The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[salymap]

Indeed even Rumpole, who it is well known knows everything, learnt something from yesterday's Howells call........

What wasthe Howells call about, if I may attempt a shortcut ?.

[antongould]

What wasthe Howells call about, if I may attempt a shortcut ?.

....tempted not to tell you as you will then, like Rumpole, know everything! My stumbling explanation and Rumpole's incisive summing up are on the Essential Classics thread......

[salymap]

....tempted not to tell you as you will then, like Rumpole, know everything! My stumbling explanation and Rumpole's incisive summing up are on the Essential Classics thread......

Thanks anton, will make a sandwich to fortify myself and look for that then.

[Nick Armstrong]

....tempted not to tell you as you will then, like Rumpole, know everything! My stumbling explanation and Rumpole's incisive summing up are on the Essential Classics thread......

Anton, my cheque for PR services is in the post

[antongould]

Thanks anton, will make a sandwich to fortify myself and look for that then.

Please do I'm sure you know of hundreds of scores written in biro which will send SMP (and the vicar) into ecstasy ......I look forward to your call at 07.30 on Monday - don't forget the Sidcup pin the map for Dame ES

[vinteuil]

Anton, my cheque for PR services is in the post

... however I hope Caliban realises that my silence does not come cheap

[Nick Armstrong]

... however I hope Caliban realises that my silence does not come cheap

In the words of the corrupt police chief to his hired assassin in Beineix's "Diva"

"Si je plonge, tu plonges avec."

[vinteuil]

In the words of the corrupt police chief to his hired assassin in Beineix's "Diva"

"Si je plonge, tu plonges avec."

... a very fair comparison - me the hired assassin, you the corrupt police chief

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[salymap]

Thanks anton, will make a sandwich to fortify myself and look for that then.

At the moment all I can recall about Herbert Howells is that he wrote a work in memory of his young son Michael, who sadly died of polio, then a rampant disease. Doesn't seem to touch on that. And in my music library days we also had a composer called Hubert Hales, which confused me somewhat. Bestio

[Nick Armstrong]

... a very fair comparison - me the hired assassin, you the corrupt police chief

.

Precisely the mental picture I had in mind....

[teamsaint]

I think its rentokil we need, not assassins.

lasted about 25 seconds on Breakfast today. First, the exciting news that 2.36 PM Monday is the peak time of the week for uploading photos to facebook,(why can I remember that and not the important stuff?) and then those bloody wasps.
I used to quite like that piece.

[french frank]

On Facebook this am from someone not known to me ( but what do I know about who forumites are?):

"I must say that recently it has seemed that the same old lollipops are being trotted out so regularly they are becoming boring! Where has the challenge gone? The ability to hear something new each morning and grow my listening breadth?

And even then the lollipops aren't given life; Bach always on a Steinway - never an instrument he will have heard and composed for. Why not go the whole hog and play it on electric or a Moog?

Come on Radio3 the breakfast diet is becoming more cloying than ClassicFM!"

[teamsaint]

Why is radio 3 going out of its way to promote a commercial organisation like facebook , by giving it little plugs such as SMP did today?

the company I work for would LOVE free publicity of this kind.

Re FF's comments,I guess quite a lot of folk aren't too demanding of their music at 6.45 AM, but suggestions such as "Bach played on appropriate instruments" really wouldn't be too difficult to implement, would they?

[french frank]

I see from the R3 blog that they do seem to be planning to run through the gamut of genres with the Musical Map, currently (following Choral), we move to Baroque. However the blog is now closed for comments following a list of suggestions which amounted to plugs for local choral societies.

[JanH]

I think its rentokil we need, not assassins.

lasted about 25 seconds on Breakfast today. First, the exciting news that 2.36 PM Monday is the peak time of the week for uploading photos to facebook,(why can I remember that and not the important stuff?) and then those bloody wasps.
I used to quite like that piece.

We rarely listen to Radio 3 now, R4 has also changed for the worse, wheres the in depth sensible comment gone to?! I did try to listen to Radio 3 this morning but still impossible t listen without becoming cross and grumpy........ here's a classical music station well worth listening to: complete works, a very clear playlist available online and a tempting list of cds available.... and civilised presenters. It is splendid and all thanks to Caliban I now listen to it every day.


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