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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostJust to get this off my chest once and for all...
“Rage over a Lost Penny”
TEDIOUS
But seems to be one piece that can be guaranteed to surface way too regularly.
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Originally posted by Heldenleben View PostYes it is tedious but it falls into the welcome category of piano pieces that sound flashily difficult but aren’t really unless you play it at Kissinesque speeds.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostBut less tedious than Sailing By. By several nautical miles.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostBut less tedious than Sailing By. By several nautical miles.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostI just cannot stand EA's style.
Yes, no breakfast downloads this weekend here.
Only just started listening to the Sunday 27 June edition so still got a couple of decent ones in hand…"...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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I remember in the early days of FoR3 Jenny Abramsky (then Director of Radio) said, "We want you to share your station with people whose tastes are not your own." Two answers:
1. Radio 3 was not "our" station. It was the station for serious treatment of classical music and the arts. It was authoritative, erudite, educative. When it broadcast jazz it was introduced by people who loved jazz and were very knowledgeable about it (one thing that hasn't changed).
2. People 'whose tastes are not [our] own" didn't want to share "our" station: they wanted to replace it with their own tastes. They just shared the frequency which meant Radio 3 got less. EA on Breakfast is not Radio 3, Essential Classics is hardly recognisable as Radio 3, Piano Flow and Happy Harmonies are definitely NOT Radio 3: they've just been put on Radio 3's frequency.
The latest ONS figures on people who don't use the internet (and therefore don't have access to Sounds) show they are overwhelmingly the elderly and the disabled. Downloads, listening On Demand to avoid what they don't want to listen to, are both unavailable.
But happy days and Happy Harmonies for those who have discovered to their delight that Radio 3 isn't really Radio 3 any longer.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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Originally posted by french frank View PostI remember in the early days of FoR3 Jenny Abramsky (then Director of Radio) said, "We want you to share your station with people whose tastes are not your own." Two answers:
1. Radio 3 was not "our" station. It was the station for serious treatment of classical music and the arts. It was authoritative, erudite, educative. When it broadcast jazz it was introduced by people who loved jazz and were very knowledgeable about it (one thing that hasn't changed)…
There has been plenty of first person intrusion, with presenters falling over themselves to tell listeners their names, and by signing off, thanking listeners for their company, even though it can only be fake sincerity in that their only company has been the sound technician.
Thr second person syndrome has been a characteristic of Suzy Klein, as she continues to push her tired playlist game on ES, though once again I doubt the sincerity, as she hectors the listeners by telling them how/what to think, in a matter somewhere between Ann Robinson and Priti Patel. The word “you” is used almost with derision.
The likes of Antony Hopkins predominantly used the more respectful third person throughout his career.
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