Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie
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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Roehre
Originally posted by vinteuil View PostI agree.
... if there were playlists - even better, if details were provided in the Radio Times - then I wd listen far more.
As it is, I find Breakfast, Essential Classics, In Tune etc unlistenable-to, so probably miss stuff I wd otherwise really like to hear.
Radio 3 has lost me as a listener for much of the day...
My time is too precious to listen to music I know inside out or to inane talking
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Richard Tarleton
Driving back from counting ducks on a windswept estuary I turned the car radio on, caught the end of some Purcell. SW: "Several tweets came in during that. Tim says thanks for that, Christmas has come early for us lovers of great music"
Apart from the obvious, that if they're tweeting during the music they're not listening, what does this add to the experience of anyone, apart from Tim? I drove the rest of the way listening to the rumble of my Michelin tyres (see other thread).
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I know, I heard that, and not the only vacuous tweet either!
I'm listening to Radio 3 less and less now, even though I thought I'd reached rock bottom some time ago.
What makes things worse is when you switch off at a point like the above, switch back on a while later and find you've missed the tail end of something you wanted to listen to (I don't read the playlist beforehand, I like to be surprised). Looks like they've got us both ways :-(
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostDriving back from counting ducks on a windswept estuary I turned the car radio on, caught the end of some Purcell. SW: "Several tweets came in during that. Tim says thanks for that, Christmas has come early for us lovers of great music"
Apart from the obvious, that if they're tweeting during the music they're not listening, what does this add to the experience of anyone, apart from Tim? I drove the rest of the way listening to the rumble of my Michelin tyres (see other thread).
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Originally posted by Lancashire Lass View PostI know, I heard that, and not the only vacuous tweet either!
I'm listening to Radio 3 less and less now, even though I thought I'd reached rock bottom some time ago.
What makes things worse is when you switch off at a point like the above, switch back on a while later and find you've missed the tail end of something you wanted to listen to (I don't read the playlist beforehand, I like to be surprised). Looks like they've got us both ways :-(
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostOr don't have us at all because we've switched off. When will the Beeb powers that be twig tHat we don't want CFM2?
But one of the points I made to the Trust is that "We" have been made to feel that - in 'British-Rail' speak: we're the wrong kind of audience. So what "We don't want" doesn't matter.
Radio 3 has got away with claiming they're a cut above Classic FM, assuming that is necessarily good enough. Let's hope others at the BBC disagree.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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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostDriving back from counting ducks on a windswept estuary I turned the car radio on, caught the end of some Purcell. SW: "Several tweets came in during that. Tim says thanks for that, Christmas has come early for us lovers of great music"
Apart from the obvious, that if they're tweeting during the music they're not listening, what does this add to the experience of anyone, apart from Tim? I drove the rest of the way listening to the rumble of my Michelin tyres (see other thread).
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by JFLL View PostThe tweets are obviously just read out to make Tom (or Tim), Dick and Harry feel wanted (just as RC always gives us a 'very warm welcome', as though he was inviting us in for a mince pie and a glass of punch), to mitigate the alleged 'dauntingness' of classical music. But the danger is that it prompts the question, if you don't happen to be that particular Tom, Dick or Harry, 'Who cares what they think?' So 'inclusivity' may be counter-productive.
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Don Petter
Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostBoth sides are complicit in this - the writer, for his /her/their vacuous, nugatory tweet which conveys nothing, written in haste, while the music is playing, for the sole purpose of hearing it read out at the end of the piece - not information, not understanding, not sharing of experience, nothing - and the presenters/producers for reading this drivel out.
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Originally posted by JFLL View PostThe tweets are obviously just read out to make Tom (or Tim), Dick and Harry feel wanted (just as RC always gives us a 'very warm welcome', as though he was inviting us in for a mince pie and a glass of punch), to mitigate the alleged 'dauntingness' of classical music. But the danger is that it prompts the question, if you don't happen to be that particular Tom, Dick or Harry, 'Who cares what they think?' So 'inclusivity' may be counter-productive.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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