Skelly replaces Cowan
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Originally posted by french frank View PostClassic FM's version. This has clearly been brewing for a while. Who knows? Perhaps a beneficial shake-up for the turgid Ess. Cla.? A big move for Skellers.
About as awkward as much of what he comes up with on Ess. Cla. these days. 'Artists who are fully up to the job'????
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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post....though to give him credit, his parting words on the BBC press release are generous and read very well.
That said, I see a parallel with the departure of Catherine Bott to CFM.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 PostWhat's more: BEWARE LEBRECHT!!! He's had his knife into AD since before he took over at R3. ('Arts Council loser in line for R3'? Or headline to that effect? )
That said, I see a parallel with the departure of Catherine Bott to CFM.
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FF: I've found it, and it's breathtakingly nasty. http://slippedisc.com/2014/09/lord-w...ng-at-the-bbc/
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostNo doubt the Skellywag will be a distinct improvement on what's gone before hitherto, but even he may be powerless to improve on (In)essential classics.
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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostFF: I've found it, and it's breathtakingly nasty.
I think Ian Skelly may well be able to make the programme listenable, but it seems to be an unbridgeable gap: listeners who really take their music seriously and aren't satisfied with a string of short to shortish pieces, each apparently chosen for having nothing whatever to do with the previous one, alongside people who definitely want a variety of short pieces each having little to do with the previous one.
Surely, the best that can be hoped for is that the links will be tolerable?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 Eine Alpensinfonie View PostUm. I'm speechless. But I'd prefer several others to go before Rob.
Hopefully Skelly will bring a bit of fresh air to the programme and I might well listen to it a bit more. A fond hope? Maybe.
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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostA welcome side-effect of any exodus may be that Radio 3 is forced to rehabilitate the likes of James Jolly and Jonathan Swain, and perhaps promote the excellent John Shea from his nocturnal ghetto.
Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostFF: I've found it, and it's breathtakingly nasty. http://slippedisc.com/2014/09/lord-w...ng-at-the-bbc/
Never read that before..."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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