The London Underground and Music. R3 concert interval talk 4th July at 8.15pm

[salymap]

A heads up for an interval prog with a difference. Must listen again tomorrow - could Sir Arthur Bliss really be mixed up with this?

Music - I don't remember any on the Tube, too busy fighting to get on the train and not be squashed in the doors.

[Serial_Apologist]

A heads up for an interval prog with a difference. Must listen again tomorrow - could Sir Arthur Bliss really be mixed up with this?

Music - I don't remember any on the Tube, too busy fighting to get on the train and not be squashed in the doors.

Some buskers got onto a District Line train the other week. I didn't realise this was allowed. They weren't at all bad, I think they were doing Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", and made a few takings, though most passengers gave their fellow travellers sheepish looks before burying their heads in their freebie copies of the Metro news. But I too didn't hear this particular programme, and likewise will give it a listen tomorrow.

[salymap]

I'm not sure whether I heard it all. Screen went blank, as it does, programme disappeared too.

Don't know the Bliss work inspired by a Tube station. I'm sure he was more a car and chauffeur man

Quite interesting though. There were often violinists outside Charing Cross, one very goodyears ago. Not Tube of course.

[gurnemanz]

Favourite song about a busker: Joni Mitchell "For Free". Nice live version here.

[Bryn]

Hmm. No mention of that classic of London Underground music, Cornelius Cardew's TUBE TRAIN STOPPED BETWEEN STATIONS (the title is capitalised in the score). This is one of The Composition which may comprise one aspect of a performance of Paragraph 5 of The Great Learning. It certainly formed part of the two performances in which I was involved, in 1972 and 1984.

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm not sure whether I heard it all. Screen went blank, as it does, programme disappeared too.

Don't know the Bliss work inspired by a Tube station. I'm sure he was more a car and chauffeur man

Quite interesting though. There were often violinists outside Charing Cross, one very goodyears ago. Not Tube of course.

Ah: "Conversations", from which "On the Train at Oxford Circus", complete with Stravinskyan underground rites, dissonant screeches still familiar when rounding curves, and pastoral escapes as the Blissful one loses his imagination in Art Deco posters depicting a beckoning privet-boundaried Metroland; yes, one of my favourites from this composer.

[salymap]

Ah: "Conversations", from which "On the Train at Oxford Circus", complete with Stravinskyan underground rites, dissonant screeches still familiar when rounding curves, and pastoral escapes as the Blissful one loses his imagination in Art Deco posters depicting a beckoning privet-boundaried Metroland; yes, one of my favourites from this composer.

I've never heard of it S_A,must look around fora broadcast?? Slapped wrist saly

He was active in Composer's Guild, PRS stuff and used to collect my boss so that they went to meetings together. I know some ballet music of his [??] but he doesn't get many broadcasts now does he?

[Beef Oven]

Landan andahgroun - Inglan Is A Bitch - Linton Kwesi Johnson

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IM3yHjXUy2k