3beebies aka Breakfast

[subcontrabass]

Which was the other played?

Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Saturday Classics last Saturday.

[Flay]

Sorry to resurrect and old thread, but it will not have escaped notice that kids have been doing 'Your Call' this week. I find myself in two minds about this. OTOH it is good to know that some youngsters out there are doing 'proper' music (and their words are no less enlightening than those of the adults who call in) OTOH it makes this annoying slot all the worse, because it seems to elicit extra mindless gush from the presenters.

I wasn't working yesterday so heard "Your Call" for the first time. My first reaction was of horror at phone-in requests. However here was an intelligent articulate eighteen-year-old (Bethan) discussing music she loved, and that she had studied for her Grade 8 viola, and she won me over. However I could not match what Bethan had said about the piece with the one performed. Later Petroc confessed that he had played the wrong track. Poor Bethan. I hope this did not upset her so much that she failed her driving test yesterday afternoon.

[ardcarp]

I wasn't working yesterday so heard "Your Call" for the first time.

Yes, you were lucky you got Bethani. A typical adult Your Caller spins a yarn, usually along the lines of hearing Elgar's Cello Concerto in the bath at the age of three and how it changed his/her life, etc, etc. Are we going to have to put up with this for the next decade or so? Will even the producers get weary and start looking for some really wacky ones? Maybe giving birth during Cage's 4'33 (with attendant noises)?

[DracoM]

Top snork, ardcarp!!

[Frances_iom]

..Will even the producers get weary and start looking for some really wacky ones? Maybe giving birth during Cage's 4'33 (with attendant noises)?

why not associate this with that other 'seminal work by Duchamp - tho I guess 4min is a bit long to be taking the p*ss - after all Duchamps is on record that his intent with the piece was to shift the focus of art from physical craft to intellectual interpretation.

[Crowcatcher]

I turned on my radio yesterday (Saturday 'Breakfast) in readiness to listen to my recording of TTN and caught the end of "Vltava", so sent text to Clemency BH Saying "Vltava, J***s C****t, that's the third time on Breakfeast this year" funny she didn't read it out; that then followed, not by a whole movement, but just a part of a movement from Saint-Saen's Septet - can it ge t any worse? (The playlist says the whole movement but it was much shorter than that on my CD)
PS TTN has been absolutely superb for these last few weeks - no repeats, no 'trails' and superb presentation.

[cloughie]

I turned on my radio yesterday (Saturday 'Breakfast) in readiness to listen to my recording of TTN and caught the end of "Vltava", so sent text to Clemency BH Saying "Vltava, J***s C****t, that's the third time on Breakfeast this year" funny she didn't read it out; that then followed, not by a whole movement, but just a part of a movement from Saint-Saen's Septet - can it ge t any worse? (The playlist says the whole movement but it was much shorter than that on my CD)
PS TTN has been absolutely superb for these last few weeks - no repeats, no 'trails' and superb presentation.

Familiarity breeds contempt - all those lovely works you loved become 'oh not agains' - so sad!

[kernelbogey]

I was listening to the last hour of TTN this morning, and as the applause for the Fledermaus overture died away, I switched off. Yesterday I tolerated CBH's bushy tailed intro in order to catch the news headlines but turned off after a minute or so of Lopka's gloomy reading of the news. It's become intolerable.

[mercia]

followed, not by a whole movement, but just a part of a movement from Saint-Saen's Septet - can it get any worse? (The playlist says the whole movement but it was much shorter than that on my CD)

far be it for me to disagree but I believe the playlist was accurate on this occasion
mind you it was taken at such a lick that it is probably the "shortest" available on CD

[Norfolk Born]

far be it for me to disagree but I believe the playlist was accurate on this occasion
mind you it was taken at such a lick that it is probably the "shortest" available on CD

I think they may have compensated for that with this morning's Barber Adagio (see my message on the 'Classic Fm-ification' thread.

[EdgeleyRob]

PS TTN has been absolutely superb for these last few weeks - no repeats, no 'trails' and superb presentation.

They should rename TTN Through The Day and play it from 06.30 am.

[cloughie]

Has SMP got ideas to be in the newsroom after the hopefully soon demise of Breakfast - you would think so the number of impromptu news summaries she delivers, and talk of boring us to death with the Oscars. However one bright glimmer this morning when she actually got around to playing some music was both the Debussy Arabesques back to back. By the way why does playing a piece of music have to become a wake-up call, what's wrong with just announcing and press to play?

[kernelbogey]

It says a lot about the programme that SMP and her producer think there is a strong overlap in interest between the Oscars and serious music.

[Master Jacques]

SMP's obsessed with films. In a pre-Prom talk she introduced last summer she asked for a show of hands as to how many of us had - like her - first heard Barber's Adagio as part of the sound track of some god-awful Hollywood flick, confidently expecting a buzz of recognition. She seemed flummoxed when, in the stony silence which followed, precisely nobody raised a hand. For me, it was moment symptomatic of R3's current desire to "connect" with an audience which doesn't exist except in the heads of a few of its presenters and producers.

[kernelbogey]

[...] R3's current desire to "connect" with an audience which doesn't exist except in the heads of a few of its presenters and producers.

I think that's well put. I fear that those who have a cultural belief in the habit of tweet, text and email to convey passing thoughts are believed by those in charge of R3 to represent its audience constituency. I'm interested in films, but not in the Oscars. I use email and text, but I don't want to pass my every transient thought onto the world at large.