The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

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  • Black Swan

    Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
    ...not to mention a piece I'd never heard before, and which I found rather haunting: Spurn Point Elegy by Anthony Hedges, which PT introduced with his own evocative (and apparently unscripted) description of Spurn Point. Generally an enjoyably diverse choice of music today, although I for one could have done without the excerpt from Will Todd's Mass in Blue, which seems to be gaining purchase amongst choral societies because they misguidedly believe that it makes them appear cool.
    I totally agree not a bad program but also agree I am not dying to hear more of the Mass in Blue.

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    • Northender

      Artiste de la semaine: M. Rieu?
      Ma réponse ' Ah, mon Dieu'!

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      • teamsaint
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 25190

        Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
        You may come to rieu the day you suggested this, ER.


        very sophisticated.
        Not a titter for my rieu based pun...
        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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        • Charlie

          I thought that as a Friend of Radio 3, I ought to enter into the The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place, although my partner and I have very different opinions about the Breakfast 'Show'. Charlie prefers 'Through the Night', so when Petroc, or Sara, or somebody else at the weekend introduces themselves, I turn down the volume. On weekdays, we breakfast early, so by half past six in the morning, breakfast is long over, and there is much else to do. Radio 3 obviously wants listeners, there is no point to R3 without listeners, but how is it going to get them?

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26514

            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
            Not a titter for my rieu based pun...
            Perhaps everyone was too helpless with laughter to be able to type?
            "...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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            • teamsaint
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 25190

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Perhaps everyone was too helpless with laughter to be able to type?
              well I certainly was....

              or did you just remove the appreciate posts in a fit of moderator jealousy........ it has happened before...
              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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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26514

                Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                well I certainly was....

                or did you just remove the appreciate posts in a fit of moderator jealousy........ it has happened before...
                Not at my hand! Can hardly believe it of my fellows...
                "...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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                • teamsaint
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 25190

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Not at my hand! Can hardly believe it of my fellows...
                  there are more of them? that explains much.
                  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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                  • Bax-of-Delights
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 745

                    The reported tweets which seem to be more employed by certain of the Breakfast presenters - Clemency Burton Hill amongst them - reached a new low today with her apparent recommendation of a tweet from one buffoon who had just listened to one of the movements from Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.

                    "A perfect accompaniment to the sunshine and bacon rolls" she merrily reported.

                    On An Overgrown Path (a website I thoroughly recommend) makes this pithy comment about such social media as Twitter (quoting a Zen master):
                    Think three times before speaking and then choose to speak only in one out of ten of those instances.

                    Would that the burbling and babbling twitterati - and the lovers thereof on R3 - heeded this advice.
                    O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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                    • Northender

                      CB-H also announced a DOUBLE WHAMMY of piano pieces and a FANTASTIC upcoming concert. I wonder if her Dad was listening, and if so what he made of it all.

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                      • Thropplenoggin
                        Full Member
                        • Mar 2013
                        • 1587

                        Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                        The reported tweets which seem to be more employed by certain of the Breakfast presenters - Clemency Burton Hill amongst them - reached a new low today with her apparent recommendation of a tweet from one buffoon who had just listened to one of the movements from Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.

                        "A perfect accompaniment to the sunshine and bacon rolls" she merrily reported.
                        Later, the phone-in chap was explaining his request - Biber's Rosary Sonatas - and, of course, was invited to explain why he found them so moving. He had clearly chosen 'The Scourging of the Pillar' episode but had been encouraged to choose a less "gloomy" movement. (And on a Sunday, too!) Ergo, the listener's requests are now chosen by the presenters. Utterly banal.

                        Ah, Clemency! Ah, humanity!
                        It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius

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                        • cloughie
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2011
                          • 22110

                          Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View Post
                          Later, the phone-in chap was explaining his request - Biber's Rosary Sonatas - and, of course, was invited to explain why he found them so moving. He had clearly chosen 'The Scourging of the Pillar' episode but had been encouraged to choose a less "gloomy" movement. (And on a Sunday, too!) Ergo, the listener's requests are now chosen by the presenters. Utterly banal.

                          Ah, Clemency! Ah, humanity!
                          I think now there is a good case for the presenters being chosen by the listeners.

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                          • Bax-of-Delights
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 745

                            The superlatives also proliferate in the gruesome adverts for upcoming concerts, voiced by the same woman I think as does the Masterchef voice-over (the one that sounds as if she has just eaten a large cup-cake). Singers are GLITTERING, painists are PHENOMENAL etc etc etc

                            If I knew how to insert a vomit smiley it would be right here:
                            O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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                            • Frances_iom
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 2411

                              Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                              The superlatives also proliferate in the gruesome adverts for upcoming concerts,...:
                              I find I now seldom listem to R3 except for the evening concert + a couple of other regular slots - however even the concert is now marred by highly intrusive adverts that usually delay the start - don't get me on about the wreck of many lunch time 'concerts' (aka patchworks of some recordings we found lying around) introduced by that arch wielder of unthinking superlatives + instant turn off

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                                The superlatives also proliferate in the gruesome adverts for upcoming concerts, voiced by the same woman I think as does the Masterchef voice-over (the one that sounds as if she has just eaten a large cup-cake). Singers are GLITTERING, painists are PHENOMENAL etc etc etc

                                If I knew how to insert a vomit smiley it would be right here:

                                At your service, Delightful one!
                                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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