What on earth is this all about ...?

[Dave2002]

https://www.classical-music.com/news/bbc-invites-listeners-to-remix-beethovens-fifth-symphony/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=&utm_campaign=Newsletter%2017%2F11%2F20_533363_BBC%20Music_Newsletters_1874186

Remixing? Like puttin' a backin track on ala Waldo De los Rios or some other?Maybe rescoring for electronic instruments and synthesizers.
Nah - old hat - Walter/Wendy Carlos and and Tomita have been there before.

So what is this all about?

[teamsaint]

https://www.classical-music.com/news...etters_1874186

Remixing? Like puttin' a backin track on ala Waldo De los Rios or some other?Maybe rescoring for electronic instruments and synthesizers.
Nah - old hat - Walter/Wendy Carlos and and Tomita have been there before.

So what is this all about?

Ratings.

[Serial_Apologist]

Ratings.

Beatings.

[cloughie]

Ratings.

It’s Roll over week obviously! It was Berry’d years ago. Side 2 Track 1 of ‘With the Beatles’ and Elo Elo Elo again the early 70s! Then there was Hooked on Classics and then this

https://youtu.be/-JrkFh5ful8

Which Bryn may have played on - so nothing new really except that the latest idea will probably be dreadful whereas the others above were all good in their execution! The its all a matter of taste!

[Bryn]

It’s Roll over week obviously! It was Berry’d years ago. Side 2 Track 1 of ‘With the Beatles’ and Elo Elo Elo again the early 70s! Then there was Hooked on Classics and then this

https://youtu.be/-JrkFh5ful8

Which Bryn may have played on - so nothing new really except that the latest idea will probably be dreadful whereas the others above were all good in their execution! The its all a matter of taste!

Not guilty. I played in the same concert as them on two occasions, once as a member of the Scratch Orchestra's "Shrapnel Wood and Metal Band" and once as a "Slippery Merchant", but I was only ever an honorary member, of the Portsmouth Sinfonia, not an active participant.

[french frank]

It’s Roll over week obviously! It was Berry’d years ago. Side 2 Track 1 of ‘With the Beatles’ and Elo Elo Elo again the early 70s! Then there was Hooked on Classics and then this

https://youtu.be/-JrkFh5ful8

Which Bryn may have played on - so nothing new really except that the latest idea will probably be dreadful whereas the others above were all good in their execution! The its all a matter of taste!

There's a comment from someone who played the clarinet on the recording and reported that all were to play 'as well as they could' and definitely NO laughing.

One's own reaction to it may be either to wince and say 'How awful' - or to laugh. What I'm not too sure about is the purpose of recording it and releasing a record. That is something completely different from the communal performance of attempting. I winced and laughed!

So, again, what is the purpose of this latest BBC initiative? Are we supposed to laugh at the results, or say 'What an interesting new take on Beethoven. This is Beethoven for the 21st century'?

[cloughie]

There's a comment from someone who played the clarinet on the recording and reported that all were to play 'as well as they could' and definitely NO laughing.

One's own reaction to it may be either to wince and say 'How awful' - or to laugh. What I'm not too sure about is the purpose of recording it and releasing a record. That is something completely different from the communal performance of attempting. I winced and laughed!

So, again, what is the purpose of this latest BBC initiative? Are we supposed to laugh at the results, or say 'What an interesting new take on Beethoven. This is Beethoven for the 21st century'?

The Portsmouth Sinfonia I believe only allowed proper musicians if they played an instrument other than their regular one!

[Richard Barrett]

what is the purpose of this latest BBC initiative? Are we supposed to laugh at the results, or say 'What an interesting new take on Beethoven. This is Beethoven for the 21st century'?

The purpose is probably to associate classical music with DJ culture, something in which the BBC is as usual somewhere behind the cutting edge and catching up in what one might describe as a "dad dancing" sort of way. On the other hand I wouldn't bet against there being any interesting results.

[french frank]

The purpose is probably to associate classical music with DJ culture, something in which the BBC is as usual somewhere behind the cutting edge and catching up in what one might describe as a "dad dancing" sort of way.

That associative purpose crossed my mind but the "dad dancing" analogy seems very apt!

On the other hand I wouldn't bet against there being any interesting results.

No, I wouldn't bet against it if some skilled DJs are attracted to the idea. Though it does come close (in my view) to making classical music a newly discovered exploitable commodity ready to be mined, processed and packaged - as in reality TV shows like Classical Idol and Maestro.