I suspect I might not be alone in listening to EA's hyperventilating of her "Unclassified" programme, listening to the electronic burblings of composers she believes are "wonderful" and thinking to myself that Tangerine Dream, Tonto's Expanding Head Band and Beaver & Krause produced more engaging music of this type some 40+ years ago.
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostI suspect I might not be alone in listening to EA's hyperventilating of her "Unclassified" programme, listening to the electronic burblings of composers she believes are "wonderful" and thinking to myself that Tangerine Dream, Tonto's Expanding Head Band and Beaver & Krause produced more engaging music of this type some 40+ years ago.
I enjoyed singing along to Myfanwy albeit with Englsh words about Cornwall.
Maybe Lizzie’s programme should be sub-titled ‘Parson’s Egg (Curate if you pedantically prefer Bryn) and Croissants’.
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To avoid Thought for the Day, I switched on R3 for a few minutes and was assaulted by discordant accordion (?) music from "Kate's classical commute".
Whatever was it? And was there a health warning?
Update: It was Grains by Pauline Oliveros.
Quite a shock in the shower with much cursing, wish it had been the following Scarlatti.Last edited by AuntDaisy; 15-09-21, 07:28. Reason: Found it on the Breakfast listing, not sure why I missed it first time round
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Originally posted by AuntDaisy View PostTo avoid Thought for the Day, I switched on R3 for a few minutes and was assaulted by discordant accordion (?) music from "Kate's classical commute".
Whatever was it? And was there a health warning?
Update: It was Grains by Pauline Oliveros.
Quite a shock in the shower with much cursing, wish it had been the following Scarlatti.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 AuntDaisy View PostTo avoid Thought for the Day, I switched on R3 for a few minutes and was assaulted by discordant accordion (?) music from "Kate's classical commute".
Whatever was it? And was there a health warning?
Update: It was Grains by Pauline Oliveros.
Quite a shock in the shower with much cursing, wish it had been the following Scarlatti.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostYes - mostly Kate’s choices are fine but there’s always at least one piece per day from the ‘ Billy No Tunes’ school of musical composition! Bottom of my list along with unpleasant voices.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostI suppose Kate Molleson's choices are always likely to feature (relatively) modern composers, mixed with jazz, popular and, unlike the late night shows, still with a majority of core classical. It does seem to me that the classical world of administrators and 'educators' feels it's important that classical music should merge naturally into a single musical landscape. Unfortunately, this is a goal seldom shared by the much larger non-classical world which with its abundance of genres doesn't need classical music merged in, and tends to ignore it almost totally. I'm not certain that this will benefit classical music in the long run.
Good point about "the much larger non-classical world" - how often does "Classical" music appear on, say, Radio 1?
Originally posted by cloughie View PostYes - mostly Kate’s choices are fine but there’s always at least one piece per day from the ‘ Billy No Tunes’ school of musical composition! Bottom of my list along with unpleasant voices.
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There was a Smetana String Quartet played as the last item on TTN, which seemed to me very poorly conceived, in part. KM's first choice of Avro Part's Summa reset my feeling about String Compositions, and all was well with the world. For that I can forgive her everything - not that I need to!
Well blimey, she did play as a request Theme Music for the Onedin Line (also known to some as the Theme from Spartacus)!
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Originally posted by AuntDaisy View PostYes, looking at the listings there were definitely pieces I'd enjoy - but not with the jarring assaults.
Good point about "the much larger non-classical world" - how often does "Classical" music appear on, say, Radio 1?
I loved your "Billy No Tunes" description - spot on & an instant off-button. Forgive my ignorance, but what is "unpleasant voices"?
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostUnpleasant voices - a very personal thing as some I like others wouldn’t and vice versa but for me dreary ones that drone on, heavy vibrato, over intense sobby voices, trilly not always on the note sopranos, and recently a superfluity of Joyce di Dinato, although she toned it down in the Mozart this morning. OG definitely not Kate - I find her voice ideal for radio and really good for Breakfast! Also I’m not over-keen on diddly violins!
The elderly lady in Steven Isserlis' tweet nicely summed up my thoughts to certain parts of R3 + recent "improvements" (but without the hasty apology.)
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Originally posted by AuntDaisy View PostNow I understand exactly what you mean & can think of examples.
I sometimes think than anyone who likes all the music they here all of the time are very tolerent or more likely not very discerning or very musical.
The elderly lady in Steven Isserlis' tweet nicely summed up my thoughts to certain parts of R3 + recent "improvements" (but without the hasty apology.)
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Yes Kate Molleson is making a success of the Breakfast Show, and is the only presenter to rival Petroc, IMV.
Her approach of combining relatively lightweight music, with profound commentary is working for me. She is a major musical mind:: http://katemolleson.com/about/
Dissonance? Well as Tom Service pointed out the other day, some of Mozart's most popular works are full of it.
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Originally posted by Quarky View PostYes Kate Molleson is making a success of the Breakfast Show, and is the only presenter to rival Petroc, IMV.
Her approach of combining relatively lightweight music, with profound commentary is working for me. She is a major musical mind:: http://katemolleson.com/about/
Dissonance? Well as Tom Service pointed out the other day, some of Mozart's most popular works are full of it.
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Originally posted by Quarky View PostYes Kate Molleson is making a success of the Breakfast Show, and is the only presenter to rival Petroc, IMV.
Her approach of combining relatively lightweight music, with profound commentary is working for me. She is a major musical mind:: http://katemolleson.com/about/
Dissonance? Well as Tom Service pointed out the other day, some of Mozart's most popular works are full of it.
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