New Year New Music

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Terrific news (thought there is still a bit of compromise in evidence: Saturday Classics is still with us).

[mercia]

once the week in question has past normal service will resume

[french frank]

once the week in question has past normal service will resume

I wouldn't bank on it. In 2016 Radio 3 is celebrating the launch of the Third Programme - so you may have to wait a year for normal service . If they haven't forgotten how to do 'normal'!

[Serial_Apologist]

The Early Music Show’s contribution

Sunday 3 January
Stevie Wishart presents a special New Year New Music programme. She takes a look at how early music still resonates through the contemporary music of our time. She will feature her own compositions as well as recordings of music performed by a young performers such as Voice Trio. Voice performs secular and non-secular music from the medieval music of Hildegard of Bingen, to 21st-century commissions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tk6y3

Thanks Dovers. Stevie Wishart's great. You might well find yourselves getting turned onto free improvised music, in which she is very much involved - as well as being on some of my fave recordings.

[Daniel]

This certainly seems to suggest some positive thinking about new music is going on in places of influence, which in itself is pretty encouraging. Bonne santé, Radio 3!

[Roehre]

...Stevie Wishart's great. You might well find yourselves getting turned onto free improvised music, in which she is very much involved - as well as being on some of my fave recordings.

This Christmas CD with medieval English Music is one of them

[BBMmk2]

Can't wait fopr this this to happen! Yes the general media will have their reaction and most likely will be protesting about it but hey ho they can say what they like!

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm surprised no one has commented on the genuine abundance of listenable broadcasting on today.

I can't remember when last I had the radio close to hand for everything, starting with Robert Saxton talking to two student composers about them and their music, illustrated by works by people other than himself that he felt useful models for the budding composer of today. One comment said a lot, to me - namely when Saxton said words to the effect that it is no longer style which concerns him or her, since there no longer exists any orthodoxy to be adhered to, but putting down notes in the right places. It had me thinking: yes, but the results in much so-called "new music" seem to have come to mean an over-emphasis on safety, whereas in the days when serialism was presented as one orthodoxy to be at least taken on board, the results were more challenging to listener expectations and came up with new expressive means which probably wouldn't have happened otherwise, habits of thought being what they are. In drawing the discussion to a close Saxton commented on the limited academic openings for composition studies today, given the fees and costs involved, and this was most timely.

This was followed by Tansy Davies offering us her wonderful selection of new or newish music that has impressed her. The only piece that failed in that respect for me was the first, reinforcing for me the feeling that modernist composers who take up on Minimalist procedures, unless either like David Bedford and Tim Souster they arrived simultaneously at them autonomously, or filtered by way of jazz and fusion, tend to do their own individuality a disservice.

Sound of Cinema, for once, was interesting, complying with the week's theme of novelty by dealing as it did with the innovative techniques movie composers have adapted into their scores.

Hear and Now looks promising for later, including a Birtwistle string quartet that is new to me.

[Beef Oven!]

How do we feed back to the BBC that scheduling H&N at 10.00 on a Saturday night is wrong. Many people watch MOTD, or are still in the pub. Why don't they change it to a sensible time either very late at night, or very early in the morning?

[MrGongGong]

Many people watch MOTD,

??

What on earth are you on about now?

http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/concerts/music_of_today

Now if this was on TV

[Beef Oven!]

??

What on earth are you on about now?

http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/concerts/music_of_today

Now if this was on TV

Match Of The Day. Gets about 3-4 million viewers.

[MrGongGong]

Match Of The Day. Gets about 3-4 million viewers.

Nope, never watched it.
I hope you aren't conflating popularity with quality ?

[Serial_Apologist]

Match Of The Day. Gets about 3-4 million viewers.

I suppose you could always watch MOTD with the sound down, while listening to Hear & Now. It might make for intriguing cultural juxtaposition!

[Beef Oven!]

I suppose you could always watch MOTD with the sound down, while listening to Hear & Now. It might make for intriguing cultural juxtaposition!

I can listen to music, while doing something else, but I can't do it with football.

[teamsaint]

I can listen to music, while doing something else, but I can't do it with football.

course you can.
start with, say, a QPR game, and then work up to something that actually matters, or might be good.

Worked for me. No danger at all of confusion.

I enjoyed what I heard of Gareth Barry's Piano quartet on the Tansy Davies show today.