John White and Live Bats on Sunday Morning

[Paulie55]

Absolute rubbish, not worth the playing time! What on earth are Radio 3 trying to foist upon us? Would you expect Radios 1 and 2 to schedule experimental/avant-garde classical music in their programmes? Stop it now!! The only truly classical radio station in the UK? I'm going to start listening to Internet radio from now on!

[LMcD]

Absolute rubbish, not worth the playing time! What on earth are Radio 3 trying to foist upon us? Would you expect Radios 1 and 2 to schedule experimental/avant-garde classical music in their programmes? Stop it now!! The only truly classical radio station in the UK? I'm going to start listening to Internet radio from now on!

If you're referring to Mr Handley's little domestic crisis, this has been discussed on the 'Breakfast Eternal Debate' thread. While understanding some people's irritation at Martin's Cobnuts Saga, I still prefer that to yet another trail for BBC Sounds.
On the subject of internet stations, have you tried Radio Klassik Stephansdom?

[MrGongGong]

Shame I missed this.
I love John White's music
but thanks for letting me know and i'll seek it out

[Bryn]

Shame I missed this.
I love John White's music
but thanks for letting me know and i'll seek it out

You will, then, have got your hands on, and/or your ears around Jonathan Powell's two volumes of John White's Piano Sonatas (with more to come). As to "Live Bats", I wonder if P55 is confusing this with "Live Batts!" (the number of exclamation marks varies). I first encountered the Live Batts!! trio in the Old Operating Theatre a couple of decades ago. I also attended the launch of the Ants CD from which this morning's Adventures in Outer Space was taken. That piece also featured in the Old Operating Theatre concert. In addition to the Ants CD, there is also a CD-R of Live Batts!!! 'live' available for Experimental Music Catalogue. Live Batts!!!, as against Live Batts!! was.is the duo of John White and Christopher Hobbs, both of whom formed half of Promenade Theatre Orchestra (PTO), formed back in the early 1970s.



It is hardly surprising that Doc Walker should offer to share her enthusiasm for Live Batts!!. She is, after all, Mr White's partner in the piano duo WWII.

[Richard Barrett]

As to "Live Bats", I wonder if P55 is confusing this with "Live Batts!"

I've seen them a couple of times too, I can't vouch for the number of exclamation marks but that distinction (as well as the double "t") will probably have been difficult to hear on the radio. I remember the music having been gently inscrutable in the way JW's work often is, and in no way objectionable.