Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights
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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostAh, we've hit the motherload with the "follow on" feature. What could come next after Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours"?
There can be ONLY one response.
Allan Sherman. Come on in, your time is NOW.
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostWell. Who'd a thought it?
An indication that these pieces are chosen before the show and the hope is that someone emails or texts in the "correct" answer. And an imaginary name and email can always be shoe-horned in if no-one suggests the chosen one.
Too cynical?
But the evidence piles up.....
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Thinking about it further, I wonder whether this is in fact part of some great Pavlovian experiment being conducted by the BBC, along the following lines:
Every time Rob plays the Dance of the Hours (and he does it often enough), he mentions (and then plays) the Sherman.
After some years of this, Suzy plays the Dance of the Hours without mentioning the Sherman, and the researchers sit back and count off the number of listeners who tail-waggingly email, tweet and text saying 'YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THAT WITH THE SHERMAN'.
Incidentally, in her pre-show chat with Petroc, Suzy patronisingly said that we would know the Dance of the Hours even if we didn't think we did, thereby provoking in me the Pavlovian reaction of speechless, foaming rage.
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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostI made this suggestion some pages back, and it was at that time suggested that, having been bitten on the backside by various competition scandals in the past, the BBC would never allow it. And that the suggestion had been raised, and indignantly denied, on air by Suzy or Rob.
But the evidence piles up.....
I know this because I once wrote something scathing here AND emailed in to accuse the programme of … something, and I had a very indignant reply from the producer saying it had been nothing of the sort, very indignant at what I had suggested hereIt 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 underthecountertenor View PostI had naively hoped that, this one being not on Rob Cowan's watch....
I see I shall have to add further names. Not that the prayers were often efficacious...
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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostI made this suggestion some pages back, and it was at that time suggested that, having been bitten on the backside by various competition scandals in the past, the BBC would never allow it. And that the suggestion had been raised, and indignantly denied, on air by Suzy or Rob.
But the evidence piles up.....
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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostSuzy patronisingly said that we would know the Dance of the Hours even if we didn't think we did
Suzy has obviously taught her children the hilarious words to the Sherman song: but would she have known which classical piece it was based on if someone hadn't told her? After Dvořák's Ma Vlast, that confident air of knowing more than her listeners - even about the Alps - begins to crumbleIt 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 ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostAND Debussy's Bambi!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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I emailed the programme to ask what was the rationale for a classical music station suggesting a good follow-up to the Ponchielli would be 'Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh'? [Don't tell me: it's Ho! Ho! Ho! time ]
Actually, having listened to a clip, I wouldn't be 100% sure that Suzy wasn't trying to make the best of an embarrassing momentIt 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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