The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[french frank]

Official BBC transcript ... ???

Everything in quotes is a direct quote; and in fact I forgot to put quotes round No 4, which was also a direct quote. Indirect quotes were faithfully represented. The clip lasts 1'16" and is 1.2MB. I can send it, if you like?

[jean]

3. "I have to say I'm very glad that you think that because, as I said at the time, I'm a big fan of this song...'

She wouldn't be if she had to hear it from loudspeakers every time she made the crossing to Birkenhead.

It's a source of considerable embarrassment to me every time I have guests I want to impress.

I suspect I am going to have to undergo an arrangement of it this coming Friday:

Liverpool's impressive back catalogue of hits will take centre stage at this year's Liverpool International Music Festival .

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will be opening LIMF Summer Jam on Friday July 22 with a performance entitled Music City: Reimagined.

Showcasing many of the defining songs that came from the city of Liverpool and impacted the world, the fully orchestral set will feature music from John Lennon to Frankie Goes to Hollywood to Cilla Black and everything in between.

[cloughie]

She wouldn't be if she had to hear it from loudspeakers every time she made the crossing to Birkenhead.

It's a source of considerable embarrassment to me every time I have guests I want to impress.

I suspect I am going to have to undergo an arrangement of it this coming Friday:

Liverpool's impressive back catalogue of hits will take centre stage at this year's Liverpool International Music Festival .

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will be opening LIMF Summer Jam on Friday July 22 with a performance entitled Music City: Reimagined.

Showcasing many of the defining songs that came from the city of Liverpool and impacted the world, the fully orchestral set will feature music from John Lennon to Frankie Goes to Hollywood to Cilla Black and everything in between.

I think Gerry's original will sound better, the RLPO is a fine orchestra but when you add a pop song and some bash bash drums it does them no favours. Why do they do it? I never thought Elvis and the RPO were a good match. Genre bending does not really work.

[jean]

Why do they do it?

People seem to like it, that's why! I get the impression that Vasily rather enjoys this sort of thing.

The audience in Sefton Park on Friday will contain a lot of people who'd never normally go to an orchestral concert. And I wouldn't normally go to a concert like this, but it's in my local park, and it's free, so I'll be there.

[antongould]

Everything in quotes is a direct quote; and in fact I forgot to put quotes round No 4, which was also a direct quote. Indirect quotes were faithfully represented. The clip lasts 1'16" and is 1.2MB. I can send it, if you like?

No, no I believe you .....I am too busy recording her "Sounds of yer garden ...." this morning which, we are promised, is awash with chickens ..... !!!!!

[Pulcinella]

No, no I believe you .....I am too busy recording her "Sounds of yer garden ...." this morning which, we are promised, is awash with chickens ..... !!!!!

Well, there aint nobody here but us chickens.

[Lawrence]

Oh no, those clucking chickens again this morning!

[Serial_Apologist]

The best of cluck?

[mozart79]

to much talk not enough music also the pieces that are played are to short. :(

[alycidon]

to much talk not enough music also the pieces that are played are to short. :(

You seem to have taken a long time to work that one out, Mozart. For that reason I have given up on breakfast-time listening after over sixty years of doing so. It's just CDs or YouTube now.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

to much talk not enough music also the pieces that are played are to short. :(

That's the real problem, plus the fact that so many of the works performed are mere extracts.

[ahinton]

That's the real problem, plus the fact that so many of the works performed are mere extracts.

Yes, I somehow suspect that, even were they to programme 4'33", they'd just do a potted highlights thereof inorder to enable the presenter to fill up the remainder of the time with idle chatter about nothing of consequence, let alone relevance...

[DaisyDog]

Avian vexations. Wrong sort of tweets...

Am I alone in being confused and somewhat vexed at the 8:15 Sunday morning bird song sequences? For 15 minutes what I mostly hear is silence. The chosen species of bird has been recorded at such a low level that I have to crank up my radio volume to maximum to hear anything at all, and then it is mostly traffic and extraneous background noises. Then that segues into several random music selections, but now at an unbearably loud volume before returning to more low level bird song. God help any poor soul that has just turned on their radio and adjusted the volume upwards during the bird song. Surely these recordings could have been edited to give better sound levels and balance? Overall it is just not a very interesting or well thought through series. And it is far too long.

[Bryn]

Am I alone in being confused and somewhat vexed at the 8:15 Sunday morning bird song sequences. For 15 minutes what I mostly hear is silence. The chosen species bird has been recorded at such a low level that I have to crank up my radio volume to maximum to hear anything at all, and then it is mostly traffic and extraneous background noises. Then that segues into several random music selections, but now at an unbearably loud volume before returning to more low level bird song. God help any poor soul that has just turned on their radio and adjusted the volume upwards during the bird song. Surely these recordings could have been edited giving better sound levels and balance? Overall it is just not a very interesting or well thought through series. And it is far too long.

The Yellowhammer recording actually ran for just 2'48", 1' 09" and 48" and the sound was just fine via the iPlayer HD Sound stream. I reckon Chris Watson made a pretty good fist of capturing the song.

[Serial_Apologist]

The Yellowhammer recording actually ran for just 2'48", 1' 09" and 48" and the sound was just fine via the iPlayer HD Sound stream. I reckon Chris Watson made a pretty good fist of capturing the song.

Indeed - my reckoning is that he must have put out a little bit of bread and no cheese to get it!.