Saturday Classics/Inside Music

[doversoul1]

Complete armatures - how wholly fitting.

As there are amazing amateurs in every field, I rephrase it as untrained or unskilled in radio broadcasting (clueless is what I really mean). I didn’t listen to Saturday Classics very often but my impression was that it was the contents that I didn’t value while most ‘guests’ sounded well experienced in speaking into a microphone.

(ed.) duly corrected (Re: #347)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

As there are amazing armatures in every field, I rephrase it as untrained or unskilled in radio broadcasting (clueless is what I really mean). I didn’t listen to Saturday Classics very often but my impression was that it was the contents that I didn’t value while most ‘guests’ sounded well experienced in speaking into a microphone.

Unless I'm missing an excellent pun, I think you mean "amateurs", dovers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armatu...l_engineering)

[french frank]

Bit of a technicality, perhaps , but I note that both guests so far (as is next week's guest, Nicholas Collon) are at the very low end of the 'replenisher' group (35-54) which Radio 3 is seeking to attract. Does this, at all, affect their choice of music?

[doversoul1]

Unless I'm missing an excellent pun, I think you mean "amateurs", dovers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armatu...l_engineering)

Blame Windows' spell check

[LMcD]

Unless I'm missing an excellent pun, I think you mean "amateurs", dovers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armatu...l_engineering)

(Already noted in #343!)

[french frank]

(Already noted in #343!)

Too subtle.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(Already noted in #343!)

I'd noticed - but as there was a repetition of the error in reply to #343, I wondered if I was missing a point.

[doversoul1]

I'd noticed - but as there was a repetition of the error in reply to #343, I wondered if I was missing a point.

Let’s not divert

[oddoneout]

Noticed in my freebie weekend Observer
"Radio 3 has some new shows; the one that has caught my attention is Inside Music, in which performers talk about music that has inspired them and explain its workings. A tricky brief, well launched by percussionist Colin Currie with an eclectic selection from Gruber, Reich, and Bartok. Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen and conductor Nicholas Collon follow." Nicholas Kenyon


It's the use of the word 'shows' that bothers me. Call me old-fashioned but I thought R3 had programmes......'Shows' conjures up a whole other type of offering, one which generally I avoid as much as possible.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Noticed in my freebie weekend Observer
"Radio 3 has some new shows; the one that has caught my attention is Inside Music, in which performers talk about music that has inspired them and explain its workings. A tricky brief, well launched by percussionist Colin Currie with an eclectic selection from Gruber, Reich, and Bartok. Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen and conductor Nicholas Collon follow." Nicholas Kenyon
It's the use of the word 'shows' that bothers me. Call me old-fashioned but I thought R3 had programmes......'Shows' conjures up a whole other type of offering, one which generally I avoid as much as possible.

This trend began when Spirit of the Age was downgraded to The Early Music Show. The name of the Controller responsible for this escapes me for the moment.

[LMcD]

Today's guest presenter (she's a REAL gabbler, I'm afraid) has just told us that, in 'Erlkoenig', father and son are walking, which hardly squares with the German 'Wer reitet so schnell'. Presumably this means that they get caught more easily.....

[doversoul1]

Today's guest presenter (she's a REAL gabbler, I'm afraid) has just told us that, in 'Erlkoenig', father and son are walking, which hardly squares with the German 'Wer reitet so schnell'. Presumably this means that they get caught more easily.....

I suppose sopranos don’t often get to perform it

[oddoneout]

Today's guest presenter (she's a REAL gabbler, I'm afraid) has just told us that, in 'Erlkoenig', father and son are walking, which hardly squares with the German 'Wer reitet so schnell'. Presumably this means that they get caught more easily.....

Only 3 pieces of music listed on the schedule, none of them Erlkoenig....Why the problem putting up the full list in a timely fashion?

[french frank]

Only 3 pieces of music listed on the schedule, none of them Erlkoenig....Why the problem putting up the full list in a timely fashion?

'S the weekend. No one to sort out the glitches.

[doversoul1]

Not directly related to this thread but I imagine it comes from the same place; we were told after the one o'clock news by an announcer, Mark Forest, that he would be guiding us through the afternoon entertainment.