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  • Bryn
    Banned
    • Mar 2007
    • 24688

    Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
    Suzy Klein made a big thing this morning of telling us how much she was looking forward to Sarah Walker presenting Sunday Morning (from 1 October, it turns out), thereby soothing the troubled breasts of her admirers. Of course no such comfort is on offer for those of us who enjoyed James Jolly and Jonathan Swain's programmes, and who have seen them unceremoniously ditched.
    Sarah's got something else on next Sunday. However, there is no Sunday 18th September 2017. Next Sunday is the 17th inst.

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    • cloughie
      Full Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 22127

      Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
      Suzy Klein made a big thing this morning of telling us how much she was looking forward to Sarah Walker presenting Sunday Morning (from 1 October, it turns out), thereby soothing the troubled breasts of her admirers. Of course no such comfort is on offer for those of us who enjoyed James Jolly and Jonathan Swain's programmes, and who have seen them unceremoniously ditched.
      It'll be fine, she's got good taste!

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26538

        Originally posted by french frank View Post
        Still here

        Merged threads and new title - the old one did put people off if they wanted to proclaim their enjoyment
        "...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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        • BBMmk2
          Late Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 20908

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Thanks FF!
          Don’t cry for me
          I go where music was born

          J S Bach 1685-1750

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          • Barbirollians
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 11700

            It is still a pile of rubbish and surely on the wrong station !

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22127

              Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
              It is still a pile of rubbish and surely on the wrong station !
              Were it Christmas, Barbs, no doubt you'd be drinking in the Bar Humbug!

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30302

                Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                It is still a pile of rubbish and surely on the wrong station !
                It wasn't that I disagree with you about the programme, Barbs (I don't). But the comment had been made - and I agreed with that too
                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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                • Stanfordian
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 9314

                  Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                  It is still a pile of rubbish and surely on the wrong station !
                  HIya Barbirollians,

                  The silly competitions, a growing tendency to play bleeding chunks of works, a band of irritating presenters gushing with superlatives and the cult of personalities as guests were the final nails in the coffin for me and I never listen to R3 anymore except for 'Private Passions' occasionally. I've never listened to a Proms concert ever and what is that 'Proms in Park' all about. I much prefer to keep diligently about my reviewing and reporting activities, play my own extensive collection and attend concerts and opera when something appeals. Sadly there is little recital activity left in my neck of the woods; which is some thing I badly miss.

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                  • Barbirollians
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 11700

                    Originally posted by french frank View Post
                    It wasn't that I disagree with you about the programme, Barbs (I don't). But the comment had been made - and I agreed with that too

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                    • Ein Heldenleben
                      Full Member
                      • Apr 2014
                      • 6788

                      One thing I have noticed is that SK seems to play a lot more slow , mediative pieces than RC used to. Is this because of
                      - sampling error on my part ?
                      - a reflection of the differing personalities and musical tastes of the two presenters?
                      - a conscious attempt by the establishment to calm us all down in anticipation of a hard or indeed no Brexit ?
                      - or to make austerity more palatable ? Without getting too Adorno to distract us from our historic purpose etc.?
                      Seriously though now we have the Classic FM filler Bolero - a piece my wife instantly said should be banned .

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                      • Bax-of-Delights
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 745

                        SK tells us that she hasn't heard "Bolero" for years.
                        She hasn't been listening to R3 then.
                        O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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                        • Ein Heldenleben
                          Full Member
                          • Apr 2014
                          • 6788

                          The best Bolero I have heard was the one in the superb R4 documentary Tom-tickety-Tom. In it orchestra players comment on the piece as it unfolds - not always favourably . The great Jack Brymer , LSO principal clarinet, memorably described the climax as like "being hit on the back of the head by a sock full of wet sand ."

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                          • Bryn
                            Banned
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 24688

                            Originally posted by Heldenleben View Post
                            The best Bolero I have heard was the one in the superb R4 documentary Tom-tickety-Tom. In it orchestra players comment on the piece as it unfolds - not always favourably . The great Jack Brymer , LSO principal clarinet, memorably described the climax as like "being hit on the back of the head by a sock full of wet sand ."
                            Bobby McFerrin and the Wiener Philhamoniker for me.

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                            • BBMmk2
                              Late Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 20908

                              Great to hear Carillon de Westminster this morning.

                              BTW I absolutely loathe Ravel's Bolero. Just a steady monotonous dirge.
                              Don’t cry for me
                              I go where music was born

                              J S Bach 1685-1750

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                              • french frank
                                Administrator/Moderator
                                • Feb 2007
                                • 30302

                                Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                                Bobby McFerrin and the Wiener Philhamoniker for me.
                                You dislike the piece that much, do you, Bryn?
                                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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