Saturday Classics/Inside Music

[french frank]

Returning, then, to Saturday Classics : It was so. I checked to see whether it was or not and it was. The hall, we were told, was almost packed full, 'sitting room only' (So all the standing seats had gone?)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The hall, we were told, was almost packed full, 'sitting room only' (So all the standing seats had gone?)

[Honoured Guest]

The hall, we were told, was almost packed full, 'sitting room only' (So all the standing seats had gone?)

Saturday Classics came live from the RWCMD Foyer, overlooking Bute Park, and not from a hall.

[vinteuil]

The hall, we were told, was almost packed full, 'sitting room only' (So all the standing seats had gone?)

... wot, no misericords left?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misericord

.

http://www.misericords.co.uk/

[teamsaint]

Returning, then, to Saturday Classics : It was so. I checked to see whether it was or not and it was. The hall, we were told, was almost packed full, 'sitting room only' (So all the standing seats had gone?)

Back in the days when we had a choice of terracing or stands, people used to sit in the stands.

[cloughie]

Back in the days when we had a choice of terracing or stands, people used to sit in the stands.

...and now away crowds stand in the seated areas....

[teamsaint]

...and now away crowds Stan in the seated areas...

And you get your own fans moaning at you if you want to actually sit down and watch the game in the hideously overpriced seat.

Actually they all stand up in a lot of the home areas of the stadia too.
Bonkers.

[french frank]

Saturday Classics came live from the RWCMD Foyer, overlooking Bute Park, and not from a hall.

Thank you - always good to get information first hand. Actually, there didn't seem to be that many people packing it full - and the people at the back seem to be watching something else. However, they did give a pretty hearty 'Hello, Mum' cheer when invited to do so.

[doversoul1]

1 August

(not sure if this is the right place)
In advance of her appearance at the Royal Albert Hall to present the BBC 6Music Prom, Mary Anne Hobbs presents two hours of music that traverses the boundaries between classical music and the so-called 'New Classical'. Mary Anne's third appearance on Saturday Classics includes composers such as Arvo Pärt, Debussy, Bach, Guillaume de Machaut, Liszt, Philip Glass and Saint-Saens. She also includes works by the 6Music Prom performers, Nils Frahm and A Winged Victory for the Sullen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0659cbn

This seems to suggest that the purpose of this Prom is to broaden the minds of classical music listeners (to whose benefit?) rather than introducing classical music to wider audiences. Putting aside the question of whether the Proms should be doing this, why isn’t the BBC honest about it instead of pretending it to be the other way round?

And what is so-called New Classical?

[french frank]

The programme, then, is being used as a promo for the Prom.

And what is so-called New Classical?

Nils Frahm appears to be one, featuring at the 6 Music Prom. Not sure who calls it 'New Classical'. I'd call it Soft New 'classical'. If you like Arvo Pärt and Philip Glass, you'll love this … ?

Einaudi is included in this list.

[Serial_Apologist]

(not sure if this is the right place)
In advance of her appearance at the Royal Albert Hall to present the BBC 6Music Prom, Mary Anne Hobbs presents two hours of music that traverses the boundaries between classical music and the so-called 'New Classical'. Mary Anne's third appearance on Saturday Classics includes composers such as Arvo Pärt, Debussy, Bach, Guillaume de Machaut, Liszt, Philip Glass and Saint-Saens. She also includes works by the 6Music Prom performers, Nils Frahm and A Winged Victory for the Sullen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0659cbn

This seems to suggest that the purpose of this Prom is to broaden the minds of classical music listeners (to whose benefit?) rather than introducing classical music to wider audiences. Putting aside the question of whether the Proms should be doing this, why isn’t the BBC honest about it instead of pretending it to be the other way round?

And what is so-called New Classical?

And what's this "...includes composers such as...", which one sees and hears more and more in these slapdash editorial days? Composers with two arms, two legs, and various other anatomical peculiarities that prove them to be composers "such as" these? Or did Part, Debussy, Bach, Machaut, Liszt, Glass and Saint-Saens have something else in common as composers that I am unaware of?

[doversoul1]

Or did Part, Debussy, Bach, Machaut, Liszt, Glass and Saint-Saens have something else in common as composers that I am unaware of?

They aren’t often heard on BBC 6Music?

[Serial_Apologist]

They aren’t often heard on BBC 6Music?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I honestly don't know what these R3 planners think they're doing.

The distressing thing is that I don't think they know either.


Dear Radio 6,

I want you be my friend on Facebook. Before I didn't mind not having very many friends, but now people have started bullying me.

Please, please, Radio 6.

love and hugs,

Radio 3

[doversoul1]

Katie Derham: 17th October

Katie Derham presents a selection of classical music inspired by dance, from the Viennese Waltz to the Argentine Tango, and reflects on her Strictly Come Dancing experience so far.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06h8lqt

Go for it (whatever it is) Katie and don’t worry anymore about a boring job like presenting concerts.

Seriously, if this programme is open to Radio3 presenters, can we please have Jonathan Swain to begin with (yes, I know I am missing the point...)?