Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostPerhaps this belongs in a PM, but where does all this leave our esteemed Controller? Has he abandoned ship altogether? Hard to imagine that EC could be so much worse than before the recent changes, but it undoubtedly is.
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Originally posted by french frank View Post
But more importantly here : I think the 'new' Essential Classics is about the worst thing to have happened to Radio 3 in years. It is of course at its worst with the smarm schmaltz and sentimental simpering of Rob Cowan - but even with the better presenters it is dreck. Still, I have been re-discovering some of the wonderful CDs on the shelves here which I had almost forgotten...
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostI suspect he's now being revealed in his true colours.
Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostIIRC, he has fewer classical music industry credentials than his predecessor.
Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostIMO, he has either been got at by BBC bigwigs who demand that he plays the numbers game, or he is showing his true demotic leanings.Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostAlternatively, he sincerely believes that EC is the epitome of high culture!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 Brassbandmaestro View PostWould light amusement do then?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 pastoralguy View PostAlthough I don't contact the programme, I do try to imagine what the most inappropriate piece would be! How about Strauss' 'Metamorphsen' as a companion to the Thunder and lightning polka?
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Originally posted by ahinton View PostDon't give them ideas! Link-speak is presumably often involved and, in this instance, a golden opportunity for it would be "Strauss", since I imagine it unlikely that Dresdner Blitzen would occur to any presenter of that programme...
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 PostProbably the same person from yesterday who suggested John Adams (Short Ride in a Fast Machine?) as the follow-up to Bach's B minor Mass.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Here we are, getting drawn into the Radio 3 Ministry of Silly Ideas, discussing what might be a good companion piece, when the pieces in question are either
(a) movements from longer works, in which case the intended companion pieces already exist, or
(b) works that exist in their own right, so don't need a companion piece.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostI think that's a bit unfair. His major (I think) interest has been literary, and I think we've had some interesting results in that field.
In my view, though, it isn't necessary for the boss man to know his stuff. He employs underlings to do the main business. So far, he's relied on RW's employees.
This is what I feared - that in the end others at the BBC, cultural nonentities, call the shots. The controller is just the BBC's mouthpiece. N-n-n-oo. I don't theenk that's the case. It may not be to everyone's taste, but contemporary music has been creeping in to the daytime schedules, for example (we don't count A Short Ride - that was one of the children's Ten Pieces). What is the case is that Essential Classics is getting steadily more stupid.
But what will our response be if the number of listeners grows significantly .... ????
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Originally posted by antongould View PostBut what will our response be if the number of listeners grows significantly .... ????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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