What music best captures the closure of the official messageboard?

[Guest]

When I tried to pop in to the official message boards and found them erased I felt sad, and that made me wonder about what music would express this sadness. My answer, the musical Fiddler on the Roof in which a village with its hierarchy, friendships, petty animosities, silliness, profundity and vibrant life is all suddenly and brutally swept away. (Happily I have found that the analogy breaks down as people can regroup here rather being swept to the four winds.) Any other suggestions?

[Norfolk Born]

http://www.etv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=1259
The link appears broken. Try this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IseOecATZ1o. Ah! - this one's marked 'not available'.
You can hopefully access either or both by accessing the relevant site without using the link, failing which which google 'So Long, Farewell...'
Then there's always this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ya_Gq8d4Q I've just checked, and this link works!

[scottycelt]

Maybe this one ... and just the the sort of sound one expects to hear on R3 these days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pFMC4D-JJ0

[3rd Viennese School]

Tchaikovsky Symphony no.6.
After all the good clean family fun of mvt 3 comes mvt 4, and with it, death.

R.I.P.

3VS

[french frank]

Way back in 1703**, when the old Classical Forum board was closed (before Classical Music on Radio 3 and Platform 3), we held hands at midnight, waiting for the closure, and reported what we were listening to. Not altogether unseasonally, I played Mozart's Laßt uns mit geschlungen Händen, K.623 (a Masonic variation on Auld Lang Syne!).

**Oh, all right, I'd guess 2005(?). They were always closing down the main classical board and starting a new one ... (so perhaps we're doing the right thing? )

[Chris Newman]

I just popped back to read some of the old boards using my usual link. I can read them but, of course, cannot post there. I think Auld Lang Syne is very apt, FF.

[verismissimo]

Goodbye-ee, Goodbye-ee,
Wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eye-ee
Tho' it's hard to part, I know,
I'll be tickled to death to go,
Don't cry-ee, don't sigh-ee,
There's a silver lining in the sky-ee!
Bon Soir, old thing! Cheerio! Chin-Chin,
Nah-Poo, Toodle-oo, Goodbye-ee

[Basil]

This?

http://www.box.net/shared/dxfcu42nrj

[salymap]

Vera Lynn singing 'I'll be seeing you' perhaps. I don't know about the 'old familiar places' though.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

ambivalence perhaps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SN11IyZhEw

and who can resist her here with Pops

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYP_R...eature=related

[Tevot]

"The Sound of Silence" perhaps?

or...

"So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye..." ? :-)

[Stillhomewardbound]

My recommendation:

Arvo Pärt's 'Cantus In Memoriam' which is played not just for the MBs but the decline of Radio 3, in general.

[Norfolk Born]

"The Sound of Silence" perhaps?

or...

"So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye..." ? :-)

- cf. Message #2

[Eudaimonia]

Hey Sal-- remember this one?

Here's To The Next Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoTE6LbR-bw&feature=player_detailpage

[Flosshilde]

Gotterdammerung (just the last half hour or so), with RW as Wotan. Not sure who would be Brunnhilde though.

With a sequel (or post-logue, if there is such a thing) portraying the new era & the re-born messageboards.