Originally posted by french frank
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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostOut of interest, is it cheaper to have it produced by a production company than in house ?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 french frank View PostCan't really give an authoritative reply, but I doubt the BBC could do it cheaper than what they pay an indie, for this kind of programme.
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As I don't have quite the same level of antipathy towards the morning offerings as the commenters here have I've been prepared to listen as usual to see how things bed down.Initial reaction is that it isn't worse but it isn't better. Some things which irritated have gone but may have been replaced with others.
Classic FM is not for me an alternative as I can't stand the advert interruptions and jingles(although it has to be said R3 is getting quite close at times with its trailers now) and although I have the radio on when I'm around but don't always give it my full attention I don't regard it as background music. If I'm not actively listening it's because I don't want to listen to that item. In the same way, for the recitals, concerts etc later in the day/evening I will switch off, turn down or do something else for things I don't want to listen to. And I happen to like the progression through the day of the different types of programmes. But what I would not want is for there to be a 'creep' of the style of the morning programmes into the later ones, whether that be unsuitable presenters, listener 'participation' or whatever.
There are things about the current R3 which I find do not bear comparison with years ago or the Third Programme, but I'm grateful that it still exists at all, together with the various BBC orchestras etc. I work in a museum and face a somewhat similar situation with changes in approach to display and interpretation and the attracting of visitors(audience). There may be things I dislike or find regrettable, but they enable the place to stay open and thus available for those who do want something a bit more challenging.
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Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View PostThe Sunday morning offerings, I thought were trash, to say the least! What were they thinking about?[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Oh! Looking at the playlist, I see that the programme started with stuff by Lloyd-Banker! "Trash to say the least" indeed - and no doubt casting a sour taste over the remainder of the programme for those who heard it. Still - as effective as prunes with All-Bran for that time on a Sunday Morning.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostOh! Looking at the playlist, I see that the programme started with stuff by Lloyd-Banker! "Trash to say the least" indeed - and no doubt casting a sour taste over the remainder of the programme for those who heard it. Still - as effective as prunes with All-Bran for that time on a Sunday Morning.
Make the most of it - if they're shaking the programme up, will it be better or worse?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 french frank View PostApart from the opening NumBah - Motschmann, Telemann, R Strauss, Rebecca Clarke, Shosta, Galuppi, Stravinsky. … ?
Make the most of it - if they're shaking the programme up, will it be better or worse?[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostThere was a brief outbreak of marimbas, about which the less said the better."...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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Ferney, I pput this here, as I know we haven't a thread going on the Sunday morning equivalent.
I sent them a couple of tweets at my dismay for playing Andre Lloyd Webbers rocked up Paganini Variations, featuring his brother on cello, plus a most excruiating treatment of a work by Gesualdo.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750
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