The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[BBMmk2]

Well i have certainly enjoiyed this 3Breakfast programme of late. Mainly because this programme has been playing a lot of brass band music!! :)

[Black Swan]

BBM, lucky you. I gave up this morning when I found out Clemency Burton-Hill was back tweeting, texting, etc.

[Northender]

Real quote? REALLY?? I'm hooked - see 'Playing with Trains' thread!!!

We could have Edward White's Puffin' Billy again! (I know it was played yesterday but that was on a Puffins theme...) New context, new meaning

No, merely a mischievous suggestion, or reasonable extrapolation, on my part, but it can only be a matter of time We've now had "Music To Build Things With Lego by", which is arguably dafter than my suggestion.

[antongould]

Should be Honegger's Pacific 231, but that's probably a teeny bit too dissonant and scary for Breakfast. Don't want to upset the 6 month year old listeners and associated budgies and dogs do we?

I've always been pretty sure of my place, now I'm also more or less certain of my age.

[teamsaint]

No, merely a mischievous suggestion, or reasonable extrapolation, on my part, but it can only be a matter of time We've now had "Music To Build Things With Lego by", which is arguably dafter than my suggestion.

When they do, Schelomo might be a good place to start.

[Old Grumpy]

When they do, something by Bloch would be a place to start.

Very good

If they play any Doors they might need a Handel or two!

[EdgeleyRob]

Anything in Duplo time.

[cloughie]

Very good

If they play any Doors they might need a Handel or two!

Nah - they'll just break on through!

[teamsaint]

I've always been pretty sure of my place, now I'm also more or less certain of my age.

good news.

you are going the opposite way to me, I seem to get less sure of things , as time passes.

[Anna]

Did anyone hear Breakfast, cannot remember if it was Thursday or Friday. Anyway, someone tweeted in as to why classical music audiiences were so po-faced and sober and why shouldn't they laugh and show emotion. This produced a slew of texts and tweets suggesting it was ok to dance in the aisles. C-BH went along with it and even asked Rob Cowan if he would dance in the aisles.
And then I thought, this is just so Classic FM. And it's awful to let the listeners direct the programme's direction.

[MickyD]

Indeed it is, Anna.

Amongst my gripes yesterday, I forgot to mention that I was also so disappointed to hear that the dreadful phone-ins were still part of the programme. I think this will be the last time I listen for a very long while, unless anyone here can persuade me that things have got better.

[clive heath]

The trouble is that too many of our fellow classical-music-lovers are gagging for their moment in the spotlight and the nerdy-needy presenters find their vox-pop credentials boosted by the responses to the idle chatter and has been said elsewhere they are mainly interested in their career prospects which can only be enhanced by phone-ins, tweets etc. However............some pieces of music suggested have been worthwhile, e.g. Sibelius' King Christian Suite today which could have been played with a credit to the suggestee without all the "hows the weather" nonsense.

[french frank]

The trouble is that too many of our fellow classical-music-lovers are gagging for their moment in the spotlight and the nerdy-needy presenters find their vox-pop credentials boosted by the responses to the idle chatter and has been said elsewhere they are mainly interested in their career prospects which can only be enhanced by phone-ins, tweets etc. However............some pieces of music suggested have been worthwhile, e.g. Sibelius' King Christian Suite today which could have been played with a credit to the suggestee without all the "hows the weather" nonsense.

And this instant an email has clonked into my inbox:

"You know the people who really get on my nerves in all this? The damn fools who pander to the BBC by ringing/writing & texting their responses to the presenters who are asking for requests/entries to competitions/opinions etc etc."

As Clive says, it's not that the choice of music is necessarily poor (Puffin' Billy excluded) but it's the populist 'Hello Mum' element, teenage behaviour which - in so many ways - is spreading to the adult population.

[Add: The thing is, we don't actually know there are a lot of such listeners. How many do they need a day - half a dozen? That could be the total, which isn't many out of last quarter's 704,000 per week, say]

[Northender]

The trouble is that too many of our fellow classical-music-lovers are gagging for their moment in the spotlight and the nerdy-needy presenters find their vox-pop credentials boosted by the responses to the idle chatter and has been said elsewhere they are mainly interested in their career prospects which can only be enhanced by phone-ins, tweets etc. However............some pieces of music suggested have been worthwhile, e.g. Sibelius' King Christian Suite today which could have been played with a credit to the suggestee without all the "hows the weather" nonsense.

Was the 'suggestee' by any chance a (former?) Forum member who posted as King Christian II - I believe he lives in Newton Abbot, where the said suggestee lives - or at least whence he called in.
Oh yes, and I've thought of a really fun thread for listeners to weave: what is your favourite beverage when listening to a certain work or performer. Me? I like a latte with my Lahti.

[mercia]

I like a latte with my Lahti.

Tauber with my Touba