That said (what I just said in my previous post), today's playlist looks reasonable if not recherché but for a) the single movements and b) Rodeo - again again again…
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Because when something that one valued highly has been trashed, one feels bereaved - one doesn't just say "Oh alright then, I'll go and listen to something else."Originally posted by Honoured Guest View PostComment
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Maybe this latter is what, years ago, prompted Graham Johnson (I believe it was) to set up what looked set to become a kind of "composer comparatives" thing when he referred to "Coplandish"; you can imagine some of the potential follow-ups, can't you? - Rubbish, Payneful, Waltonic (with or without the gin), Matthewsiastic (there's two), Mawkish, Brittish, Albénian, Scottish, Bou-lazy, Duti-ful, Simpatico, Butterworthy, Petrashy, Nononsensical, Cartesian, Schuman(n)ic, Searly, Hessian, (I won't mention Marxist for fear of falling foul of the "no politics" bit), Menningitic, Hespostulatory and so on and there's Rihms and Rihms more of them, some of whom are on a Haydn to nuttin' and have therefore passed their Roussel-by date (sorry, Jayne!) and which I will sensibly spare you and everyone else (another thread for them? - please Godard no!...)...Originally posted by french frank View PostLast edited by ahinton; 22-04-15, 21:15.Comment
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As good an answer as any. It's worth fighting for.Originally posted by David-G View PostIt 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.Comment
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Once one starts being specific, disagreement begins. But for my money, a 3-hour programme, every morning and following on from a two and a half hour programme, is a bad start. This is why they have to think up all the separate 'features': Artist of the Week, Guest of the Week, Five Reasons to Love, Essential Classic of the Day, Quiz of the Day, Dish of the Day, Pet of the Day, Grumble of the Day, Gershwin before Twelve, and so on.Originally posted by ahinton View PostIt 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.Comment
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I cannot disagree - and well put, too - although surely "Gershwin before Twelve" would better be "Debussy before Twelve"? - we know from his compatriot and contemporary's famous remark about especially liking the bit at a quarter to eleven in the opening movement of La Mer that this would be more Satiesfactory, do we not? If left unchecked, the persuasions that you outline above could expand into Private Passion of the Day, Five Reasons to love Seedy Revues, Afternoon Tea on Three and the In Tune of the Week and, before you know it, there'll be Strictly Come Through the Night (might be censored, that), Masterchef d'orchestre, Musical Question Time, If Music be the Food and Drink of Love and the Great British Sewing Bee Minor Mass, with R4's Tweet of the Day being left to struggle to compete with the plethora of tweets of the day in all of those programmes, all of which might prompt one to question whether Threedom of (that kind of) speech should any longer be classified as a human right...Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
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