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  • AuntDaisy
    Host
    • Jun 2018
    • 1646

    Originally posted by french frank View Post

    Might be the moment to quote from A. Goehr's letter ("hope you can use some of this"):

    "But just at the time when we need it most [this 2002], Radio 3 decides, for ideological reasons, to attack the integrity, vitality and variety of (in the widest sense) the domain of Classical Music in the search for popularization. It is high time Radio 3 took back its rightful position as a principal contributor to the musical life of this country and veered away from its seemingly ideocyncratic [sic, lovely!] and wayward by-paths of little interest in themselves and of even less effect."

    Might send this to Sam Jackson.

    Spot on & beautifully written (in both senses).

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    • antongould
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8782

      Skellers has reappeared

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      • cria
        Full Member
        • Jul 2022
        • 84

        Originally posted by antongould View Post
        Skellers has reappeared
        In The Artisan Bread Aisle At Aldi? Not for me

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        • AuntDaisy
          Host
          • Jun 2018
          • 1646

          Originally posted by antongould View Post
          Skellers has reappeared
          Gore blimey, there's also a Penny run on TTN.

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          • Serial_Apologist
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 37684

            Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
            Gore blimey, there's also a Penny run on TTN.
            A Penny for our thoughts.............

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            • LMcD
              Full Member
              • Sep 2017
              • 8468

              I decided not to suggest Bax's 'November Woods for this morning's 'Playlister Challenge', as I suspected that, even if it was chosen, they wouldn't play all of it.
              I've just checked the playlist, which includes 'Bax: November Woods (Excerpt)'

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              • Pulcinella
                Host
                • Feb 2014
                • 10931

                Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                I decided not to suggest Bax's 'November Woods for this morning's 'Playlister Challenge', as I suspected that, even if it was chosen, they wouldn't play all of it.
                I've just checked the playlist, which includes 'Bax: November Woods (Excerpt)'
                Maybe your suggestion would have prompted a different excerpt, and we could have had the whole thing.

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                • LMcD
                  Full Member
                  • Sep 2017
                  • 8468

                  Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

                  Maybe your suggestion would have prompted a different excerpt, and we could have had the whole thing.
                  Probably 16th to 30th November followed by the first half of the month.

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                  • smittims
                    Full Member
                    • Aug 2022
                    • 4150

                    As Erik Satie might have sald, 'I like the little bit where Arnold rides his bike round a bend and is hit by a sudden gust of wind'.

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                    • Serial_Apologist
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                      • Dec 2010
                      • 37684

                      Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

                      Maybe your suggestion would have prompted a different excerpt, and we could have had the whole thing.
                      How could they play only an excerpt from November Woods? It isn't a multiple movement work!

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                      • LMcD
                        Full Member
                        • Sep 2017
                        • 8468

                        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post

                        How could they play only an excerpt from November Woods? It isn't a multiple movement work!
                        I've just checked on Sounds - after about four and a half minutes it was faded straight into the next piece.

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30286

                          Originally posted by LMcD View Post

                          I've just checked on Sounds - after about four and a half minutes it was faded straight into the next piece.
                          Come in, November Woods: your time's up.
                          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
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                            • Nov 2015
                            • 9192

                            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post

                            How could they play only an excerpt from November Woods? It isn't a multiple movement work!
                            Plenty of practice...

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37684

                              Originally posted by LMcD View Post

                              I've just checked on Sounds - after about four and a half minutes it was faded straight into the next piece.
                              Sacrilege!!!

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                              • smittims
                                Full Member
                                • Aug 2022
                                • 4150

                                And this is under a Controller Radio 3 who pretends he cares about classical music. Tell it to the Marines, Sam.

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