'Why Music?' weekend

[french frank]

It's been remarked that early signs of The New Season are now appearing in the schedule. The short weekend series 'Why Music' is focusing on music and the brain. The original press details are here.

The weekend 'mini-immersion' is on the lines of the Barbican Total Immersion composer programmes that have been held … when? over the New Year?

Some regular programming will be interrupted, but if this is an alternative approach to "Composer Z - every note he wrote, broadcast round-the-clock for the next month" there may be fewer criticisms on losing the odd favourite. So far, programmes for 10.30am and 11.30am for Saturday and Sunday [26/27 Sept] have been released.

NB It seems as if the reported 'tingle factor' feature on Breakfast is loosely connected :-/

[mercia]

yes, I'm looking forward to "the longest single continuous piece of music ever broadcast live on the BBC", and if I sleep through it, all the better apparently

[french frank]

yes, I'm looking forward to "the longest single continuous piece of music ever broadcast live on the BBC", and if I sleep through it, all the better apparently

All sounds very Third Programme …

[doversoul1]

I hope this series will be successful (by whatever standard) and in the future, Radio3 will be given opportunities to produce its own research based, speciality programmes about music itself.

[LeMartinPecheur]

'Why Music?' weekend

No interest in this, or is everyone too engrossed to type?

I tuned in hoping to add to what I'd already learned from this http://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Your-Br...brain+on+music Not many huge revelations so far, but it seemed somehow shocking that congenitally deaf mothers still croon to their babies.

I've found the current programme by Richard Kogan on the psychiatry of Schumann and Rachmaninov etc very interesting, and in the former case horrifying.

Can't wait for tomorrow's bit on the Tingle Factor

[visualnickmos]

No interest in this, or is everyone too engrossed to type?

I tuned in hoping to add to what I'd already learned from this http://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Your-Br...brain+on+music Not many huge revelations so far, but it seemed somehow shocking that congenitally deaf mothers still croon to their babies.

I've found the current programme by Richard Kogan on the psychiatry of Schumann and Rachmaninov etc very interesting, and in the former case horrifying.

Can't wait for tomorrow's bit on the Tingle Factor

I came across this about halfway in, so I'll do a "listen again" over the next couple of days. It certainly grabbed my interest, so I'm looking forward to this....

[french frank]

No interest in this, or is everyone too engrossed to type?

I received an email this morning from someone saying M du Sautoy's talk (serialism?) was very interesting. But there was a thread about WM? somewhere (before it started).

[Nick Armstrong]

Tuned in to some of the chatter this morning, agreed that the revelation/duration ratio was disappointing. I was interested in the way the string opening of Tchaik 6/iv was constructed (didn't know that before), and loved the Gurney song performed by Anna Tilbrook, James Gilchrist and the Fitzwilliams - but then I could have picked those up from a BAL on Tchaik 6 and a standard CD Review Bit too much superficial bla-bla (as always with the improvised programmes in coffee shops). Needless to say I'm avoiding the bumptious know-it-all blether of the preposterous Mr Ibragimova who featured at 1, I see, and seems set to dominate the evening proceedings.

Above all, I also agree about this afternoon's Schumann/Rach programme. Some fascinating fleshing-out of what one vaguely knew already. I'm recording it all and heard 45 minutes of the Schumann segment ending with the Fantasie extract. Once I got over the impression that Woody Allen was presenting a serious programme on R3 (which was easy to do given the interest of the subject matter), it was a massive improvement on the usual celeb-led Saturday afternoon classics-lite.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

My reactions have been similar to how I've responded to the "monthly immersions" in the past - there's just too much of it concentrated into a single weekend. If the programmes had been spread over a month, I'd have more time to take in and absorb what's being said - AND there would have been less damage done to the regular schedules - which Why-chromosomed twerp decided it would be really good if the "New Season" began one week and then was instantly interrupted by this weekend!?

Some interesting factoids - and I loved the five-year-old's "Jumble Sale Blues" - some "No-dung-Sherlock" statements of the weeping obvious - but too much ryddu CHATTER.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh - and is this weekend really cheaper to make than a series of Discovering Music?

[Nick Armstrong]

Agree with all that Ferney, too.

Mind you the Words and Music looks a bit of alright

"Tamsin Greig and Alex Jennings read texts on the power of music, from Shakespeare to PG Wodehouse, St Augustine to Proust, and Baudelaire...."

Some major favourites in there

I'll be saving that for later. (That's how I avoid the 'immersion' effect... That W&M will be good for a car journey (like the other 50 or so I have downloaded )

[subcontrabass]

Mr Ibragimova

He was Doctored in 2004.

[Nick Armstrong]

He was Doctored in 2004.

Bravo that vet!

[Pianorak]

Listened with interest to the talk on 12-tone music, which confirmed my suspicion that it has everything to do with mathematics and nothing whatsoever with music.

[Serial_Apologist]

Listened with interest to the talk on 12-tone music, which confirmed my suspicion that it has everything to do with mathematics and nothing whatsoever with music.

Seriously? (Or maybe that should be "serialsly?")

If so I'm glad I missed it, as it wouldn't have done my ticker any good at all!