Originally posted by french frank
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Perhaps one of the problems here is that the very fact that there is little evidence of stylistic commonality in R3 presentation and that there are such diversities of approach between presenters is one reason why the very sense of "presenter styles" has risen to the fore to the extent that it has done, but then that's in part a symptom of the personality cult stuff that many of us either take or leave for granted, n'est-ce pas? I think that it goes farther than this, too - although, in so saying, I am perhaps revealing a personal prejudice - in that, for example, if asked to "say" something about my work, I tend to come across as reticent, not so much by reson of wishing to be secretive but because I don't feel that I have much to say and that if it's not all there in the music itself I've failed anyway; this may not be an especially apposite analogy, but I think that it may at least have some validity in the context of this issue.
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