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  • oddoneout
    Full Member
    • Nov 2015
    • 9141

    Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
    For me Breakfast is greatly improved by the news being restricted to one bulletin at 0800. One and a half hours of uninterrupted music till then is good. (I could do without the three residual weather forecasts, too.)

    However, no doubt they will all be back once the news announcers can return I assume five news bulletins is part of the breakfast schtick, in the view of the suits.
    Now if we could have just the one morning bulletin, given by R3 newsreaders... I agree that the current arrangement has improved the flow of the Breakfast programme, not least in my view because the half hour set-up always seems to involve an advert as well, further constraining the music layout. And yes, the weather 'forecasts', untethered as they are,seem rather (even more) pointless.

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    • kernelbogey
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 5735

      Antony Hopkins CBE (21 March 1921 – 6 May 2014)
      Just honoured on Breakfast with the broadcast of three pieces of his music*. He was a really important (virtual) part of my musical education as a teenager.


      A Humble Song to the Birds: You need not peep
      Performer: Janet Simpson. Singer: James Gilchrist.

      Jig: Vivace (Suite)
      Performer: John Turner. Performer: Janet Simpson.

      Tango
      Performer: Philip Fowke.


      *Possibly more to come?
      Last edited by kernelbogey; 19-03-21, 08:30.

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      • Serial_Apologist
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 37588

        Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
        Antony Hopkins CBE (21 March 1921 – 6 May 2014)
        Just honoured on Breakfast with the broadcast of three pieces of his music*. He was a really important (virtual) part of my musical education as a teenager.


        A Humble Song to the Birds: You need not peep
        Performer: Janet Simpson. Singer: James Gilchrist.

        Jig: Vivace (Suite)
        Performer: John Turner. Performer: Janet Simpson.

        Tango
        Performer: Philip Fowke.


        *Possibly more to come?
        Too much Breakfast to trawl through to reach those pieces, I'm afraid.

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        • french frank
          Administrator/Moderator
          • Feb 2007
          • 30235

          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
          Too much Breakfast to trawl through to reach those pieces, I'm afraid.
          Starts with the intro at 1h 39m, Serial. It's still fiddly but if you start the recording you do get an indication as to which piece is playing (red pulsing lines) and can use the slider. Hope whoever noted that it was his centenary will be willing to move to Salford. PT's choices don't seem to have the awful genre clashes
          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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          • Serial_Apologist
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 37588

            Originally posted by french frank View Post
            Starts with the intro at 1h 39m, Serial. It's still fiddly but if you start the recording you do get an indication as to which piece is playing (red pulsing lines) and can use the slider. Hope whoever noted that it was his centenary will be willing to move to Salford. PT's choices don't seem to have the awful genre clashes
            Thank you very much, ff.

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            • oddoneout
              Full Member
              • Nov 2015
              • 9141

              Originally posted by french frank View Post
              Starts with the intro at 1h 39m, Serial. It's still fiddly but if you start the recording you do get an indication as to which piece is playing (red pulsing lines) and can use the slider. Hope whoever noted that it was his centenary will be willing to move to Salford. PT's choices don't seem to have the awful genre clashes
              And they were all played as a group so it's only finding the start that's the issue.

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              • kernelbogey
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 5735

                Any views on the birdsong recognition feature on Sundays? So far nothing new to me; but I'm hoping some avian puzzles will be untangled in coming weeks....

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                • oddoneout
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2015
                  • 9141

                  Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                  Any views on the birdsong recognition feature on Sundays? So far nothing new to me; but I'm hoping some avian puzzles will be untangled in coming weeks....
                  I've enjoyed the two so far, and think they are well done. Whether it's R3 might be another issue but as it's in Breakfast perhaps not so much of one, and at least it isn't out of the blue since Sounds of the Earth is (was - is this a replacement?) almost entirely birdsong.

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                  • kernelbogey
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 5735

                    Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                    I've enjoyed the two so far, and think they are well done. Whether it's R3 might be another issue but as it's in Breakfast perhaps not so much of one, and at least it isn't out of the blue since Sounds of the Earth is (was - is this a replacement?) almost entirely birdsong.
                    Same here.... but haven't they temporarily dropped the 'bells' in favour of this...? Anyway I think the 'lesson' is for the next 10 (?) weeks.

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                    • Old Grumpy
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2011
                      • 3596

                      Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                      I've enjoyed the two so far, and think they are well done. Whether it's R3 might be another issue but as it's in Breakfast perhaps not so much of one, and at least it isn't out of the blue since Sounds of the Earth is (was - is this a replacement?) almost entirely birdsong.
                      Ominous...


                      ...IIRC birdsong was used as a test transmission prior to the commencement of programmed transmissions on CFM!

                      OG
                      Last edited by Old Grumpy; 30-03-21, 08:48. Reason: Insertion of link

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                      • LMcD
                        Full Member
                        • Sep 2017
                        • 8402

                        Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                        Same here.... but haven't they temporarily dropped the 'bells' in favour of this...? Anyway I think the 'lesson' is for the next 10 (?) weeks.
                        Perhaps it's a Baldrickian plan to increase the number of tweets from Radio 3 listeners.

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                        • Old Grumpy
                          Full Member
                          • Jan 2011
                          • 3596

                          Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                          Perhaps it's a Baldrickian plan to increase the number of tweets from Radio 3 listeners.

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                          • kernelbogey
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 5735

                            Anyone remember Ludwig Koch?

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                            • LMcD
                              Full Member
                              • Sep 2017
                              • 8402

                              I would like to nominate the entire Breakfast team for the inaugural 'Playing-A-Movement-From-a-Mahler-Symphony-Other-Than-THAT-Adagietto' medal.

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                              • DracoM
                                Host
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 12960

                                Getting a wee bit concerned by the regular insistence that SK says she is playing 'my favourite this / that'.
                                Why such personalisation / ownership?
                                Might it not have exactly the opposite impact on including listeners i.e. 'well, mate it may be yours but it ain't mine, so hoppit!'

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