Music backwards?

[Flay]

I didn't know you spoke Shlew, ferney. Anna (yes, I spelt that backwards) would have been proud.

Whatever did happen to Anna?

[Dave2002]

I think there's a typo in msg 31!

[french frank]

I think there's a typo in msg 31!

Yep, Flay meant Hslew. Or perhaps hsleW.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That's the effect of htearhi for you!

[MrGongGong]

The whole thing is (of course) a dastardly plot by the Serialist Tendency to prove the Serialism wasn't the "dead end" in music history so often touted amongst some in the "Classical Music Fraternity"

[Dave2002]

That's the effect of htearhi for you!

I guess that's hiraeth - with no translation to Hsilgne!

[ahinton]

The whole thing is (of course) a dastardly plot by the Serialist Tendency to prove the Serialism wasn't the "dead end" in music history so often touted amongst some in the "Classical Music Fraternity"

Maybe, but shouldn't we all wait for S_A's authentic and definitive take on that before assuming certainty about it?

[Flay]

Yep, Flay meant Hslew. Or perhaps hsleW.

Ho tish!

[Dave2002]

Ho tish!

Won wno!

[ahinton]

No one seems yet to have thought to speculate upon whether whoever devised this waste of time might him/herself have been somewhat backward; nor has anyone mentioned the notorious barb against Max Reger that his name, like his music, spells the same whether forwards or backwards...

[Mal]

Look down your knowledgeable noses by all means but please remember we can't all be high brow musical encyclopedias, nor does everyone listening to R3 want the same thing of it. I don't like the Thursday afternoon 'gap' that is the opera matinee slot, and am likely not alone in that, but that's not a reason to say it shouldn't be there. Given the 24 hour R3 output and choice of ways to listen to it, is the EC irritation such a big deal?

I'm not a high brow musical encyclopedia, I turn on R3 for quite short periods of time, maybe tuning in to essential classics for thirty minutes hoping to discover a new piece of classical music that I might enjoy. Yesterday I turned it on and got that irritating backwards quiz, today some woman talking about her garden and how she dislikes scratchy string quartets (!) Hey I come to discover string quartets, not be told they are rubbish! (It actually got quite good after this appalling interview - they do know how to do it. Isn't it obvious that they should simply go on playing the music, with good short links, and ditch the naff guests?)