In Tune

[Nick Armstrong]

that was a major story today - as you probably know
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-maga...nitor-22765498

[teamsaint]

Ok, it has to be asked, did any of us tweet raffers with our favourite bearded composer today?

[Old Grumpy]

No (I don't tweet, only grunt!)...

...but I did enjoy the reworking of Debussy's La Mer by Sally Beamish as realised by the Trusler Carroll Wass Trio.


Apparently their Lincoln gig is to be recorded for broadcast on R3 - I look forward to that. Not sure if it will be this one though.


OG

[amateur51]

fair comment.

more big cash prizes would be good though !!!

I wonder if, in clearing out cupboards in BBC Television Centre they found any of the wonderfully naff sets of luggage that Les Dawson used to mention almost sotto voce as 'tonight's star prizes' on Blankety Blank

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHIWOzDlVmo

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

is any one listening to this painful crap; this bloke is dreadful 'Fred' whatsit or something .... tuneless talentless humourless inept [he was rude about jazz too!] ... a lapse of taste and standards and oh so painful ... on when i left for the shops and still there when i returned ... just truly truly awful [must be breabach from this]

[Bryn]

is any one listening to this painful crap; this bloke is dreadful 'Fred' whatsit or something .... tuneless talentless humourless inept [he was rude about jazz too!] ... a lapse of taste and standards and oh so painful ... on when i left for the shops and still there when i returned ... just truly truly awful [must be breabach from this]

Serves you right. You should have been listening to Dolly Parton's Jolene at 74% speed on Radio 4's PM. Worth catching on the iPlayer when it's ready. Right at the end of the programme.

No Fred listed, by the way. I guess I will have to wait for the iPlayer for that too.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Serves you right. You should have been listening to Dolly Parton's Jolene at 74% speed on Radio 4's PM. Worth catching on the iPlayer when it's ready.

- a remarkable sound, giving the song a quite hypnotic pathos. So glad I caught it as I washed the dishes.

[Nick Armstrong]

is any one listening to this painful crap; this bloke is dreadful 'Fred' whatsit or something .... tuneless talentless humourless inept [he was rude about jazz too!] ... a lapse of taste and standards and oh so painful ... on when i left for the shops and still there when i returned ... just truly truly awful [must be breabach from this]

Who the heck was it?

[Tony Halstead]

Who the heck was it?

Dunno who or what it was but it was truly dreadful, totally 'talentless' and maybe the worst In Tune I have ever heard...

[Old Grumpy]

Dunno who or what it was but it was truly dreadful, totally 'talentless'

Although possibly representative of quite a lot of the "Fringe"

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

"there's live musical comedy from The Horne Section fresh from the Fringe" ????????

[Nick Armstrong]

is any one listening to this painful crap; this bloke is dreadful 'Fred' whatsit or something .... tuneless talentless humourless inept [he was rude about jazz too!] ... a lapse of taste and standards and oh so painful ... on when i left for the shops and still there when i returned ... just truly truly awful [must be breabach from this]

Had a listen, couldn't hear anyone called Fred. There was someone blithering on and on called... Sean, or something...

[Black Swan]

I didn't hear yesterday's but gave up on Thursday with the Spooky Men's Chorale. I am sure that there of fans out there somewhere but not me.

[mw963]

I'm afraid the afternoon slot on Radio 3 ceased to matter to me with the arrival of "Mainly For Pleasure".

I would only start listening again if "Homeward Bound" was re-introduced.

There, I daresay none of you know what I'm talking about....!!

(It should though be obvious from that that I am an ex Radio Three listener. I stopped listening in 1992 when it was vandalised by Kenyon. The only exception I make is for Choral Evensong).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm afraid the afternoon slot on Radio 3 ceased to matter to me with the arrival of "Mainly For Pleasure".

I would only start listening again if "Homeward Bound" was re-introduced.

There, I daresay none of you know what I'm talking about....!!

You underestimate your fellow Forumites there, mw - not least the estimable member stillhomewardbound!
Sadly, I fear that there is little chance that R3 in its current identity crisis would even consider broadcasting a programme that didn't involve flushloads of verbal comment and chatter between "items" of Music.