I must be an old fuddy-duddy but on Radio 3 I sort of expected to avoid the ridiculous childish frolickings of Halloween that good old American fuelled pagan festival. Wrong! Petroc Trelawney has just announced on an Radio 3 trailer that tonight’s In Tune is going to scare us all out of out pants with ghosts and witches, broomsticks and coffins, haunted houses and magic spells. Whatever next for Radio 3 - concentration on serious music maybe?
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A Freudian slip-of-the-fingers, methinks!Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post -
Trick or tweet?Comment
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Hallowe'en is the second biggest festival in America, so retailers follow the lead because it means profits. It has eclipsed Bonfire Night and which is the better to celebrate? All Hallows or All Souls or an attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament? I know which one gets my vote.
Although, last year, my bus driver said "I don't understand, this Guy Fawkes, why celebrate a total failure?"Comment
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Thank heavens I just now bought 2 tubes of mints at my local shop. The first lot of masked terrors get one, the second, none.Originally posted by Anna View Post
As regards Guy Fawkes, wasn't he against parliamentary democracy?? If so, that would have been an anti-progressive stance, at the time... as it still would - unless one prefers Rule By Monarchy?Comment
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I also heard this dreadful trailer! One point that struck me was the portrayal of Penderecki as a composer of "scary Hallowe'en music", rather than as a major figure of the 20th century. Perhaps that's what we should now expect: a little morsel on special occasions - anything more would scare off the refugees from R2 and Classic FM.Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostComment
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A neighbour of mine who lives in a small courtyard saw some 10 yr old or so trick/treaters gathering by his front gate. He slipped down into the garage that adjoins the courtyard. As the kids crept past giggling and whispering, from behind the garage door he intoned into a big metal watering can very loudly: 'I'm coming to find you!'. They couldn't get out fast enough. That was five years ago and no kid has ever been back.Comment
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I no longer answer the door on the evening of 31st October - but some years ago some children asked for a treat and I invited them in to listen to my latest Stravinsky CD. The adult lurking behind them soon dragged them away.Comment
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Originally posted by VodkaDilc View Post
In the matter of Hallowe'en trailers on R3 I had a bit of splutter earlier...
Originally posted by Caliban View Post
Possibly worse than anything on Radio 3 ever: the "Hallowe'en on Radio 3" trailer, Trelawney mugging pathetically.
Embarrassing and infantile. Who do they take their listeners for ?
"...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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Thank you all for cheering me up the post's were hilarious.
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The awful childish trailer probably put off many potential listeners to what was an enlivening and enlightening concert which I am told was sold out, and which I heard on iPlayer.Comment
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