Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850-1927): 2-6/12/24

[Ein Heldenleben]

There's a great deal in what you say. Composer of the Week had precisely this strong and useful educational function, in a period where it was actually at the 'popular' end of Radio 3's output. It was a sort of midday equivalent to David Munrow's superlative teatime programme Pied Piper, nominally aimed at teenagers, but actually enchanting everyone who heard it. Now that Composer of the Week has to take on the burden of being at the "thinking person's" end of the spectrum, it has lost its very reason for existing.

Who was it who said, that 'if you feel you're the stupidest person in the room, then you're in the right room'? Don't dismissive and superior attitudes harden us to prove such people wrong?

I don’t know but co-incidentally that phrase pops up every day on a particularly irritating Radio trail at the moment.
Even more co-incidentally that trail has just this second gone out ! It’s for a history podcast.
Do podcasts make you less stupid? Hmmm

[Ein Heldenleben]

Who are only there in the first place due to the totally inadequate provision for those who prefer active travel as a means of transportation (compare Paris; Amsterdam, Copenhagen etc), by which they keep themselves fit, thereby reducing the burden on the NHS (ie the taxpayer or you and me if you prefer!) but don't get me started!

Having once lived for thirty years pretty near MJ I can say it’s richly provided with quiet roads and cycle lanes. There’s no excuse for cycling on pavements there. However the levels of airborne pollution there make for a very different experience than cycling there in the 70’s on my trusty Raleigh. And there are two roads that only some one hell bent on suicide would contemplate cycling. My wife did en route to a shift on a strike day back in the 80’s and I literally couldn’t believe her bravery.

[Master Jacques]

Feminism in the sense of being prepared to starve to death for your beliefs over the rights of women surely predates our lifetimes by at least a century? More if we take Wollstonecraft’s Vindication as the starting point in the UK..

Questions of feminism and women's rights loom large in certain plays of Euripides and Aristophanes, of course, as a highly contemporary Attic debate. I've no doubt it was around when we were in the caves.

[smittims]

Oh dear, ff, 'ere we go again .

I have to admit I don't understand what you are saying . However, whatever may 'appear' to you, I am very interested in understanding the different life-situations of men and women through the ages. I just don't think we're always told the truth about them. And I believe there's a lot of anachronistic thinking goes into interpreting them . I don't want to widen the debate again , but to stick to the topic, I'll just say I think leBeau's music, as music, just isn't good enought to broadcast, unlike that of many composers (some male, some female) who are ignored by Radio 3 .

[french frank]

Questions of feminism and women's rights loom large in certain plays of Euripides and Aristophanes, of course, as a highly contemporary Attic debate. I've no doubt it was around when we were in the caves.

So, 'twas always thus!