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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostI think I'd be the same if I were as knowledgeable as Rob but had to demean myself in order to keep my job.
It was simply a new job description bolted onto the existing format which neither RC nor SW is particularly equipped for.
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostKnowledgeable in RC's case a given. But interviewing is a very particular set of skills, involving listening, responding, not just ploughing through a set list of clunky questions.... Look no further than Michael Berkeley, AMcG (most of the time), or just across the corridor at Kirsty Young....Discussions on CDR, no problem, but outside the comfort zone (e.g. writing,cooking, gardening....)
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostIt was simply a new job description bolted onto the existing format which neither RC nor SW is particularly equipped for.
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amateur51
Originally posted by JFLL View PostYes. Of course they could keep the half-hour interview slot (if they must) but give it to people who were good at interviewing. But that would be anathema, because of the idea that it it is Rob's or Sarah's 'show', and that takes precedence over common sense. Gleichschaltung rules.
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The thing is, if the half-hour interview were not a regular part of Essential Classics, there wouldn't be any justification at all for having a Masterchef judge being interviewed on Radio 3. We have an hour-long Private Passions. Why have an inferior Private Passions taking up over two hours a week?
Think of the interview as a self-justifying, self-standing programme five days a week and there would be no place for it on Radio 3. Clamp it into a rigid daily format - presenter, artist of the week, guest, brainteaser and whatever other clever idea they've thought up ("Five reasons to Love ...') and it becomes accepted.
Essential Classics as a programme is as appalling as its unoriginal title and mostly a waste of 3 hours broadcasting a day. But that's just the view of someone who isn't the target audience of Breakfast/Radio4 Today listener.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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Very surprised that James May didn't know and had never heard Holst's Beni Mora Suite - the unannounced "gift" from RC this morning. While it doesn't appear on R3 as often as some of the lollipops that churn around I would have thought it might have surfaced more than a few times in May's listening career.O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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HARRIET HAVARD
Wonderful news. Next week will be film music week on EC. And we are promised it will include the Dam Busters March..... Can't wait.
Would love to know what R3 in general, and this programme in particular, now see as the core audiance. Mogadon Man/Woman presumably!
Pass the valium.
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Penn Igor
Originally posted by HARRIET HAVARD View PostWonderful news. Next week will be film music week on EC. And we are promised it will include the Dam Busters March..... Can't wait.
Would love to know what R3 in general, and this programme in particular, now see as the core audiance. Mogadon Man/Woman presumably!
Pass the valium.
Given what the staff/presenters have done to our beloved R3, difficult to know where you would start to sort the poor wretched thing out. Trouble is the rot goes right through the BBC, from top to bottom.
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Originally posted by zola View Post"Sarah's Essential Choice" today is Beethoven's Grosse Fugue. Can't really object to the Grosse Fugue being played BUT two hours later in the lunchtime concert there is a performance of Beethoven's Grosse Fugue. Not much co-ordination there.
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Don Petter
Originally posted by zola View Post"Sarah's Essential Choice" today is Beethoven's Grosse Fugue. Can't really object to the Grosse Fugue being played BUT two hours later in the lunchtime concert there is a performance of Beethoven's Grosse Fugue. Not much co-ordination there.
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Originally posted by Don Petter View PostEven less than that! It was also played in Tuesday's Lunchtime Concert, albeit in the two piano arrangement.
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