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  • MrGongGong
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 18357

    Originally posted by LMcD View Post
    I suggested Walter Piston's 'Mountains' from his Three New England Sketches, but I see it wasn't chosen. At least listeners were spared Grieg's trolls.
    I'm sorrry I missed it
    I would have suggested this

    Promo video for Move Any Mountain - Progen 91 by The Shamen directed by Mathew Glamorre.The video has been upscaled to HD and restored as much as possible fo...

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    • hmvman
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 1097

      Meanwhile, at about that time, I was listening to a complete Haydn symphony via WDR3...

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      • LMcD
        Full Member
        • Sep 2017
        • 8405

        Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
        I'm sorrry I missed it
        I would have suggested this

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vroc...&frags=pl%2Cwn
        That would have made a wonderful pairing with a certain number from 'The Sound Of Music'

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        • french frank
          Administrator/Moderator
          • Feb 2007
          • 30241

          Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
          I'm sorrry I missed it
          I would have suggested this

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vroc...&frags=pl%2Cwn
          As long as you'd been clear what it was, it would have stood a good chance of being chosen. Though IS might have refused to play it …
          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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          • oddoneout
            Full Member
            • Nov 2015
            • 9142

            Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
            My point was that the best follow-up of the middle of a work is what the composer wrote for the rest of it - not the result of a parlour game, or even a referendum.
            I understand that, but I'm coming at it from the other end as it were. If people only hear a bit that's better than nothing in my view in terms of opportunity to follow up something that's of interest(especially since that's so much easier now with the treasury of online resources), and if the follow-on pieces do the same so much the better. The morning schedule is what it is rather than what it should be, so expecting it to do something that's not in its current specification is a waste of effort, but if listener pressure(whether through criticism of certain aspects or by making more informed suggestions for music) can prevent it sliding even further down the slippery slope to complete uselessness, so much the better.
            What would be really worrying is if the chunky approach became a feature of the afternoon and evening schedules...

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            • Bax-of-Delights
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 745

              To today’s follow on piece to “Peter and the Wolf” I emailed in and suggested “Sparky’s Magic Piano”.

              To my chagrin it was not chosen nor mentioned nor even sneered at by SK.
              O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26523

                Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                To today’s follow on piece to “Peter and the Wolf” I emailed in and suggested “Sparky’s Magic Piano”.

                To my chagrin it was not chosen nor mentioned nor even sneered at by SK.
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • oddoneout
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2015
                  • 9142

                  Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                  To today’s follow on piece to “Peter and the Wolf” I emailed in and suggested “Sparky’s Magic Piano”.

                  To my chagrin it was not chosen nor mentioned nor even sneered at by SK.
                  I thought it was a pretty poor choice of playlist starter. Playing single movements from a bigger work is less than ideal, and unacceptable to many, but to stop part way through Peter and the Wolf because, inconveniently, the whole thing is too long isn't even a 'bleeding chunk' as previously experienced, it's filleting said b.chunk. I hope it doesn't set a precedent; coupled with SK whose mannered manner(ham actor) I'm disliking more and more even I would likely admit defeat.

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                  • LMcD
                    Full Member
                    • Sep 2017
                    • 8405

                    Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                    To today’s follow on piece to “Peter and the Wolf” I emailed in and suggested “Sparky’s Magic Piano”.

                    To my chagrin it was not chosen nor mentioned nor even sneered at by SK.
                    My suggested follow-up to 'Wachet auf' was 'Wake Up Little Suzy', likewise greeted with a deafening silence.

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22114

                      Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                      My suggested follow-up to 'Wachet auf' was 'Wake Up Little Suzy', likewise greeted with a deafening silence.
                      You'll have to suggest 'Sorry Suzanne' tomorrow to make amends!

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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22114

                        Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                        To today’s follow on piece to “Peter and the Wolf” I emailed in and suggested “Sparky’s Magic Piano”.

                        To my chagrin it was not chosen nor mentioned nor even sneered at by SK.
                        What did she play Peter Schreier singing a Hugo Wolf song?

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                        • Eine Alpensinfonie
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20570

                          I may think International Women’s Day is an excuse for BBC tokenism, playing music they apparently don’t seem fit for the other 364 days.

                          But, as happened in previous years, EC is far more interesting today than on other days, with music that’s mostly new to our ears.

                          Best of all, the ghastly playlist game was dropped.

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37589

                            Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                            I may think International Women’s Day is an excuse for BBC tokenism, playing music they apparently don’t seem fit for the other 364 days.

                            But, as happened in previous years, EC is far more interesting today than on other days, with music that’s mostly new to our ears.

                            Best of all, the ghastly playlist game was dropped.
                            And last night's TTN introduced me, at any rate, to a whole wonderful realm of women composers, most of whom I had not previously heard (of).

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                            • Master Jacques
                              Full Member
                              • Feb 2012
                              • 1873

                              Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                              But, as happened in previous years, EC is far more interesting today than on other days, with music that’s mostly new to our ears. Best of all, the ghastly playlist game was dropped.
                              Very true, on both counts! I personally thanked goodness that we were - for one day in the year - spared Rhapsody in Blue and its ilk. The programme also proved beyond a shadow of doubt, that women are every bit as capable as men, when it comes to third-rate note-spinning.

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37589

                                Originally posted by Master Jacques View Post
                                Very true, on both counts! I personally thanked goodness that we were - for one day in the year - spared Rhapsody in Blue and its ilk. The programme also proved beyond a shadow of doubt, that women are every bit as capable as men, when it comes to third-rate note-spinning.
                                I think that's what is known as negative capability, MJ!

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