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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostI'm saddened that any presenter on R3 doesn't know that 'Blest Pair of Sirens' was written by Parry and not Edward Elgar. This is basic knowledge, surely, or is this a wind-up? It does make me wonder what one has to know to become a presenter.
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostI'm saddened that any presenter on R3 doesn't know that 'Blest Pair of Sirens' was written by Parry and not Edward Elgar. This is basic knowledge, surely, or is this a wind-up? It does make me wonder what one has to know to become a presenter.
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostI'm saddened that any presenter on R3 doesn't know that 'Blest Pair of Sirens' was written by Parry and not Edward Elgar. This is basic knowledge, surely, or is this a wind-up? It does make me wonder what one has to know to become a presenter.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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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostI'm saddened that any presenter on R3 doesn't know that 'Blest Pair of Sirens' was written by Parry and not Edward Elgar. This is basic knowledge, surely, or is this a wind-up? It does make me wonder what one has to know to become a presenter.
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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostLast week GM referred to the composer of 'Blest Pair of Sirens' as Edward Elgar. This morning she attributed the Clog Dance from La Fille Mal Gardée to Hertel (whom she pronounced 'Hurtle') when it was clearly the well-known Hérold (the reference to Hertel could only possibly have resulted from a too-cursory glance at the Wikipedia entry for LFMG). The Clog Dance was introduced as the theme tune to a children's TV programme, which GM went on to describe in breathless detail, before remarking, all-too-accurately in my view, that she had missed her vocation as a children's television presenter.
I had reasonably high hopes for her as a worthy counterpart to Petroc Trelawny when she first appeared (standing in for Clemency Burton-Hill, as I recall). My disappointment and disillusion with her seems to increase by the week.
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Read the Wikipedia article on 'La fille mal gardee' more carefully and I think you will find that the main motif of the Clog Dance music was indeed written by one Peter Ludwig Hertel. John Lanchbery fashioned it into the piece we know today. Hérold was only one of the composers featured in that famous Ashton/Royal Ballet production and he had nothing to do with that number.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostSo perhaps the Clog Dance falls into the same category as Purcell’s Trumpet Voluntary, Bach’s Minuet in G, Haydn’s Toy Symphony, Mozart’s 37th Symphony, Handel’s Joy to the World, and other famous misappropriations?
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostSo perhaps the Clog Dance falls into the same category as Purcell’s Trumpet Voluntary, Bach’s Minuet in G, Haydn’s Toy Symphony, Mozart’s 37th Symphony, Handel’s Joy to the World, and other famous misappropriations?
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