulenc (Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone) to Poulenc, before and after, and similarly a bit later announced and back announced the Dvořák (Serenade in D minor for wind instruments, Op 44) as being by Dvořák.

                        Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
                        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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                        • teamsaint
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 25209

                          Originally posted by french frank View Post
                          Daisy - I think you must have dropped off for half an hour. She attributed the piece by Poulenc (Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone) to Poulenc, before and after, and similarly a bit later announced and back announced the Dvořák (Serenade in D minor for wind instruments, Op 44) as being by Dvořák.

                          http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08v8tm1
                          She'll never pick up and MBE for services to broadcasting and being a jolly nice chap by getting everything right........
                          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                          I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                          • Pulcinella
                            Host
                            • Feb 2014
                            • 10925

                            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                            She'll never pick up and MBE for services to broadcasting and being a jolly nice chap by getting everything right........
                            I think she got a bit confused in what she said after the Stravinsky violin concerto extract (Hilary Hahn as soloist), though. It was introduced correctly as the last movement, but later she called it Stravinsky's Capriccio (the title of that movement, admittedly, but also that of an entirely different piece). An excusable slip, but a slightly unfortunate one. But perhaps I dropped off or misheard too.

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                              I think she got a bit confused in what she said after the Stravinsky violin concerto extract (Hilary Hahn as soloist), though. It was introduced correctly as the last movement, but later she called it Stravinsky's Capriccio (the title of that movement, admittedly, but also that of an entirely different piece). An excusable slip, but a slightly unfortunate one. But perhaps I dropped off or misheard too.
                              Well - not really; if it had been the Finale of a Mozart Horn Concerto that she'd then referred to as "Mozart's Rondo", we wouldn't really call it "an excusable slip" would we?
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • Pulcinella
                                Host
                                • Feb 2014
                                • 10925

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                Well - not really; if it had been the Finale of a Mozart Horn Concerto that she'd then referred to as "Mozart's Rondo", we wouldn't really call it "an excusable slip" would we?
                                True.
                                I should perhaps have said understandable not excusable: excusable in the sense that I could see how it happened.
                                (I enjoyed the extract very much too, not having heard that recording before, so maybe that put me in a good and forgiving mood. )

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