Originally posted by Old Grumpy
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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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And I’m not sure that the history of the Humber bridge is of great interest to folks from the southern regions.
Tom Service's input on the morning in question was limited to some rather disjointed waffling about his forbear and the recitation of the poem, the equivalent in disturbance terms(if one is not a TS fan) of the playing of a short bit of noisy music - hardly the same as presenting the whole programme.
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Does anyone else find the Breakfast music levels awfully low sometimes? I set the volume level so that Petroc's voice is at a good listening level but when the music itself comes in, sometimes the quiet parts are barely audible. Maybe the engineers think it's better that way, rather than being too loud first thing in the morning? The Jerome Moross piece just now was a case in point!
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Originally posted by seabright View PostDoes anyone else find the Breakfast music levels awfully low sometimes? I set the volume level so that Petroc's voice is at a good listening level but when the music itself comes in, sometimes the quiet parts are barely audible. Maybe the engineers think it's better that way, rather than being too loud first thing in the morning? The Jerome Moross piece just now was a case in point!
Perhaps, as a RT reader suggested some time ago re the problems of so-called background music obliterating the programme subject matter on TV, the folks involved need to listen to the output on the kind of set-up that the public is likely to be using, rather than their studio one. I forget the ins and outs but there was an explanation of how what sounds OK to the producers gets out of balance at the receiving end and thus annoys the public.
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I see, as part of the BBC's "gay" season we are to have a "gay" composer feature each day. I am pretty certain that I care not two hoots if Szymanowski was a gay man nor that I needed to know this before listening to his Concert Overture nor that it changes my opinion of his music.
Just why?O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostI see, as part of the BBC's "gay" season we are to have a "gay" composer feature each day. I am pretty certain that I care not two hoots if Szymanowski was a gay man nor that I needed to know this before listening to his Concert Overture nor that it changes my opinion of his music.
Just why?
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostI see, as part of the BBC's "gay" season we are to have a "gay" composer feature each day. I am pretty certain that I care not two hoots if Szymanowski was a gay man nor that I needed to know this before listening to his Concert Overture nor that it changes my opinion of his music.
Just why?Money can't buy you happiness............but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery - Spike Milligan
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Originally posted by alycidon View PostBecause the BBC is pushing the gay agenda like mad, and it's getting extremely tedious.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostI see, as part of the BBC's "gay" season we are to have a "gay" composer feature each day. I am pretty certain that I care not two hoots if Szymanowski was a gay man nor that I needed to know this before listening to his Concert Overture nor that it changes my opinion of his music.
Just why?
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostOr - it is commemorating the half-century of the partial decriminalization of homosexuality in a series of programmes on television and radio that many people (myself included) have found interesting and moving. Granted, the Breakfast "theme" is simplistic and naff - but what else have we been led to expect from this programme?
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostSzymanowski - or perhaps you are implying that Szymanowski was aping R.Strauss? It certainly sounds Straussian!Last edited by ahinton; 01-09-17, 11:18.
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostThese recurring themes are so tiresome. I agree a composer's sexual preference means nothing to me I just want to hear the music. Soon it will be something else to trumpet. ‘Thought the Night’ is the sort of programming I now enjoy.
I agree. I don't like Tchaikovsky's, Britten's, or Tippett's music any more, or less, on account of their personal preferences.
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