Jess Gillam's "This Classical Life"

[Old Grumpy]

Suzy used to present 'In Tune' on R3... rather well, as it happens, and at a MUCH higher level of articulacy than JG.

Agree entirely.

OG

[LMcD]

Does anybody else remember Natalie Wheen, who presented 'Mainly For Pleasure', the predecessor of 'In Tune'? She introduced me to the music of Peter Sculthorpe, ending her introduction to 'Port Essington' with the words 'The bush wins'.

[Serial_Apologist]

Does anybody else remember Natalie Wheen, who presented 'Mainly For Pleasure', the predecessor of 'In Tune'? She introduced me to the music of Peter Sculthorpe, ending her introduction to 'Port Essington' with the words 'The bush wins'.

Did she not mention what happened to the two birds?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I once caught her act by mistake - I thought the whole essence of her show was how music was to be treated as background to be overlaid by inconsequential gush - maybe this turns on some but not me.

For this reason alone, her live version of the programme was considerably better, as Jess could hardly talk over the live orchestra.

[LMcD]

Did she not mention what happened to the two birds?

Seeing as Nature had the upper hand throughout the whole sorry Port Essington saga, I imagine they were well out of harm's way before the final catastrophe.

[Stanfordian]

The near-constant giggling drives me. I just have to switch off.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The near-constant giggling drives me. I just have to switch off.

Indeed. Two people talking over the music they are praising results in the listeners not being able to hear it properly. So what’s the point of the programme?

[Frances_iom]

... So what’s the point of the programme?

to drive the 'wrong' type of listener away - after most of the rest of Saturday and Sunday is given over to those who in the past would expect to find their music elsewhere other than R3 which appears to so widened its reach as to accept anything that other channels no longer wish to broadcast - the 'presenters' come with all that material.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

t... after most of the rest of Saturday and Sunday is given over to those who in the past would expect to find their music elsewhere other than R3 which appears to so widened its reach as to accept anything that other channels no longer wish to broadcast - the 'presenters' come with all that material.

This reminds me of badly arranged choral music, where the sopranos get the melody, the basses get the bass line, the tenors get as close to a monotone as the harmonies permit, and the altos get the notes no-one else wants,

[Ein Heldenleben]

This reminds me of badly arranged choral music, where the sopranos get the melody, the basses get the bass line, the tenors get as close to a monotone as the harmonies permit, and the altos get the notes no-one else wants,

Sounds like one of my stabs at O level harmony…. Basses singing over an octave and tenors stuck on f,g and a

[Bryn]

Much enjoying today's edition. Great to hear Joplin's Treemonisha getting some promotion from Soweto Kinch.