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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26536
    #1

    New Generation Artists on television

    First one of an apparent series this evening, BBC FOUR tv at 8pm:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001708t
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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  • Serial_Apologist
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 37683
    #2
    Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
    First one of an apparent series this evening, BBC FOUR tv at 8pm:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001708t
    Not wishing to get all nationalistic about this, but wasn't the New Generation Artists scheme intended for indigenous talent?

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26536
      #3
      Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
      Not wishing to get all nationalistic about this, but wasn't the New Generation Artists scheme intended for indigenous talent?

      No idea. I’m rather glad it’s not insular, far too much of that around these days
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • Serial_Apologist
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 37683
        #4
        Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post

        No idea. I’m rather glad it’s not insular, far too much of that around these days
        True - admittedly I come to this from the enormous amount of jazz broadcast from abroad these days when outside currently fashionable circles so much going on in this country gets barely a mention!

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        • LHC
          Full Member
          • Jan 2011
          • 1557
          #5
          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
          Not wishing to get all nationalistic about this, but wasn't the New Generation Artists scheme intended for indigenous talent?
          No, it was always aimed at young artists at the beginning of their careers on both the national and international music scenes. The first artists included on the scheme in 1999 were

          Lisa Batiashvili (violin - Georgia)
          Alban Gerhardt (cello - Germany)
          Steven Osborne (piano - UK)
          Paul Lewis (piano - UK)
          Belcea Quartet (UK)
          Jerusalem Quartet (Israel)
          François-Frédéric Guy (piano - France)
          Natalie Clein (cello - UK)
          Lisa Milne (soprano - UK)
          Christopher Maltman (baritone - UK)
          Emily Beynon (flute - UK)
          Leopold String Trio (UK)
          "I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
          Lady Bracknell The importance of Being Earnest

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          • teamsaint
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 25209
            #6
            Would still love to know how they are selected.
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            I am not a number, I am a free man.

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            • french frank
              Administrator/Moderator
              • Feb 2007
              • 30286
              #7
              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
              Would still love to know how they are selected.
              The scheme was started by Adam Gatehouse and I think he just used to go on a talent crawl so it would have been a matter of who he got to hear. Since there were only 6-7 musicians per year, it was probably the first ones that satisfied his criteria (different countries, different instruments &c). He also probably had contacts who suggested possible candidates. He hasn't been with the BBC for some time so I don't know who does it now.
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