Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[french frank]

So what do prizenterz do for the rest of the time? As far as I can see, it's very little.

Perhaps a brief appearance on a trailer, for a gushing moment and a chummy conversation. Otherwise...?

In fairness, freelance presenters are paid for what they do - and what they're contracted to do. What they do for the rest of their day/month/year is up to them.

[underthecountertenor]

In fairness, freelance presenters are paid for what they do - and what they're contracted to do. What they do for the rest of their day/month/year is up to them.

Quite so. Ian Skelly, for example, has a lot of irons in the fire, according to his page on his agent's website.

[LMcD]

If certain contributors to this thread are to be believed, poor old Petroc presumably spends some of his time attending a clinic for people with respiratory problems.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

If certain contributors to this thread are to be believed, poor old Petroc presumably spends some of his time attending a clinic for people with respiratory problems.

I'm sorry. I should have realised.

[peterthekeys]

That's right she does sing it well but Judy Collins is a singer.

Oh yes! (When I first came across her album "Bread and Roses", I noticed that the last item was "King David". And yes, it was "King David" by Howells, and although she took a few liberties with it, her rendition of it was very convincing and moving.)

[oddoneout]

" The music mix for your morning" - according to a promo today on the Sunday - 'music interspersed with intelligent comment' - Morning programme.

[french frank]

" The music mix for your morning" -

Instant alienation. It isn't the music mix for my morning. It's exactly what I wouldn't listen to unless it was on at the dentist, the doctors' surgery, the supermarket, the pub &c and there was no choice. I know, I know, it wouldn't be on in those places. But even if it were, I would try to block it from my consciousness. The mix is what I don't like. Curated or just thrown together to fit the time available (wash my mouth out with soap and water).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Instant alienation. It isn't the music mix for my morning. It's exactly what I wouldn't listen to unless it was on at the dentist, the doctors' surgery, the supermarket, the pub &c and there was no choice. I know, I know, it wouldn't be on in those places. But even if it were, I would try to block it from my consciousness. The mix is what I don't like. Curated or just thrown together to fit the time available (wash my mouth out with soap and water).

"Curated" is a term used as a substitute for "I know better than you".

[oddoneout]

It did occur to me that 'mash-up' might be considered by many to be a better term than 'mix'?

[Richard Tarleton]

- 'music interspersed with intelligent comment'

After, or rather during , the selection of Dowland pieces played by Nigel North, a listener found it necessary to email in to remind us of Sting's 2006 effort. Sting merely sang [sic] on that, the lute being played by Edin Karamazov. Sting certainly bought himself a load of lutes (long-necked ones, of course, as befits an old rocker, not period-appropriate Renaissance ones, there was a picture of him with them in a weekend supplement profile at the time), but his playing of them was fairly rudimentary. So not really relevant. Personally, I wouldn't have read that out without pointing this out, but Sarah presumably has to humour the audience, not educate them.

[underthecountertenor]

This whole page appears to belong on the Sunday Morning thread rather than here.

[french frank]

This whole page appears to belong on the Sunday Morning thread rather than here.

Hard to tell the difference.

[underthecountertenor]

Well, one is called Essential Classics, and the other is called Sunday Morning, just for starters. I could go on, but I will leave that to others better qualified (at going on).

[oddoneout]

This whole page appears to belong on the Sunday Morning thread rather than here.

Well, not the whole page....? My #3201 was about an EC promo heard on Sunday, and some at least of the subsequent comments relate to the phrase quoted.

[antongould]

Hard to tell the difference.

Easy ff one has Skellers the other doesn’t