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  • salymap
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 5969

    here was a rather strange entry in the Schedule for Breakfast today.

    something by Thalben Ball, performer Huw Williams,performer Organ of St Paul's Cathedral.

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    • french frank
      Administrator/Moderator
      • Feb 2007
      • 30235

      Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post
      especially the playlists a shocking mess at the moment
      I think they're all busy keeping Facebook and Twitter going. I was out this morning, waiting to pick someone up for lunch, and heard a bit of a piano trio which I didn't recognise. 11.45am. Looked later at the EC playlist but nothing resembling what I heard. Sped through LA and found it was Fauré's Op 120. Unless I'm going mad (it is Tuesday, isn't it?) there's still no sign of it on the playlist. Not that it matters, but it would have been more convenient just to read it rather than fiddle around trying to find the announcement on LA.
      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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      • antongould
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8778

        Originally posted by salymap View Post
        here was a rather strange entry in the Schedule for Breakfast today.

        something by Thalben Ball, performer Huw Williams,performer Organ of St Paul's Cathedral.
        ...and I bet you have met George Thalben-Ball?

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        • teamsaint
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 25193

          Originally posted by JFLL View Post
          For gawd's sake don't encourage the b*ggers!
          I have sent one text in to a radio show.
          It was to 5 live, concerning public transport, and the excellent bus service in Rome.
          Simon Mayo read it out.
          I have never sent in another.
          I don't know what this proves !
          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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          • Don Petter

            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
            I have sent one text in to a radio show.
            It was to 5 live, concerning public transport, and the excellent bus service in Rome.
            Simon Mayo read it out.
            I have never sent in another.
            I don't know what this proves !
            'Ameo sed omnibus'!

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            • Bax-of-Delights
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 745

              Originally posted by french frank View Post
              I think they're all busy keeping Facebook and Twitter going. I was out this morning, waiting to pick someone up for lunch, and heard a bit of a piano trio which I didn't recognise. 11.45am. Looked later at the EC playlist but nothing resembling what I heard. Sped through LA and found it was Fauré's Op 120. Unless I'm going mad (it is Tuesday, isn't it?) there's still no sign of it on the playlist. Not that it matters, but it would have been more convenient just to read it rather than fiddle around trying to find the announcement on LA.
              Even the Facebook page is now becoming a bit of a mess. If one clicks on "posts by others" up comes all sorts of irrelevancy including articles on freight rates to Nigeria etc etc.
              I see one of my "friends" has now "deliked" (please excuse the Orwellianspeak) R3's facebook page and I'm thinking I might follow suit. It adds nothing to my sum of knowledge.
              Except there is a nicely barbed posting on: "The Art of Cultural Appeasement – The BBC’s Maestro At The Opera" which others may like to read. If it has been posted eleswhere on this site my apologies but maybe it deserves a thread of its own FF?

              According to a press release from the BBC, four ‘well-known’ personalities will ‘compete to conduct a complete Act of a legendary opera performance on the hallowed main stage of the Royal Opera Hou…
              O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30235

                Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                Even the Facebook page is now becoming a bit of a mess. If one clicks on "posts by others" up comes all sorts of irrelevancy including articles on freight rates to Nigeria etc etc.
                And there's more! No wonder they leave them there: they swamp the critics.

                Wonderfully controlled anger in that article, B-o-D.
                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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                • Bax-of-Delights
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 745

                  Interestingly James May - guest on Essential Classics - in response to Dr.Walker's query on how R3 could change to be more popular said that "R3 should not change" and that "if someone didn't like the music they should go and do something else".
                  Now, whether he means R3 as it is now or was before 2007 (at least) is a moot point...
                  O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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                  • Ferretfancy
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 3487

                    Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                    Interestingly James May - guest on Essential Classics - in response to Dr.Walker's query on how R3 could change to be more popular said that "R3 should not change" and that "if someone didn't like the music they should go and do something else".
                    Now, whether he means R3 as it is now or was before 2007 (at least) is a moot point...
                    James May has been an interesting choice for interview, and he seems to have developed his own enthusiasm for music from the old Radio 3, saying earlier this week that music should not just be for comfort, but was worth working at for maximum enjoyment. I doubt whether he has much time for the current daytime trivia, but as a polite and kindly person he could hardly be too critical. There must be many broadcasters who deeply regret the decay of so much that is best, but like James May they are not free to say very much.
                    Just in passing, we were given a strictly workmanlike and routine performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto by Thomas Zehetmair this morning, hardly a top choice in this wonderful work, but nevertheless it was introduced with fulsome praise as always.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26523

                      Originally posted by Ferretfancy View Post
                      I doubt whether he has much time for the current daytime trivia, but as a polite and kindly person he could hardly be too critical.
                      ...plus he was taking part in what is arguably a feature of that very daytime trivia
                      "...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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                      • Bax-of-Delights
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 745

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        ...plus he was taking part in what is arguably a feature of that very daytime trivia
                        Yeeees, quite. The irony of it didn't go unnoticed here at BoD Towers.
                        O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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                        • Suffolkcoastal
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 3290

                          Just looked at the updated schedule pages and they look awful. I see there was another major gaffe on Inessential Classics this morning. According to the schedule the brainteaser was the year in question, in this case 1913, one of the works in this teaser was Ein Alpensinfonie was that not completed in 1915???

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                          • Ferretfancy
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 3487

                            Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post
                            Just looked at the updated schedule pages and they look awful. I see there was another major gaffe on Inessential Classics this morning. According to the schedule the brainteaser was the year in question, in this case 1913, one of the works in this teaser was Ein Alpensinfonie was that not completed in 1915???
                            Sorry, Suffolkcoastal, but this morning's brainteaser featured The Rite of Spring, one of Webern's Bagatelles for string quartet, and Ondine from the 2nd book of Debussy Preludes - no mountain peaks in sight, but all dating from 1913, so the schedule was wrong but the answer on air was correct.

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                            • Suffolkcoastal
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 3290

                              Another website gaffe then, they are so numerous these days it seems to be 2nd nature.

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                              • mercia
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8920

                                the new-look playlists are OK except they now rather test my mathematical skills for working out when a certain piece will be played


                                one hour 39 minutes after 6:30am, so the little hand will be between ............ and the big hand ..........

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