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  • Radio64
    Full Member
    • Jan 2014
    • 962

    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    Cornflakes are Dancing?
    ..not round are way (sic.)
    "Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."

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    • Bax-of-Delights
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 745

      Marooned, as I am, in bed with a touch of Man Flu I have R3 Breakfast on in the background just to provide some musical accompaniment to the snuffling, sweating and in-and-out dozing that becomes a little tedious. Just heard CB-H read out some email from a listener who asked for a specific piece of music and then proceeded to say that she would 'bear it in mind' (I.e. Ignore it) and play something completely different. I mean, what's the point?

      And there's an advert for Stockhausen - described as 'the most innovative of 20th century composers'. So innovative one presumes that R3 has all but ignored him for years.
      OK, back to the usual stuff - Balakirev's In the Steppes of Central Asia.
      Time to sink back into the pillows and doze off.
      O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 20569

        Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
        Just heard CB-H read out some email from a listener who asked for a specific piece of music and then proceeded to say that she would 'bear it in mind' (I.e. Ignore it) and play something completely different. I mean, what's the point?
        It means that she, the Presenter, is much more important than the listener, and that all this democratisation is fabrication and spin.

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        • EnemyoftheStoat
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 1131

          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
          It means that she, the Presenter, is much more important than the listener, and that all this democratisation is fabrication and spin.
          "We'll bear it in mind", "we must think about that".... Typical BBC-isms that mean they'll ignore your suggestion and hope you forget about it.

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            oh well, Stockhausen will be composer of the week, next week, and we get a complete Hymnen this Friday.

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            • antongould
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8774

              Originally posted by EnemyoftheStoat View Post
              "We'll bear it in mind", "we must think about that".... Typical BBC-isms that mean they'll ignore your suggestion and hope you forget about it.

              Oh ye of little faith - you don't have long to wait to put your cynicism to the test. On Christmas morning IIRC the Squire promised to play one of the suggest settings of some Cornish carol for Cloughie and the Cornish nation next Christmas ....

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              • Serial_Apologist
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 37560

                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                Oh ye of little faith - you don't have long to wait to put your cynicism to the test. On Christmas morning IIRC the Squire promised to play one of the suggest settings of some Cornish carol for Cloughie and the Cornish nation next Christmas ....
                If you're dead by then, does this affect your faith?

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                • antongould
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8774

                  Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                  If you're dead by then, does this affect your faith?
                  No even though I'll probably be in some sort of Cornish Hell my faith in the Squire will still be rock solid ......

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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    Originally posted by antongould View Post
                    No even though I'll probably be in some sort of Cornish Hell my faith in the Squire will still be rock solid ......
                    "Cornish Hell", perhaps - but all good people go to Devon.
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • ahinton
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 16122

                      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                      "Cornish Hell", perhaps - but all good people go to Devon.
                      Except perhaps those who reside in Hellston...

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12765

                        Originally posted by antongould View Post
                        Oh ye of little faith - you don't have long to wait to put your cynicism to the test. On Christmas morning IIRC the Squire promised to play one of the suggest settings of some Cornish carol for Cloughie and the Cornish nation next Christmas ....
                        ... blatant cornyism. I mean cronyism.


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                        • Eine Alpensinfonie
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20569

                          Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                          Except perhaps those who reside in Hellston...
                          . . .from whence cometh my ancestors. (Actually, it was Burras).

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                          • ahinton
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 16122

                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                            ... blatant cornyism. I mean cronyism.
                            Beats corbynism, some might say...

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                            • Eine Alpensinfonie
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 20569

                              Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                              Beats corbynism, some might say...
                              ... Careful, now...

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                              • peterthekeys
                                Full Member
                                • Aug 2014
                                • 246

                                Interesting listening experience this morning.

                                Got woken up at 7 as usual by my alarm radio.

                                Breakfast on 3. Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice. Used to like that piece (before R3 started playing it at every available opportunity.)

                                Switched over to Radio 4. Today. Chinese stock market problems, and how it's threatening a new global economic meltdown; Dame Sally Davies on how even minimal amounts of alcohol increase risks of cancer; Inverurie in Aberdeenshire washed away by the latest instalment of the monsoon.

                                Switched back to R3. Peer Gynt.

                                Switched off.

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