The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Old Grumpy]

Not a Breakfast listener, normally; too early for me!. However I did hear at around 8.45 this morning a piece called Orchestral Groupies with Shaved Heads. I found out the title after I had listened to and enjoyed immensely a humorous piece of writing with a musical theme. Maybe the shaved head wasn't so funny, but it was a sparkling short story all the same.

PS I see there are 6 more pieces in this series. I must listen some more.

, me too. The Stravinsky one nearly had me off the road...

... very moving.

OG

[vinteuil]

That avatar must be a picture of you age 10 then...

... now hanging in the library, I presume.

OG

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o, I wish...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Egidio_Mel%C3%A9ndez#/media/File:Self-portrait_Holding_an_Academic_Study_by_Luis_Mel%C3%A9ndez.jpg

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Egidio_Mel%C3%A9ndez

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[muzzer]

Georgia Mann this sticky morning, a cool voice in a febrile world. Marvellous.

[Nick Armstrong]

Five mornings of Skelly next week (if Radio Times is to be believed)....

[antongould]

Five mornings of Skelly next week (if Radio Times is to be believed)....

We are saved IMVVHO .....

[Stanfordian]

Five mornings of Skelly next week (if Radio Times is to be believed)....

Yee-Haa!

[DaisyDog]

Gorgia in the morning? No thank you. Her voice is too dark for me and hard to follow. And if she's such a hot-shot radio producer/presenter she should know the difference between Poulenc and Dvorak, which this morning she didn't. Back of the class Miss Mann-Smith.

[Zucchini]

... she should know the difference between Poulenc and Dvorak, which this morning she didn't.

What does that mean?

[french frank]

What does that mean?

I wondered that. Wasn't it Petroc this morning, GM-S yesterday?

[DaisyDog]

Yes indeed, the Cornishman is back. The Georgia Mann was on the previous day, filling in I expect. She misattributed a piece by Poulenc to Dvorak. Probably by misreading the CD notes and not listening. Inexcusable for such an allegedly hotshot producer/presenter.

[french frank]

Yes indeed, the Cornishman is back. The Georgia Mann was on the previous day, filling in I expect. She misattributed a piece by Poulenc to Dvorak. Probably by misreading the CD notes and not listening. Inexcusable for such an allegedly hotshot producer/presenter.

Daisy - I think you must have dropped off for half an hour. She attributed the piece by Poulenc (Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone) to Poulenc, before and after, and similarly a bit later announced and back announced the Dvořák (Serenade in D minor for wind instruments, Op 44) as being by Dvořák.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08v8tm1

[teamsaint]

Daisy - I think you must have dropped off for half an hour. She attributed the piece by Poulenc (Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone) to Poulenc, before and after, and similarly a bit later announced and back announced the Dvořák (Serenade in D minor for wind instruments, Op 44) as being by Dvořák.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08v8tm1

She'll never pick up and MBE for services to broadcasting and being a jolly nice chap by getting everything right........

[Pulcinella]

She'll never pick up and MBE for services to broadcasting and being a jolly nice chap by getting everything right........

I think she got a bit confused in what she said after the Stravinsky violin concerto extract (Hilary Hahn as soloist), though. It was introduced correctly as the last movement, but later she called it Stravinsky's Capriccio (the title of that movement, admittedly, but also that of an entirely different piece). An excusable slip, but a slightly unfortunate one. But perhaps I dropped off or misheard too.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think she got a bit confused in what she said after the Stravinsky violin concerto extract (Hilary Hahn as soloist), though. It was introduced correctly as the last movement, but later she called it Stravinsky's Capriccio (the title of that movement, admittedly, but also that of an entirely different piece). An excusable slip, but a slightly unfortunate one. But perhaps I dropped off or misheard too.

Well - not really; if it had been the Finale of a Mozart Horn Concerto that she'd then referred to as "Mozart's Rondo", we wouldn't really call it "an excusable slip" would we?

[Pulcinella]

Well - not really; if it had been the Finale of a Mozart Horn Concerto that she'd then referred to as "Mozart's Rondo", we wouldn't really call it "an excusable slip" would we?

True.
I should perhaps have said understandable not excusable: excusable in the sense that I could see how it happened.
(I enjoyed the extract very much too, not having heard that recording before, so maybe that put me in a good and forgiving mood. )