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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by antongould View PostFf were we not promised this chap a few weeks back and he never showed - in fact someone worse, or was it a toaster?, showed up. What has Ian Skelly done not to be given an extended run?
At least an alert producer corrected his pronunciation of scherzo by the time he made the back announcement. But even the music was no great shakes in terms of imagination: warhorses and not quite warhorses, excuses to plug, single movements ...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'm just listening now (quality control). I fail to understand why they would give this job to someone who gives a fine impression of knowing nothing about the music, to an extent that wasn't true back in the days when announcers were reading scripts prepared for them by production staff.
I don't expect every presenter (or producer) to necessarily know this, but I expect them to find out.Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....
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Originally posted by french frank View PostWe were indeed promised Radio Merseyside's drivetime presenter.
At least an alert producer corrected his pronunciation of scherzo by the time he made the back announcement
OG
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Originally posted by Old Grumpy View PostI would have thought a scouser would give quite an accurate rendition of shkairtzo!!
OGIt 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 PostIt was more like shirtso, so even shairtso wouldn't have been a whole lot better .
And that man comes on to tell me
How white my shirts can be
But he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke
The same cigarrettes as me
I can't get no, oh no, no, no
Hey hey hey, that's what I say
I can't get no satisfaction
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Northender
This morning we were informed that during the eeria [sic] in which Smetana composed 'Ma Vlast' he was a citizen of 'what was then Czechoslovakia'. Smetana died in 1884; Czechoslovakia was created after WW1. Somebody's grasp of history and geography seems to be a par with his ability to pronounce foreign names.
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Rupert P Matley
A few days ago, after the broadcast of the final movement of Mozart's Symphony No. 39 Ms Mohr-Pietsch asked if listening to that music in a restaurant would make one more likely to order a more expensive meal.
I switched off.
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And that in 1787 (was I mistaken? surely, I was?) that Don Giovanni was also first performed 'in Czechoslovakia'. This is what one might describe (kindly but sadly) as 'teenage ignorance'. I have more to say about today's programme (and will).
But first, I couldn't quite understand (or perhap my hearing is not what it was), was Ma Vlast being described as a 'paean' to the composer's homeland (yes, Czechoslovakia) ?? Or was it a different word that I wasn't quite catching?
Originally posted by Northender View PostThis morning we were informed that during the eeria [sic] in which Smetana composed 'Ma Vlast' he was a citizen of 'what was then Czechoslovakia'. Smetana died in 1884; Czechoslovakia was created after WW1. Somebody's grasp of history and geography seems to be a par with his ability to pronounce foreign names.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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I don't, after all, feel inclined to add anything about the weekend's programmes themselves. I merely speculate that there was a misunderstanding somewhere http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/liverpoo...00/8482748.stm
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1. It is not currently necessary to study classical music for a degree in music at Liverpool University
2. Mustang Sally is an R&B song composed in 1965
3. Local radio is important and very much appreciated by many peopleIt 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 don't, after all, feel inclined to add anything about the weekend's programmes themselves. I merely speculate that there was a misunderstanding somewhere http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/liverpoo...00/8482748.stm
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1. It is not currently necessary to study classical music for a degree in music at Liverpool University
2. Mustang Sally is an R&B song composed in 1965
3. Local radio is important and very much appreciated by many people
Mustang Sally, think you better slow your mustang down.
Mustang Sally, think you better slow your mustang down.
You been running all over the town now.
Oh! I guess I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
One of these early mornings, oh, you gonna be wiping your weeping eyes.
I bought you a brand new mustang 'bout nineteen sixty five
Now you come around signifying a woman, you don't wanna let me ride.
Mustang Sally, think you better slow your mustang down.
You been running all over the town now.
Oh! I guess I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostWell, I was wondering, seriously, what you thought of these two diabolically awful programmes.
*Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... yep, for me this Simon Hoban - "radio Merseyside drive-time presenter" with his 'matey, shirtsleeves style', as kernelbogey rightly puts it - is so far the lowest Radio 3 has got.
Here I really give up.
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Originally posted by vinteuil View PostI have nothing witty to contribute today -
"...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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