Now I am listening to Rob Cowan's morning programme and he has a guest on the illusionist Derren Brown talking about his favourite music. It seems that Derren Brown is on each day this week. I thought 'Private Passions' on Sunday was for that purpose. Just another example of the obsession the media have with the Celebrity Culture. I'm not really interested in Derren Brown's pieces of music on Radio3 and his stuffed animals etc. I want to hear music. The views of classical performers and composers might be more interesting but please no more celebrities.
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Ah, this is hopeful. It sounds as if they're running out of ideas already.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
I'm a big fan of Derren Brown's - some of the stuff he does is mind-boggling- but he shouldn't be on Breakfast. My Hi-Fi has packed up at the moment so I can't listen to Radio 3 -at least not with decent sound quality- or indeed my CD collection. Whilst I miss the CDs, I must admit can't say the same for most of Radio 3's output nowadays.
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He was on Essential Classics, though I see no indication whatever on the website as to what music he is choosing: "The Essential Classics guest is the psychological illusionist Derren Brown. Today he includes the piece that first stimulated his interest in classical music." Well, we'll soon find out what it was when the playlist goes up.Originally posted by Mr Pee View Post
[I can just hear Rob asking: "What piece of music was it, Derren, that first stimulated your interest in classical music?"]It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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... and wdn't it be good if a Guest did choose 4' 33" ? 'cos then Robbikins wd have to 'play' it - and we know the BBC systems don't allow for silence that long - tee hee ....Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostJohn Cage's 4' 33" is my guess
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...or the full version of 'Jesus's Blood Never Failed Me Yet'.Comment
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... or indeed, (a recent subject on the Hear & Now thread) - Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning -Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
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That raises an interesting point. Is there any 'persuasion' over what might not be a good thing to choose?
Or maybe it's like Who do you think you are? where if the initial screening doesn't turn up anything of interest a polite 'thank you but no thank you' is issued, but in this case it would be for choices too esoteric.Comment
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Have they ever done 4'33" on BaL? Might lead to an interesting debate on whether it should be 'played' on original instruments or whether certain conductors would take it too quickly or too slowly, or simply just take the wee wee!Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostJohn Cage's 4' 33" is my guess
By the way who is Derren Brown? I switched off this morning after the wonderful Sir Clifford's K595.Comment
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... and whether the audience is allowed to applaud between movements?Originally posted by barber olly View PostComment
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He's a TV magician-cum-hypnotist.Originally posted by barber olly View Post
Finding him somewhat scary, I have not actually watched any of his programmes to completion. it must take quite some "personality" to mass-hypnotise a mass audience - as suggested on the never-ending trail; but who knows? Clegg managed it successfully (if only for a few days) on the pre-election discussion.Comment
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Christ almighty why is there so much talk on R3? I don't want to hear this bloke go on and on day after day. I WANT TO HEAR MUSIC. Sorry for the caps. The music could have been lifted from Classic FM's playlist.Comment
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Marvin, see my comments on the Essential Classics and Radio 3 Dying thread: I couldn't agree more. Having Brown on being desperately interviewed by Rob Cowan is a new low. If they don't dump the chat format, there'll be more of this banal, irrelevant b*ll*cks to come when they've run out of vaguely interesting people like Starkey and d'Ancona.Originally posted by marvin View Post"...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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... and ironically such a contrast with Toady, and suchlike programmes on R4, where interviewees of any ilk are never allowed to reach any sort of clinching point in a reply to a question without being interrupted, or told, "In five seconds can you give us a one-sentance solution to the Greek debt problem".Originally posted by Caliban View Post
I was reminded of this yesterday, watching a clip posted on another thread of a 1972 documentary on the Black activist Malcolm X. It was a sad and salutary reminder of simple, informative courtesy being an indispensable part of an interviewer/presenter's job, an art the BBC has obviously at some point along the way discretely expunged from its training programmes, in exchange for this......
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