An Irritating New Practice

[Guest]

I have recently noticed that the DAB scrolling display for Radio 3 has started to name composers librarian-fashion, surname first, given name second. Today I listened to a piece by Debussy, Claude on the way home. I don't know of any Debussys the composer could possibly have been confused with.
Am I alone in finding this new style exceptionally pompous and irritating?
I notice the same practice has not been extended to the likes of Cowan,Rob or Rafferty Sean. However I wonder how long before it creeps into announcers' scripts?
Is anyone else as annoyed by this as I am?

[french frank]

Hello and welcome, Back Desk! I don't have DAB so can't say about that one exactly, but I do have an unreasoning dislike of the ordinary playlists that tell you first names and second names (and middle names if they have them) of all the composers, no matter how often the names appear or how well-known they are. We can never just say 'Tchaikovsky' these days because it's all computerised and computers are like that.

[umslopogaas]

Yees ... but remember that there are more people appearing on the planet all the time, some of them will be composers and some might have the same surname as existing well-known composers. Just at the moment I only know of one Debussy and that is Claude, but tomorrow I might hear of Marcel Debussy, a rising star of modern French music. Then R3 will have two Debussys to deal with and will need to differentiate between them.

Of course, I just made up Marcel Debussy for the sake of argument, but that doesnt mean either that he cannot exist, or even that he does exist and I just havent heard of him.

It may seem a bit obsessive to insist on such apparently un-necessary accuracy, but I am a scientist and I like it.

[MrGongGong]

Smalley
Stockhausen
Bach
Prokofiev
Panufnik
Adams
Ligeti

and so on
I can think of many composers who share their names
some are related
some not ............ there are two James Taylor's
I once made the mistake of buying an album by the strummer rather than the B3 player

[Beef Oven]

Smalley
Stockhausen
Bach
Prokofiev
Panufnik
Adams
Ligeti

and so on
I can think of many composers who share their names
some are related
some not ............ there are two James Taylor's
I once made the mistake of buying an album by the strummer rather than the B3 player

There's also a Pat Scabies, a Ron Prokofiev and only one Holger Czukay

[teamsaint]

There's also a Pat Scabies, a Ron Prokofiev and only one Holger Czukay

And it's DR Beat........

[MrGongGong]

All together now ............

There's only one Holger Czukay
There's only one Holger Czukay

and only one Arkady Shilkloper (check him out )

[Beef Oven]

All together now ............

There's only one Holger Czukay
There's only one Holger Czukay

Love that song !!!!

[MrGongGong]

Love that song !!!!

Clique alert ?

Rot

[teamsaint]

Love that song !!!!

Original or cover version?

[cloughie]

I have recently noticed that the DAB scrolling display for Radio 3 has started to name composers librarian-fashion, surname first, given name second. Today I listened to a piece by Debussy, Claude on the way home. I don't know of any Debussys the composer could possibly have been confused with.
Am I alone in finding this new style exceptionally pompous and irritating?
I notice the same practice has not been extended to the likes of Cowan,Rob or Rafferty Sean. However I wonder how long before it creeps into announcers' scripts?
Is anyone else as annoyed by this as I am?

Could be helpful eg Strauss, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Stamitz .

[Beef Oven]

Clique alert ?

Rot

Let's clique - altogether now.........

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qSgO2AaToCA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqSgO2AaToCA

[Beef Oven]

Original or cover version?

The original of course

You'd have loved the Cantona song at Old Trafford. Still sung to this day

[teamsaint]

Very funky beefy.
Le Clique....c'set chic

[teamsaint]

The original of course

You'd have loved the Cantona song at Old Trafford. Still sung to this day

I liked the Danny Wallace OT version.....