End in sight for Classical Collection?

[Norfolk Born]

nice one on breakfast this morning. Text in to give a name to Beethoven op 70 no 2, the trio that isn't The Ghost

wasn't this the one they got into a bit of a muddle over the other day?

Radio 3 sending itself up?

Was such a spirited performance?

[Word]

nice one on breakfast this morning. Text in to give a name to Beethoven op 70 no 2, the trio that isn't The Ghost

wasn't this the one they got into a bit of a muddle over the other day?

Radio 3 sending itself up?

It's good to see that the presenters have a sense of humour even if that's not always the case with their listeners.

[Panjandrum]

It's good to see that the presenters have a sense of humour even if that's not always the case with their listeners.

No doubt some listeners would ROTFL if the jocks started hurling custard pies at each other and the guests.

[french frank]

It's good to see that the presenters have a sense of humour even if that's not always the case with their listeners.

Heh, heh! One intriguing thing: it would have lost its point totally if they hadn't been well aware that the original announcement Had Been Noticed!

[salymap]

So they do read us after all then ?

[Word]

Heh, heh! One intriguing thing: it would have lost its point totally if they hadn't been well aware that the original announcement Had Been Noticed!

Oh yes, undoubtedly. I think poking a little friendly fun at some of the posts on here was part of the humour .

[french frank]

Oh yes, undoubtedly. I think poking a little friendly fun at some of the posts on here was part of the humour .

I don't

Laughing at oneself is so much more endearing than laughing at other people's expense

[Norfolk Born]

No doubt some listeners would ROTFL if the jocks started hurling custard pies at each other and the guests.

Are you using ROTFL in its regular sense of 'Regular Old Text Formatting Language', or the more esoteric 'Rasch Obige Teilerkenntnis Frenetisch Lobend'?
Or is this a cleverly disguised further 'dig' at 'a certain presenter'?

[french frank]

I think in its regular sense of Roll On The Floor Laughing.

[Norfolk Born]

I think in its regular sense of Roll On The Floor Laughing.

(I did realize that, but thanks anyway. I was just hoping that 'a certain Forum member' might rise to the challenge of showing us how 'a certain presenter' should do her job).

[french frank]

Oh, so sorry . You asked "Or is this a cleverly disguised further 'dig' at 'a certain presenter'?" but I couldn't see that there was any connection.

I thought it was just the point that some people will laugh at anything (even, possibly, at people being critical), even if it's not funny and not even intended to be. One could dissect it further but that would destroy the slenderly graceful element of humour that was referred to in mercia's original remark

[Word]

Are you using ROTFL in its regular sense of 'Regular Old Text Formatting Language', or the more esoteric 'Rasch Obige Teilerkenntnis Frenetisch Lobend'?
Or is this a cleverly disguised further 'dig' at 'a certain presenter'?

Arf!

(Sorry . Presumably Panjandrum's use of outdated Internet/text 'speak' was to contrast with Ms Walker's more contemporary phraseology but even the uncool kids no longer LOL .)

[antongould]

For me, saly, it all comes back to the comparison with cricket.

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Perhaps it does all come back to a comparison with Cricket but in a different way - in the 50s and early 60s the proper game of cricket many of us love was dying, no one was watching the 3 day county game and test match crowds were falling. The introduction of one day or now even shorter games effectively saved cricket - you could say very little real cricket remains but it is still here! What one day cricket did was to bring in new spectators lots of them and some now follow the 3/4 day game.

Without new spectators/listeners in this commercial world we have what we love will be gone and if short sharp snippets of slogging/popular pieces save something is it not a price that has, sadly, to be paid?

[french frank]

It's an enticing argument, antongould. But where is the evidence that R3's audience was similarly declining? (apart from some hefty falls in the immediate wake of some of the recent changes). And if one is referring to the audience for classical music, rather than the audience for R3, wouldn't more promotion and coverage on mainstream channels be more effective in building a new audience than lowering the standards of R3? Shouldn't the BBC's classical music station cultivate a knowledgeable audience while Classic FM provides the lighter entertainment?

A second point is that whereas new listeners to R3 for the classical music are very welcome, are the methods increasingly being used (personalities/celebrities, 'favourites', undemanding pieces) the only possible methods and are they the best methods for building a knowledgeable audience?

[Norfolk Born]

Perhaps it does all come back to a comparison with Cricket but in a different way - in the 50s and early 60s the proper game of cricket many of us love was dying, no one was watching the 3 day county game and test match crowds were falling. The introduction of one day or now even shorter games effectively saved cricket - you could say very little real cricket remains but it is still here! What one day cricket did was to bring in new spectators lots of them and some now follow the 3/4 day game.

Without new spectators/listeners in this commercial world we have what we love will be gone and if short sharp snippets of slogging/popular pieces save something is it not a price that has, sadly, to be paid?

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