Tearjerker, Downtown Symphony, Piano Flow, Happy Harmonies and other Saturday padding

[AuntDaisy]

Steady now - I admire your wishful thinking but maybe they just haven’t updated!

Two weeks running! I'm ever the eternal optimist (rose tinted specs and all.)

Perhaps they've started A-levels or College?

[Andrew Slater]

I wouldn't be too hopeful - the entry in this week's Radio Times for Saturday's 'Happy Harmonies' (in the Friday listing owing to the RT's tenuous grip on the workings of the calendar) states: "From next week the series is on hiatus for a short break." So the world will hear from them again ....... [I think the statement might be one for Pedants' Paradise.]

[AuntDaisy]

Thanks Andrew - not good news, but even a short break would be very welcome.

(In these PC times, is CL / FM allowed? Or even Dr Chou En Ginsberg, MA (Failed)?)

[oddoneout]

I wouldn't be too hopeful - the entry in this week's Radio Times for Saturday's 'Happy Harmonies' (in the Friday listing owing to the RT's tenuous grip on the workings of the calendar) states: "From next week the series is on hiatus for a short break." So the world will hear from them again ....... [I think the statement might be one for Pedants' Paradise.]

Unfortunately it would appear to be a new figure of speech - or ignorant bit of jargon depending on your view...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20on%20hiatus

[AuntDaisy]

Unfortunately it would appear to be a new figure of speech - or ignorant bit of jargon depending on your view...
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dict...%20on%20hiatus

Perfect timing oddoneout.
After 9 months of drivel, I can now trot out a "pregnant pause" pun (in dubious taste).

[Andrew Slater]

(In these PC times, is CL / FM allowed? Or even Dr Chou En Ginsberg, MA (Failed)?)

I'm sure I've no idea to what you are referring

I've just seen next week's RT, and can confirm that it shows TtN back to 6 hours on Friday 24th / Saturday 25th

[Andrew Slater]

Unfortunately it would appear to be a new figure of speech - or ignorant bit of jargon depending on your view...
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dict...%20on%20hiatus

... or just pure gibberish. (I was going to make a 'joke' about the break being spent on holiday on an island called hiatus, but thought better of it.)

[AuntDaisy]

I'm sure I've no idea to what you are referring

I've just seen next week's RT, and can confirm that it shows TtN back to 6 hours on Friday 24th / Saturday 25th

That's good news, thanks.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I've just seen next week's RT, and can confirm that it shows TtN back to 6 hours on Friday 24th / Saturday 25th

I suppose the next thing to purge is the 07:00 to 09:00 Saturday morning slot.

[oddoneout]

I suppose the next thing to purge is the 07:00 to 09:00 Saturday morning slot.

That would create a gap, and given the way things go these days that is almost certainly not preferable to what is on at present. Would some form of dumbtime really be better, as that would probably be the outcome? Not least as it would completely remove listeners - few as they may be, I don't know - rather than just having not very many, and again I don't think that's the way to go, even if R3 management seem to want it.

[french frank]

Would some form of dumbtime really be better, as that would probably be the outcome?

With the current direction of R3 management with its crusade/mission to popularise the station, any significant changes to the schedule are likely to be viewed as 'worse' by some. The problem is, it is always the same segment of the audience which regards the changes as worse/dumbing down because no changes have been aimed at satisfying that segment now for - literally - decades.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

That would create a gap, and given the way things go these days that is almost certainly not preferable to what is on at present. Would some form of dumbtime really be better, as that would probably be the outcome? Not least as it would completely remove listeners - few as they may be, I don't know - rather than just having not very many, and again I don't think that's the way to go, even if R3 management seem to want it.

My point is that that it’s already dumb time, and could be remedied by finding a better presenter.

[oddoneout]

My point is that that it’s already dumb time, and could be remedied by finding a better presenter.

There is as yet quite a bit of clear space between EA's Saturday morning and what I have heard of dumbtime. A different presenter might improve matters; I don't think it's a case of "better" so much as "better suited to R3"?

[AuntDaisy]

Here's what we missed today - hopefully the last Saturday TTN cut for at least 3 weeks.
Available to our European friends via EBU Notturno, e.g. Swedish radio.

https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1785329

01:01 Francesco Maria Veracini; Sonata in F major for Violin and Continuo, Op 1 no 12; Gottfried von der Goltz (violin), Lee Santana (theorbo), Torsten Johann (harpsichord)
01:19 Fran Lhotka; Davo u sela (Devil in the Village); Croatian Radio and Television Chorus, Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Mladen Tarbuk (conductor)
01:41 Emil Sjogren; Sonata for cello and piano (Op.58) in A major; Mats Rondin (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
01:58 Santiago de Murcia; 2 pieces from 'Codex de Saldívar'; Xavier Diaz-Latorre (guitar)
02:07 Johann Strauss II, Arnold Schoenberg (arranger); Rosen aus dem Suden: waltz arr. Schoenberg for harmonium, piano & string quartet; Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Raffi Armenian (director)
02:16 Christian Frederik Emil Horneman; Overture (Aladdin); Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schonwandt (conductor)
02:28 George Frideric Handel; Oboe Sonata in A minor Op.1 No.4; Louise Pellerin (oboe), Dom Andre Laberge (organ)
02:35 Bela Bartok; 8 Improvisations on Hungarian peasant songs for piano (Sz.74) (Op.20); Grace Francis (piano)
02:47 Johann Christian Bach; Symphony in G minor, op. 6/6; Les Passions de L'Ame, Meret Luthi (conductor)
Info from https://www.ebu.ch/files/live/sites/...ber%202021.pdf

I'm enjoying the Veracini - beautifully played.

[AuntDaisy]

Here's what we missed from today's TTN:

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Sadly, the listing for 16/10/2021 is back to 4 hours. So, it looks to be 3 weeks of TTN and then back to the drivel.
Andrew Slater was right about the hiatus.