The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by doversoul View PostSorry to keep on about it but has there been a thorough review of these campaigns, and a follow-up survey on how many (or at least a trend) new listeners, i.e., those who came to Radio3 to hear Breakfast, have go on to listen to the rest of R3? Or does it not matter as long as more people join in Breakfast?
However, they do seem to have a new metric for gauging 'Impact' [sic] - the number of people who contact R3 by email, tweet, text, Facebook, letter(?) which is MUCH greater than it was 20 years ago ... apparently
But Essential Classics is now (officially) Radio 3's 'flagship' morning programme (it even had its own blog) - the first mid morning programme to have been extended to 3 hours long, and starting at 9am which is when R3's audience hits a peak. Breakfast is now the second team.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 kernelbogey View PostSpare steering wheel, of course!
I think we have a "motoring photographs " sub forum somewhere, and I think you should do the decent thing......!!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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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostNow I am both confused...and amused.!!
I think we have a "motoring photographs " sub forum somewhere, and I think you should do the decent thing......!!
(Seltsamenaltenklapprigenanhängselnwenigtretauto Mark IV?)
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The R3 Facebook page has a request for an apology from "Clemmy" for pronouncing "The Corydon Singers" as The CROYDON Singers.
(Talking of Croydon...I well remember the Croydon Symphony Orchestra performing under the baton of Arthur Davison back in the 60's. I see his son now is musical director. I bumped into Arthur Davison's daughter by chance last year. She is doing musical turns on cruise ships.)O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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Originally posted by french frank View PostHowever, they do seem to have a new metric for gauging 'Impact' [sic] - the number of people who contact R3 by email, tweet, text, Facebook, letter(?) which is MUCH greater than it was 20 years ago ... apparently
But Essential Classics is now (officially) Radio 3's 'flagship' morning programme (it even had its own blog) - the first mid morning programme to have been extended to 3 hours long, and starting at 9am which is when R3's audience hits a peak. Breakfast is now the second team.
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Does it (being Radio 3's 'flagship' morning programme) have any practical implications? Is Breakfast going to be presented by less high profile presenters who are more conveniently located, regardless of their musical knowledge or presentation styles? And is Essential Classics going to be playing more ‘entry’ kind of music with more interactive elements? Or do you think it has occurred to them that Breakfast as it has become may not be such a very good idea ater all?
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostThe R3 Facebook page has a request for an apology from "Clemmy" for pronouncing "The Corydon Singers" as The CROYDON Singers.
(Talking of Croydon...I well remember the Croydon Symphony Orchestra performing under the baton of Arthur Davison back in the 60's. I see his son now is musical director. I bumped into Arthur Davison's daughter by chance last year. She is doing musical turns on cruise ships.)
I could never decide if this was due to enthusiasm or a means of keeping the orchestera on its toes
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Originally posted by mercia View Postif memory serves I think they've had that problem since their inception along with typoes in newspapers.
Some of them read out on R4 comedy shows do sound contrived sometimes.
OG
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An example this morning of what I (me personally ) find deeply cynical about this programme which is specially for 'people with little knowledge of classical music' is how little they do to increase that knowledge. Joyce di Donato sings 'Voi che sapete' from The Marriage of Figaro. Before and after the piece we're told that Joyce di Donato will be in the In Tune studio tonight ("sprinkling her stardust "). But surely, two sentences (not a lecture) of context for those who don't know the opera wouldn't have been out of place? Otherwise, we have to suppose the piece was only chosen as a trail to JdiD's appearance on BBC Radio 3's In Tune, and that as a trail to this year's BBC Proms.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 PostAn example this morning of what I (me personally ) find deeply cynical about this programme which is specially for 'people with little knowledge of classical music' is how little they do to increase that knowledge. Joyce di Donato sings 'Voi che sapete' from The Marriage of Figaro. Before and after the piece we're told that Joyce di Donato will be in the In Tune studio tonight ("sprinkling her stardust "). But surely, two sentences (not a lecture) of context for those who don't know the opera wouldn't have been out of place? Otherwise, we have to suppose the piece was only chosen as a trail to JdiD's appearance on BBC Radio 3's In Tune, and that as a trail to this year's BBC Proms.
It's Just another example of the BBC's obsession with celebrities at the expense of informing the listener. How long will it be before Aled Jones and Alan Titchmarsh are presenting on Radio 3?
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostIt's Just another example of the BBC's obsession with celebrities at the expense of informing the listener. How long will it be before Aled Jones and Alan Titchmarsh are presenting on Radio 3?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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