Many thanks John. Lovely indeed.
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At an Advent service tonight, in the gather afterwards, several commented on the Sacred River, BUT....then, totally unprompted, they almost to a man / woman / person set off on a real blistering of anything much on R3 before 7.30 p.m.- a strategy they said was a major change for them in the last few years.
It had even driven one woman to say she had bought a iPad + ear pieces etc and discovered online classical globally, etc etc, and iPlayer, and it meant she rarely listened to R3 AT ALL, any more. She had not up to that point owned any such device!!
Why, I asked them, and literally ALL those in the conversation - about 6 of us - said with one voice 'presenters.', which in turn precipitated a LONG discusison of different pains and woes, chiefest among which was .....guess?.................
......................KD. 100%:steam from all, nem con. And then to my huge surprise, they got stuck into T.Service and Ian Skelley.
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Presenters .... I suggest the BBC get rid of Suzy Klein on Essential Classics and replace her with David Mellor. His Sunday evening 'show' on CFM is often a delightful and informative experience. He knows at least as much about music as she does - probably more - and he manages to educate his listeners without talking down to, or bullying, them. Next Sunday, we're promised, he'll play something from Hamish McCunn's opera 'Jeannie Dean', so he can hardly be accused of relying exclusively on popular favourites. I didn't realize (or had forgotten), incidentally, that Hamish McCunn conducted the first performance of 'Tristan' in English.
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International Women's Day this week highlighted a big change in Sunday Morning:
2017 (J Swain) 13 pieces in all, 7 by women composers:
Ruth Crawford Seeger (2 mins)
Cecilia McDowell (3 mins)
Dobrinka Tabakova (5 mins)
Barbara Strozzi (9 mins?)
Dame Ethel Smyth (9 mins)
Judith Weir (7 mins)
Sofia Gubaidulina (30 mins?)
2018 (S Walker) 23 works in all, 3 by women (one of them a folk/roots musician):
Angela Meyer/Oka Vanga (3 mins)
Hildegard of Bingen (3 mins)
Roxanna Panufnik (7 mins)
But several 'women performers' …
Not an improvement?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostInternational Women's Day this week highlighted a big change in Sunday Morning:
2017 (J Swain) 13 pieces in all, 7 by women composers:
Ruth Crawford Seeger (2 mins)
Cecilia McDowell (3 mins)
Dobrinka Tabakova (5 mins)
Barbara Strozzi (9 mins?)
Dame Ethel Smyth (9 mins)
Judith Weir (7 mins)
Sofia Gubaidulina (30 mins?)
2018 (S Walker) 23 works in all, 3 by women (one of them a folk/roots musician):
Angela Meyer/Oka Vanga (3 mins)
Hildegard of Bingen (3 mins)
Roxanna Panufnik (7 mins)
But several 'women performers' …
Not an improvement?
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Originally posted by Opinionated Knowall View PostOr compare a similar undertaking on 30 September 1973 http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules...09-30#at-13.50It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostSunday Morning does appear to have been " popularised ". Yesterday morning SW announced some music by Gluck and surprise surprise it was the Dance of the Blessed Spirits - it is a Classic FOM programme without the adverts.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by LMcD View PostPresenters .... I suggest the BBC get rid of Suzy Klein on Essential Classics and replace her with David Mellor. His Sunday evening 'show' on CFM is often a delightful and informative experience. He knows at least as much about music as she does - probably more - and he manages to educate his listeners without talking down to, or bullying, them. Next Sunday, we're promised, he'll play something from Hamish McCunn's opera 'Jeannie Dean', so he can hardly be accused of relying exclusively on popular favourites. I didn't realize (or had forgotten), incidentally, that Hamish McCunn conducted the first performance of 'Tristan' in English.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostMaybe if David Mellor is the answer then the wrong question has been asked. It needs a change of format not presenter.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostQuite agree. It's a mess of a programme, not fair on presenters.
Sarah Walker does a fine job of relating to and communicating with her listeners in the context of presenting a music programme.
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Originally posted by Padraig View PostBut you're going to hang them out to dry anyway, f f,
Originally posted by Padraig View PostSarah Walker does a fine job of relating to and communicating with her listeners in the context of presenting a music programme.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostDon't know what you're referring to.
Same point as Essential Classics - a pretty undistinguished playlist. There's more to classical music than that.No idea who chooses the music
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