3beebies aka Breakfast

[Nick Armstrong]

My reference to 'Dim Sum' was meant to be taken more as a play on words, implying that R3's morning output doesn't make much sense when you add it all up...

I see... !! Knowing that your penchant for puzzles, it was indeed Dim of me to take you Sumwhat literally !

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Real 3beebies this morning. Roger Quliter's Children's Overture was not only played but done as a local-radio-style dedication.

Quilter's Children's Overture is a finely crafted work, and should not be dragged down simply because of the dummed-down DJ approach now so nausiatingly present on R3.

[salymap]

Quilter's Children's Overture is a finely crafted work, and should not be dragged down simply because of the dummed-down DJ approach now so nausiatingly present on R3.

Likewise, Victor Hely-Hutchinson's 'Carol Symphony' which is bound to appear soon. A clever and once popular work.

[Norfolk Born]

I see... !! Knowing that your penchant for puzzles, it was indeed Dim of me to take you Sumwhat literally !

[ardcarp]

EA

Quilter's Children's Overture is a finely crafted work

It is in the sense of its orchestration...not quite sure I agree about the way the medley hangs together. Its relevance for today's kids is limited as most of the tunes are unknown to them. It rather smacks of something a maiden aunt might play thinking it was cool. My main point, however was the 'dedication'. Are we going to get, "Now Sharon from Sheffield has asked us to play something for her boyfriend Tyler who is taking his NVQ level one in hairdressing today, so here is a track from Scheherezade...."

Oh, stop me, somebody.

[Serial_Apologist]

EA


It is in the sense of its orchestration...not quite sure I agree about the way the medley hangs together. Its relevance for today's kids is limited as most of the tunes are unknown to them. It rather smacks of something a maiden aunt might play thinking it was cool. My main point, however was the 'dedication'. Are we going to get, "Now Sharon from Sheffield has asked us to play something for her boyfriend Tyler who is taking his NVQ level one in hairdressing today, so here is a track from Scheherezade...."

Oh, stop me, somebody.

"And before our next request, Sharon from Doncaster has just rung to ask, is that the roof tiler she went out with last Christmas?"

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

naff naff naff i ran from the room .... cr8p about Purdy and Primrose Hill and lottery winners ..... i just knew i should not have turned on the bedroom radio ... Wogan did this kind of thing with wit and panache .... one felt an intelligence behind the bonhomie .... it is not only that it should not be done, it is done really really poorly .... the agony of a thumbnail on a blackboard

[Nick Armstrong]

It rather smacks of something a maiden aunt might play thinking it was cool.

That hits the nail on the head as far as the whole damn programme is concerned, I think.

Like Calum, I give it a try every so often on the bedside radio, but today, some 'orrible opera aria squarked by some strangulated tenor made me switch off.

Now got recordings of various Summer CD Reviews playing - currently Ed Gardner's recording of the suite from Britten's 'Gloriana' - good morning music.

[teamsaint]

that big box of ravel for £10.99 is looking like a way out of this, for a wek or two at least. !!

[Barbirollians]

Annoying as the Today programme is I tend to listen to Radio 4 in the morning . The other day something deadly dull was on and I switched over to Radio 3 . Horror of horrors I thought I have switched to Classic FM by mistake surely Radio 3 would not inflict the oleaginous Petroc Trelawny on us again at this time of day and only snippets are being played .

This apparently is what Radio 3 listeners want at breakfast time !

Oh for the days of Morning Concert with that deep voiced announcer who went on to be a Catholic priest .

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

EA
It is in the sense of its orchestration...not quite sure I agree about the way the medley hangs together.

It was the orchestration I had in mind, but I've known the medley for so long that I can't imagine it being anything but what it is. As you say, it would mean little to today's children, who know very few nursery rhymes. Oranges and Lemons is no longer a playgound game, but it is sometimes taught in children's dance schools.

[barber olly]

that big box of ravel for £10.99 is looking like a way out of this, for a wek or two at least. !!

Be careful, there'll be a Bolero lurking there!

[MickyD]

I stopped listening altogether on Monday and seeing these latest comments, don't have any compulsion to go back and give it another try.

[kernelbogey]

I'm not sure if I've read this point elsewhere on this thread - apologies if it's already been made - but could the endless repetitions of Four Seasons, Romeo and Juliet, Bolero et al occur because the managers, marketers and (God help us) the producers think that those whom they should be encouraging to listen to Radio three actually like hearing repeated familiar works? This occurred to me during the week, and is revived by switching on this morning and hearing Crown Imperial (to me a trite old warhorse). This is not a policy, I think, which applies to the output of Radios 1 and 2.

[Norfolk Born]

I stopped listening altogether on Monday and seeing these latest comments, don't have any compulsion to go back and give it another try.

Same here (except that I stopped listening some months ago).
Has it not occurred to RW that, once long-time listeners cease to start their day with Radio 3, theye're increasingly unlikely to return later? Especially since there are so many wonderful programmes to de discovered on Radio 4!
Two recent examples being:
- Kevin Crossley-Holland's beautiful feature on the struggle to save the East Anglian coastline from the sea;
- Lenny Henry's astonishing performance in the 'Bad Faith' trilogy.
And I've just recorded a play, written by Alan Plater and starring James Bolam ('nuff said!) off Radio 4 Extra.
I think the day is approaching when my many happpy hours spent listening to Radio 3 will be no more than a fond memory.