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(Do you know Copland's 'Rodeo'? It's in the same category!)
Worse, in fact! Guess what's on now? Copland's
BLOODY *UCKAROO HOLIDAY!!!
"...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..."
Got on Peter Hill playing works from Book II of the 48, recorded from the end of CD Review a couple of weeks ago. Absolutely sublime!!
Perfect to ease one's way calmly into the last day of the working week
"...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..."
I notice Breakfast is slipping into a pattern used by many other music stations: Just before the news they play a song/piece that they know everyone likes - as if to say 'we know you think news is boring and there's every chance you'll turn off, but this tune will make you like us and stay for more'. They then reward your commitment by playing another popular number immediately after the news. Then its all downhill from there.
I first noticed this with R2 about 10yrs ago. The theory is rather strange. Its as if, when they really do fear losing you, they will give you what you want. The rest of the time, they will knowingly give you what they know you dont want.
Last edited by Guest; 17-05-12, 11:11.
Reason: wrong thread. but near enough.
Present to us a complete Mahler seven
Play all of Daphisand Chloe just for me
Not just a part of an opus one eleven
Or the organ bit chopped out from Saint-Saens three.
We’re fed up of just hearing bits and pieces
And the depths to which morning on 3 has sunk
Listening as the gravitas decreases
With chunk after chunk and another bleeding chunk
Am I the only person driven mad by these ghastly Radio 3 Masterchef style trailers - a ridiculous one for the Brahms Violin Concerto to be played by Isabelle Faust this thursday described it as noble and spacious and capped by a gypsy finale as if it were a cake ! The orchestra and conductor of course were not mentioned .
"...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..."
Erm, Whitacre's 'Sleep' on EC this morning. Welcome but the programme list has it that it is by Chris 'Dow Jones' Whitacre. Isn't he a rap artist?
Not only that but, perplexingly, he doesn't have a Wikipedia article about him so it's hard to know how he ever got included in the software. Eric Whitacre, on the other hand, has a reasonably long article.
If they've put it right, at least it shows that someone is checking the playlists - for a change.
And who knows, after the Eurovision debacle, Engelbert Humperdinck may be thought of by playlist compilers as a German opera composer ...
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.
I now rarely tune in before Composer of the Week at 12. From then on things are more or less OK. I still don't understand why there can be no late evening classical music between 10 and 12.30.
I think 11 May was a Friday, so even Caliban works on much the same basis as the rest of the country ...
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.
Mystified by Frenchie's kind remark, I wonder what you were getting at here, Norfs?
"...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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