June is British Music Month on Radio 3!

[amateur51]

Totally agree, Saly. I have deleted the offending post.

But why should it be neccesary to devote one month to British Music, other than to admit that Radio 3 neglects it for the rest of the year?

HS

Perhaps, just perhaps this is The Powers That Be checking out the response to British music - if they get masses of requests, tweets, etc they'll be encouraged to weave more British fare into the weekly cloth - who knows?

That's why anton, BBM, etc have been banging on about June being British music month - let's hope it makes a difference

[amateur51]

Indeed Saly.
I am working at home today,how on earth am I supposed to concentrate on flippin' spreadsheets and stuff with such wonderful,wonderful sounds coming from the radio.
Frank Bridge - The Sea !!

Bridge The Sea is a wonderful piece, I agree and I heard it 'in the flesh'
a few months back played by the Philharmonia conducted by Edward Gardner ... and it was even better 'live'

[vinteuil]

Perhaps, just perhaps this is The Powers That Be checking out the response to British music - if they get masses of requests, tweets, etc they'll be encouraged to weave more British fare into the weekly cloth - who knows?

That's why anton, BBM, etc have been banging on about June being British music month - let's hope it makes a difference

... good lord, I hope not!

What about those of us who can't abide "British" music?????????

[Beef Oven]

... good lord, I hope not!

What about those of us who can't abide "British" music?????????

How is it not possible to 'abide' British music if one is a fan of classical/orchestra/German/serious music?

I'm sure there's a few punk-rockers out there who can't abide with us, and some boogie boys. But us lot!!!?

Maybe it's not the music that can't be 'abidable', but the concept

[Demetrius]

... good lord, I hope not!

What about those of us who can't abide "British" music?????????

If its done within reasonable limits, but regularly, instead of a month of "wham, we are going to drown you"

it ought to be fine for you and great for those who like british music, I suppose.

[doversoul1]

... good lord, I hope not!

What about those of us who can't abide "British" music?????????

Well, they had their ‘good lord…’ month back in March, and if the effect/result of the Baroque Spring is anything to go by, I should think we’ll be fairly ‘safe’.

[vinteuil]

Well, they had their ‘good lord…’ month back in March, and if the effect/result of the Baroque Spring is anything to go by, I should think we’ll be fairly ‘safe’.

... thank you, doversoul!

[salymap]

I doubt that many remember Muir Mathieson, but he said things I remember. One was 'There are only two kinds of music, good and bad'. You can't judge a work purely by the place where the composer was born.

I can't listen to a lotof Wagner but it doesn't mean I dislike all German/Austrian music. The Schubertfest almost put me off that composer but as long as this month opens the BBC ears to our requests it won't be wasted.

[Serial_Apologist]

I doubt that many remember Muir Mathieson, but he said things I remember. One was 'There are only two kinds of music, good and bad'. You can't judge a work purely by the place where the composer was born.

I can't listen to a lotof Wagner but it doesn't mean I dislike all German/Austrian music. The Schubertfest almost put me off that composer but as long as this month opens the BBC ears to our requests it won't be wasted.

The British musicfest would certainly put me off were it to be represented by one man alone, especially were that to be Benjamin Britten. But that alone illustrates the meaninglessness of comparing this particular extended event with the Schubert-one-man-bandfest. Vinteuil's dislike of "British" music needs an awful lot of generalisation applied to make any sense of it.

[BBMmk2]

I think like one boarder said above, that it might be a case let's see iof we do a month opf drowned oit to British music, then we see how many tweets we are getting to this efffect and if there are enough, over a period of time slot in some more British music but not in a overwehlming Brit Fest but, as part of the schedules, as there seems to be quite a calling for this!?!??!?

[BBMmk2]

Listen up folks! BBM has done it again! Next Tuesday n18th June, R3Breakfast be playing the Elgar Sursum Corda

[amateur51]

Listen up folks! BBM has done it again! Next Tuesday n18th June, R3Breakfast be playing the Elgar Sursum Corda

Bravo encore BBM

[Andrew Slater]

Has anyone been checking how many of anton's list items have been played? I've just noticed that Arthur Butterworth's The Path Across the Moors is to be the first item in Sunday's programme.