The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[salymap]

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.

[french frank]

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.

[antongould]

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?

[teamsaint]

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 !

[Don Petter]

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'!

[Bax-of-Delights]

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?

http://lietofinelondon.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/the-art-of-cultural-appeasement-the-bbcs-maestro-at-the-opera/

[french frank]

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.

[Bax-of-Delights]

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...

[Ferretfancy]

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.

[Nick Armstrong]

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

[Bax-of-Delights]

...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.

[Suffolkcoastal]

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???

[Ferretfancy]

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.

[Suffolkcoastal]

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

[mercia]

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01gvtk7

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