Originally posted by Bryn
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Tearjerker, Downtown Symphony, Piano Flow, Happy Harmonies and other Saturday padding
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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 PostHmm.What to say … I was up for early breakfast, to get ready to go to the Coop at 8am. Curiosity made me switch on an old "ghetto blaster" I'd rescued from my workshop, and cleaned up ready to put it on Freecycle or dump it on the front wall in the hope someone would take it away. It 'came' tuned to R3 and worked on the mains. So when I switched on …I wasn't sure … but kept listening to what I think would be described as a "mixtape". Occasionally the presenter spoke over the music, I think she said she was playing one of 'her own': was that the Beatles song? Finally she handed over to someone else who announced herself as Elizabeth Alker. I switched off, thoughtfully. Shall I bother to write a letter/email to the Controller to give him, helpfully, the benefit of my thoughts? Telling him I was not sure whether he is naive or cynical might not be received well.
Add: Just read the kernel's. Yes the Beatles song was the King's Singers but seemed to be mixed with something else.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostOne of "her own" would be as in "one what I wrote" I assume as there is an item three from the end (ie not the Beatles' song), "Someone New" by Laufrey who is the presenter.
I've remembered: a mashup.
(Not a mishap)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 PostThank you. That would be it. I thought it sort of merged in with the Beatles song like - there's a word for combining these things but I've forgotten what it is. A modern thing
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostVia a piece called Killer+ The Sound apparently, which sounds more like mess tape than mix tape.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 Post
I've remembered: a mashup.
(Not a mishap)
( ... and 'misled' was 'myzeld', the past participle of 'to misle', and 'bedraggled' 'bed-raggled'. Obviously... )
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Originally posted by antongould View PostI think you should bother ff ..... but, unusually, you worry me a little - are you saying it wasn’t Alkers but an imposter ...... ????
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Originally posted by french frank View PostThank you. That would be it. I thought it sort of merged in with the Beatles song like - there's a word for combining these things but I've forgotten what it is. A modern thing
I've remembered: a mashup.
(Not a mishap)
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostThere's this very odd thing that they now do on these programmes - especially noticeable on Night Sounds - of never letting the music stop, for example when the presenter is speaking - some sort of sampling and looping of the previous track. The most irritating one is on Classical Fix where they've lifted the pizzicato string part from Tchaikowsky 4 scherzo looping it as some sort of punctuation mark.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 Post... Sitting quietly for, phew, I don't know, 15 minutes perhaps and just listening to ONE piece of music - where's the enjoyment in that? ....
Those of us educated before mass television were lucky in that reading widened ones interests and the museums satisfied the want to see the items described in the textbooks - but reading required spending considerable time devoted to a single activity which became a transferable norm eg in listening to a symphony - television & especially now the internet have encouraged short attention spans.
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Originally posted by Frances_iom View PostThose of us educated before mass television were lucky in that reading widened ones interests and the museums satisfied the want to see the items described in the textbooks - but reading required spending considerable time devoted to a single activity which became a transferable norm eg in listening to a symphony - television & especially now the internet have encouraged short attention spans.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 Frances_iom View PostI suspect this 'dumbing down' has been going on for some years - heard a Zoom lecture this afternoon presented by my engineering society - a common point from both sides of the Atlantic was that historical engineering artefacts have over the last 10-20 years disappeared from museums to be replaced by interactive screens offering a simplified history of some phase of engineering - the actual artefacts having been moved to publicly inaccessible storage sites - there now being more emphasis on games than on the actual technology.
Those of us educated before mass television were lucky in that reading widened ones interests and the museums satisfied the want to see the items described in the textbooks - but reading required spending considerable time devoted to a single activity which became a transferable norm eg in listening to a symphony - television & especially now the internet have encouraged short attention spans.
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