Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[Mal]

Arran Copland is surely what the locals call the police station in Brodick.

That'a a quiet city, except when it's rodeo time.

[LezLee]

It's fun when the red pony visits our town

[Serial_Apologist]

It's fun when the red pony visits our town

Isn't that a bottled beer?

[cloughie]

It's fun when the red pony visits our town

...and goes head to head with Billy the Kid in El Salon Mexico!

[Serial_Apologist]

...and goes head to head with Billy the Kid in El Salon Mexico!

Ah, but wasn't El Salon Mexico composed first?

[cloughie]

...and goes head to head with Billy the Kid in El Salon Mexico!

Truth and story ...

[Mal]

Isn't that a bottled beer?

I know it as a novel by Steinbeck... I need to get out more...

[Serial_Apologist]

I know it as a novel by Steinbeck... I need to get out more...

No, I do!!!

[LezLee]

I know it as a novel by Steinbeck... I need to get out more...

The original Robert Mitchum film is very good, give it a go if you can find it. Not on YT unfortunately.

Here's a bit of Copland's score:

[cloughie]

I first heard of the Red Pony through Andre Previn’s Music Night back in the 70s.

[LMcD]

Although I don't depend solely on IMDB ratings when deciding whether to watch a particular film, they have probably saved me some valuable time over the years - the relevance to this thread being that the 1973 TV version (of which I hadn't previously heard) has a slightly higher rating - 6.7 as against 6.4 - than the 1949 film.

[antongould]

Succinctly put as I couldn't agree more with you. Not helped by the choice of presenter IMO.

The recent words of another resident of this parish ......

“I may be mistaken, but some of the recent ECs with Mr Skelly do seem to have had longer - possibly even complete- pieces.
If the powers that be can't be bothered to engage with the audience(who would be only too happy to make constructive and workable suggestions) they could do worse than consult aforementioned gentleman who is not only pretty clued up about his listeners but also not afraid to make his views known to said listeners by means of somewhat subversive humour on air and I think more directly via online means(to judge from a couple of email replies I have had from him) .... “

I wouldn’t disagree with a word of this .....

[LezLee]

[researcher]

Roughly once or twice each week my wife and I have to drive 40 or 50 km to Cheltenham or Bristol, and, naturally, R3 comes to mind. Though it frequently goes off again almost immediately owing to the amount of waffle and stupid 'competitions' going on. In the face of all that, the noise of the road is frequently preferable. The cripts used to introduce competitions and the like seems repetitive, banal, condescending, and fatuous - to say nothing of boring.

One can only surmise that this 'programme' and others ('mixtape' whatever that is, tape having gone out with the ark, 'playlists', etc..) are conceived as cheap means of filling the available space.

Usually only live concert broadcasts and 'Composer of the Week' are worth devoting attention to. It's a sad come-down after earlier years when listening to the Third Programme was what drew me into a life in music.

[LMcD]

Roughly once or twice each week my wife and I have to drive 40 or 50 km to Cheltenham or Bristol, and, naturally, R3 comes to mind. Though it frequently goes off again almost immediately owing to the amount of waffle and stupid 'competitions' going on. In the face of all that, the noise of the road is frequently preferable. The cripts used to introduce competitions and the like seems repetitive, banal, condescending, and fatuous - to say nothing of boring.

One can only surmise that this 'programme' and others ('mixtape' whatever that is, tape having gone out with the ark, 'playlists', etc..) are conceived as cheap means of filling the available space.

Usually only live concert broadcasts and 'Composer of the Week' are worth devoting attention to. It's a sad come-down after earlier years when listening to the Third Programme was what drew me into a life in music.

Lunchtime Concerts are quite often very good, and some of the recent 11.00 a.m. concerts from the Edinburgh Festival have been outstanding.