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  • Black Swan

    Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
    I'm sorry, Caliban, but imposing this type of revelation on forumites is likely to cause us serious mental health problems. PLEASE - no more.
    The only intoxication likely to come from R3 Breakfast and CBH and such tweets will be that brought on by Forum Members being driven to drink by such twaddle.

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    • Stanfordian
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 9308

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      ... and the ones she perpetrates. This came as close as anything ever has to making me regurgitate my eponymous breakfast:





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      It's pathetic!

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30206

        Um, Christian Pluhar?

        Incidentally, not the same culprit, but I heard "Das Märchen von der schönen Melusine" yesterday - The March of Fair Melussyne (rhymes with 'mine'). And why risk a translation if you don't know what it means?

        Note also that Radio 3 retweeted the schoolgirlish silliness below
        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        ... and the ones she perpetrates. This came as close as anything ever has to making me regurgitate my eponymous breakfast:





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        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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        • Richard Tarleton

          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          Um, Christian Pluhar?
          Well she was intoxicated

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by Black Swan View Post
            The only intoxication likely to come from R3 Breakfast and CBH and such tweets will be that brought on by Forum Members being driven to drink by such twaddle.
            I'm afraid that R3 has brought me so far that I have my drink driven to me these days.

            (About the only thing for which I'm grateful to them.)
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • muzzer
              Full Member
              • Nov 2013
              • 1190

              I'd like to say that the oxygen of publicity will only encourage This Sort Of Thing. But I fear no encouragement is needed. What is to be done, hm?

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30206

                Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                Well she was intoxicated
                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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                • Old Grumpy
                  Full Member
                  • Jan 2011
                  • 3594

                  Originally posted by muzzer View Post
                  What is to be done, hm?
                  Keep away from Twitter!
                  OG

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                  • ahinton
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 16122

                    Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
                    Keep away from Twitter!
                    OG
                    Why keep away from Twitter just because of this? (not that I have a Twitter account myself); why not just give CBH a wide berth?

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                    • Old Grumpy
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2011
                      • 3594

                      Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                      Why keep away from Twitter just because of this? (not that I have a Twitter account myself); why not just give CBH a wide berth?
                      Or keep away from both.

                      I still like listening to Breakfast on my morning drive to work. I could do without the inane tweetery and the wedding music box, however. The music's OK, it's all the details that go with it. I liked today's Steve Reich piece - though could have done with all 18 minutes, perhaps.

                      OG

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                      • antongould
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8774

                        Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
                        Or keep away from both.

                        I still like listening to Breakfast on my morning drive to work. I could do without the inane tweetery and the wedding music box, however. The music's OK, it's all the details that go with it. I liked today's Steve Reich piece - though could have done with all 18 minutes, perhaps.

                        OG

                        My thoughts more or less entirely OG and like you I would have appreciated all of the Reich piece. But would it have been played at all without the listener request?

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30206

                          Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
                          I still like listening to Breakfast on my morning drive to work. I could do without the inane tweetery and the wedding music box, however. The music's OK, it's all the details that go with it.
                          Mmmmm …… The music may be 'OK' if your mind is otherwise engaged, but apart from the surrounding detrital deposits I find it mentally unsettling to have 5 minutes of a Victoria motet, followed by 5 minutes of Duke Ellington's Don't get around much any more, followed by 5 minutes of Nielsen's prelude to Saul og David.

                          I find that quite painful and would rather opt out of that altogether. But that's just me - and that particular sequence.
                          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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                          • cloughie
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2011
                            • 22110

                            Originally posted by french frank View Post
                            Mmmmm …… The music may be 'OK' if your mind is otherwise engaged, but apart from the surrounding detrital deposits I find it mentally unsettling to have 5 minutes of a Victoria motet, followed by 5 minutes of Duke Ellington's Don't get around much any more, followed by 5 minutes of Nielsen's prelude to Saul og David.

                            I find that quite painful and would rather opt out of that altogether. But that's just me - and that particular sequence.
                            On a pleasant summer morning nothing would better than Schubert 5 played in full after the 8.00 news.

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                            • french frank
                              Administrator/Moderator
                              • Feb 2007
                              • 30206

                              Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                              On a pleasant summer morning nothing would better than Schubert 5 played in full after the 8.00 news.
                              I can't tell you how reassuring that is: I am not alone.

                              There seems to be something logically faulty about saying that people aren't listening for long enough in the morning to hear a whole work - so we'll play a part of it … Either way, everyone just hears part of it, whether they have time to listen or not
                              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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                              • muzzer
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2013
                                • 1190

                                #prayforfranzsfifthafter8

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