In Tune

[eighthobstruction]

....tiddly bum tiddly bum....vast is the waiting wind where vengeance and erudition drums fingers ready to meet a silver opening....

[vinteuil]

....tiddly bum tiddly bum....vast is the waiting wind where vengeance and erudition drums fingers ready to meet a silver opening....

... got me in one, eighth o !

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[french frank]

I remembered we had discussion re Sean R once before and to save thinking up some new comment I'm just adding a link to my previous pronouncement on the subject:
http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...733#post835733

It does seem odd, though, that with all the regular "refreshings" of the schedule, some programmes/presenters remain exempt from refreshing for 25+ years. At the same time programmes like CD Masters, Discovering Music and Choir Works get swept away completely.

[oddoneout]

I remembered we had discussion re Sean R once before and to save thinking up some new comment I'm just adding a link to my previous pronouncement on the subject:
http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...733#post835733

There was discussion elsewhere at some stage because I mentioned then my concern about the interviewing of the young performers who struggled with his combination of Irish accent and rambling sentences. That doesn't seem to appear in the thread linked.
While ploughing through the posts I came across the one showing the Channel5 Chernobyl with Ben Fogle programme image and got a bit of a chill reading my comment on it

Well it's a tourist destination now, so there will be others to follow https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48943814
Mind you, Covid might not be the only slight problem, reading between the lines of "Current situation in Ukraine" on here https://www.chernobyl-tour.com/engli...n-ukraine.html

Anyway, it occurs to me that perhaps I should try an SR In Tune again and see if I revise my opinion of the interviewing matter; the guests and music have often been of interest so it's frustrating for both regular presenters to be disincentives to listening.

[hmvman]

...At the same time programmes like CD Masters, Discovering Music and Choir Works get swept away completely.

Surely "rested"

[johncorrigan]

I very much enjoyed this evening's mixtape put together by Rafferty for mental heath awareness week - very moving.

[Padraig]

One person's wittering(s) is others' repeatedly girning about it/them.

May I withdraw this peevish remark - a conditioned reflex to a distant period of presenter bashing. I'm sorry I succumbed once again.

[french frank]

Surely "rested"

I well remember a certain presenter describing how he felt when he was called into a controller's office and was told his programme was being 'rested': "And I have no plans to bring it back."

[eighthobstruction]

May I withdraw this peevish remark - a conditioned reflex to a distant period of presenter bashing. I'm sorry I succumbed once again.

....get in there gim a good ol'drossing....

[Old Grumpy]

I had no issue with him as a person and didn't doubt that he had many good qualities, but what made me give up was his excruciating interviewing.Long rambling sentences containing multiple questions were challenging enough for those with English as their first language, but combined with his accent they just floored the often young foreign performers he talked at in the studio and I found it all just too uncomfortable to listen to.

Can't say I noticed this much when I was a regular listener on the commute home. I do remember nearly crashing the car when he asked a french soprano* whether she was en-route to somewhere...

...much hilarity (on my part) when she misinterpreted this as Sean asking if she was en rut!



Edit: *Just remembered - this was she

[Serial_Apologist]

...much hilarity (on my part) when she misinterpreted this as Sean asking if she was en rut!

Does that mean "going to a stag party"?

[JasonPalmer]

In tune kicking off with some mozart, perfect, am making dinner...i wonder who will be the guests this evening, perhaps someone promoting a concert at wigmore hall again ?

[Padraig]

In tune kicking off with some mozart

Today it was Red Priest calling the tune for the Blacksmith and the Washerwoman in a neat performance. I caught it in passing and stopped to listen.

[TedandHelen]

I am a regular listener to the Mixtape and much appreciate half an hour of uninterrupted music - until recently. I find the station ident interruptions, 2 in the course of a half hour programme - thoroughly irritating, Why are they deemed necessary?

[Pulcinella]

I am a regular listener to the Mixtape and much appreciate half an hour of uninterrupted music - until recently. I find the station ident interruptions, 2 in the course of a half hour programme - thoroughly irritating, Why are they deemed necessary?

At least they break up the nanosecond between pieces in different keys, which is equally jarring (and a reason I don't usually listen, except recently as a 'warm up' to the Prom).