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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30209

    Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View Post
    EA: you've missed out the really big news! An estimable Cornwall-based composer called Paul Drayton has arranged it (just for a lark?) for choir and solo violin, the choir singing Meredith's words. First performance shortly, somewhere in Gloucs/ Worcs I think Petroc said.
    Paul Drayton, composer. I did wonder whether it was a pseudonym of Petroc Trelawny or LeMartinPecheur. but I see he is a different Cornwaller.
    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
      • 9135

      Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
      This morning we have had a rather pleasant little snippet called The Lark Ascending. I’m surprised they haven’t included it before.
      It's the fault of the D-Day commemorations apparently.

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      • teamsaint
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 25190

        Contrary to my expectations, I think Alkers is doing a decent job presenting afternoons.
        Seems to be well prepared, and has a good fact - led approach.

        Happy to be put right though......
        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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        • teamsaint
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 25190

          Ok, so that was before the interview with Mark Simpson.

          Oh dear.......

          The lesson from which must surely be that attention to detail and presenting a playlist is one thing, running specialist programmes requires a deeper understanding.
          Last edited by teamsaint; 10-06-19, 15:17.
          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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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            What time do you get up, ts?!

            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • teamsaint
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 25190

              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              What time do you get up, ts?!

              I think Eliza and the Oysterband put it more poetically and tunefully than I can.

              Incidentally, would you like me to start a new thread moaning about the standard of R3 presenters, and the random times that they pop up in the schedules, presumably just to confuse the listeners ?

              We could call it "Mr McGregor's garden", or something.

              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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              • Serial_Apologist
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 37560

                I'm sure I heard Rachmaninov's third piano concerto being announced, and then followed by a recording of Ravel's "Jeux d'eau" this morning. I thought: eh?? It was pretty early on in Breakfast, and admittedly I'd only just woken up. or I thought I'd woken up.

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                • alycidon
                  Full Member
                  • Feb 2013
                  • 459

                  Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                  I'm sure I heard Rachmaninov's third piano concerto being announced, and then followed by a recording of Ravel's "Jeux d'eau" this morning. I thought: eh?? It was pretty early on in Breakfast, and admittedly I'd only just woken up. or I thought I'd woken up.
                  That happens to me all the time SA - and when I’m fully awake, to boot. My defence is that I am rather hard of hearing at the best of times.
                  Money can't buy you happiness............but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery - Spike Milligan

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                  • Eine Alpensinfonie
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20569

                    Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                    Fans of Alkers will find her on Afternoon Concert today.

                    And she seems to have brought Bravo Man along with her.......
                    E. A. is. still. on. her. reading. scheme. I. am. surprised. that. the B. B. C. employs. anyone. so. wooden. and. dalek. like. on. a. channel. as. refined. as. radio. 3. Maybe. she. was. moved. here. because. the audience. was. smaller. meaning. she. would. annoy. fewer. people.

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                    • LMcD
                      Full Member
                      • Sep 2017
                      • 8396

                      Bagpuss segues into Brahms courtesy of 'The Wicker Man' - what's not to like? I've contacted Georgia to suggest she fits in a quick burst of 'Summer is icumen in'.

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                      • Eine Alpensinfonie
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20569

                        Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                        Bagpuss segues into Brahms courtesy of 'The Wicker Man' - what's not to like? I've contacted Georgia to suggest she fits in a quick burst of 'Summer is icumen in'.
                        Lap-dissolved chunks now.

                        But it’s a refreshing change to have decent speech delivery on Breakfast, without poor punctuation, gasping, giggling and attention-seeking.

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                        • LMcD
                          Full Member
                          • Sep 2017
                          • 8396

                          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                          Lap-dissolved chunks now.

                          But it’s a refreshing change to have decent speech delivery on Breakfast, without poor punctuation, gasping, giggling and attention-seeking.
                          It's probably a failing on my part, but if I really have problems with a presenter's voice and what he or she does with it, I'm more than likely to switch off. I think that those of us who find that the good ship 'Breakfast' offers the right kind of musical melange for its time slot are fortunate to have Petroc and Georgia at the helm.

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                          • Eine Alpensinfonie
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 20569

                            Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                            It's probably a failing on my part, but if I really have problems with a presenter's voice and what he or she does with it, I'm more than likely to switch off. I think that those of us who find that the good ship 'Breakfast' offers the right kind of musical melange for its time slot are fortunate to have Petroc and Georgia at the helm.
                            I think of it more as a plastic toy boat.

                            But Georgia’s the best of the bunch. SK’s now taken over and the ship has well and truly sunk. I have switched off!

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37560

                              Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                              and Georgia at the helm.

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                              • antongould
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8774

                                I hope the GM fans were listening this morning we had .....

                                1) more bloody Bagpuss
                                2) What she referred to as Bernstein’s Summertime “sung” by the Zombies

                                She eventually corrected herself by saying that it was of course Gershwin’s Summertime “I knew that”, in the best SK schoolmarm manner ....

                                She seems to be tweeting and responding to tweets all the time she is on air ..... is this wise ..... ..... ?????

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