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  • antongould
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8774

    From Yer Mobile this morning ......

    Introduced Elgar's Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands as Highlife and corrected herself .......then repeated the trick at the end of the piece ..... Seems she does indeed live the highlife ......

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    • muzzer
      Full Member
      • Nov 2013
      • 1190

      I'm trying to communicate with R3's producers in a language they understand. Apols to all in advance.

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      • Old Grumpy
        Full Member
        • Jan 2011
        • 3594

        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.
        Juxtaposition of different styles/genres doesn't worry me over much, as long as I like the music (i.e. its "OK" - point taken!), but that's just me. I can fully appreciate your position, FF.

        OG

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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8774

          Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
          Juxtaposition of different styles/genres doesn't worry me over much, as long as I like the music (i.e. its "OK" - point taken!), but that's just me. I can fully appreciate your position, FF.

          OG
          It's not just you OG but we are, I feel, men alone in these parts .......

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          • doversoul1
            Ex Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 7132

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
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            Some of us have been trying to defend the presenters by saying that it was the programme format that should be blames. I don’t know about others but I don’t think I’ll bother anymore. This sounds too genuine to be pretence. Maybe CBH is perfectly capable of being serious and silly. Good luck to her but how very sad for Radio3.

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26514

              Off-topic, but talking of silly schoolgirl (or schoolboy) tweets, "Wigmore Hall" seems to be using its Twitter account to run some sort of knocking-shop:



              "...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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              • Wallace

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                Off-topic, but talking of silly schoolgirl (or schoolboy) tweets, "Wigmore Hall" seems to be using its Twitter account to run some sort of knocking-shop:



                Caliban: If you would care to forward the information, Matt Leinart can be contacted through his booking agency on US phone number 800.966.1380. However with a fee between $5,000 and $10,000 he might outside the duty tweeter's price range.

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26514

                  Originally posted by Wallace View Post
                  Caliban: If you would care to forward the information, Matt Leinart can be contacted through his booking agency on US phone number 800.966.1380. However with a fee between $5,000 and $10,000 he might outside the duty tweeter's price range.


                  I was not expecting that reply !

                  Good knowledge / sleuthing, Wallace!!
                  "...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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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37559

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                    I was not expecting that reply !

                    Good knowledge / sleuthing, Wallace!!
                    Every young male I see is going for the bearded look right now. Are they anticipating Britain becoming an Islamic state?

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26514

                      Made the mistake of switching on R3 before 9am, and (but for deft work with the remote) nearly heard Breakfast plugging Kiri te Kanawa plugging Luciano Pavarotti - how very original, how very cutting edge...

                      "...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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                      • Don Petter

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        Made the mistake of switching on R3 before 9am, and (but for deft work with the remote) nearly heard Breakfast plugging Kiri te Kanawa plugging Luciano Pavarotti - how very original, how very cutting edge...

                        I rather wish he had been plugged years ago.

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                        • Richard Tarleton

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          Made the mistake of switching on R3 before 9am, and (but for deft work with the remote) nearly heard Breakfast plugging Kiri te Kanawa plugging Luciano Pavarotti - how very original, how very cutting edge...

                          Does that mean you missed the Slavonic Dance, Cali?

                          R3 was on here too, as our painter set to work on the windows.

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26514

                            Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                            Does that mean you missed the Slavonic Dance, Cali?
                            How can they serve up this tired old stuff with a smile?

                            The Kiri-Pav thing sounded to me like Universal desperately trying to shift a bit more of their old 80s/90s Decca catalogue to gullible Breakfasters.
                            "...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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                            • Don Petter

                              Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                              R3 was on here too, as our painter set to work on the windows.
                              Are you going for the stained glass effect?

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                              • Eine Alpensinfonie
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 20569

                                c




                                The last straw, perhaps? Can it stoop any lower?

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