Originally posted by Resurrection Man
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We just have to take comfort in all the new listeners who will flock in to replace us ......................It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
Agreed RM, it's all reeks of desperation, doesn't it....Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
Some interesting bits, no doubt (I've yet to listen to the Huckvale spot on CD Review, which I suspect will be worth hearing), but Danny Elfman's score for 'Corpse Bride' on 'TEMS' was a sign of 'concept excess' (oh something sounds like a harpsichord so that's like early music innit?
) by desperate ideas-people.
The best thing is the 'Film Music' series on BBC4 TV (though what hold does Neil Brand have over the BBC? He's got the three weeks in a stranglehold - he's on Essential Classics, and a couple of others... Must have compromising photos of someone high up
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"...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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This comes from one of the more interesting collaborations between a composer and film maker IMV
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It's all very tenuous also. Christopher Lee (one of the world's most boring actors!) was presenting Satruday Classics yesterday. He didn't really play any film music, at all. Just banged on about how much he liked opera. What the connection with film music, other than him being a film actor, was, I'm not sure. Ms.Bott sounded like she was having to stretch the point a bit also, and Alyn Shipton was hardly gurgling about the jazz at the movies selection that had been knocked together.Originally posted by Resurrection Man View Post
More and more the BBC likes to go in for these themed concepts but I'm simply not convinced that they have the production talent to carry an idea through. I get the impression they are happy to throw an idea at the wall and see what comes of it. Rather like Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple when he hurls Jack Lemmon's spaghetti at the kitchen wall, provoked by Lemmon's patronising correction that it is actually linguine, then counters ...
"... Now, it's garbage!" Quite.Comment
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Originally posted by Stillhomewardbound View Post
That's the word I was looking for in my #62 above!
And yes, I gave Ch. Lee a big swerve
"...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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I suspect they get them on a cheaper hourly rate the more work they give them: cf Mr Jones on R2, BBC TV and R3, and KD on R3, BBC TV and R4.Originally posted by Caliban View PostThe best thing is the 'Film Music' series on BBC4 TV (though what hold does Neil Brand have over the BBC? He's got the three weeks in a stranglehold - he's on Essential Classics, and a couple of others... Must have compromising photos of someone high up)
Anyway, confirmation on the latest commissioning round brief that the 'special event/seasons' are intended to 'raise the profile' of Radio 3. In other words, they're not for the people who are already listening since they already know about Radio 3, but for this long sought 'potential audience' which will start tuning in if they put on the right sort of programmes for them.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Radio 3 has retweeted (22 mins ago) "I'm currently climbing every mountain, fording every stream, and following every rainbow courtesy of @BBCRadio3 I surrender. :("
I assume they didn't notice the emoticon?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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... and the BBC SSO with Star Wars. BLOODY Star Wars. John Williams has written lots of god scores in his time, but Star Wars was little short of musical hagiography, much of it from Holst's Planets.Comment
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Star Wars
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I know....Originally posted by Stillhomewardbound View Post
I'll see your BLOODY and raise you a ****** and a **** !!! 
"...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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It's interesting to compare the Star Wars music, harking back to Holst and Korngold inter al, with the electronic music written by Louis and Bebe Barron for the futuristic film Forbidden Planet from the 1950s (some of which was played on yesterday's CD Review).Comment
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38 pages to tell us there are anachronistic relationships between aspects of the film and the musicOriginally posted by MrGongGong View PostStar Wars
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This gets my vote..... http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RDkx6AkPyjU&feature=plppComment
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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I heard it's great. If I get the chance.Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostAnd Mine
This looks worth a visit if you are in London
http://www.uppcinema.co.uk/index.php...-a-wicker-man/Comment
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