'The Choir' on R3

[DracoM]

The Choir on R3 on Sundays.
Ahem.


SMP i/c. R3's soundalike Radio 2 bits and pieces mash-up.
But I suppose if I use that term, the U12 programme-makers will get excited and think they've cracked it.
SMP at her very, very most typically marmite, IMO.

[Gabriel Jackson]

The Choir on R3 on Sundays.
Ahem.


SMP i/c. R3's soundalike Radio 2 bits and pieces mash-up.
But I suppose if I use that term, the U12 programme-makers will get excited and think they've cracked it.
SMP at her very, very most typically marmite, IMO.

Weren't people complaining a little ago that British choirs' successes in international competitions never gets mentioned? Well there were plenty of mentions tonight (though, as far as I can see, everybody wins a prize at the World Choir Games.)

[mangerton]

Games?

[Gabriel Jackson]

Games?

What's the question?

[DracoM]

You had some nice fans of your music on tonight, GJ.

[Gabriel Jackson]

You had some nice fans of your music on tonight, GJ.

It was a special honour to be asked to write a piece in memory of Geraldine Atkinson and her words, written when she was only 12, are remarkably mature and very beautiful (and very musical).

[mangerton]

What's the question?

Well. Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, Highland Games. These are all rather athletic in character. So at the World Choir Games, is there a class for (eg) singing a Bach Chorale while doing the high jump?

In my - no doubt very old fashioned - way, I should have thought Choir Competition might have been a more appropriate term.

There was a National Choir Competition in January 1974 or 75 which took place in the RAH. I think Sir David Willcocks was one of the judges. I do remember that the given test piece for the small choir class was Das Neugeborne Kindelein by Buxtehude, and that I was a member of the winning choir.

[DracoM]

Promoters possibly think that by calling such a meet 'Games' it will make it seem all zeitgeisty.

[amateur51]

Promoters possibly think that by calling such a meet 'Games' it will make it seem all zeitgeisty.

A bit like 'meet' I guess

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Ye Gods. Have we sunk to The Choir being about competitions?

[jean]

Weren't people complaining a little ago that British choirs' successes in international competitions never gets mentioned?

I think they were.

Some people are never satisfied.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Some people are never satisfied.

I don't think it's necessarily the same people. I would prefer hear good choirs singing well, rather than being dragged into a brass band contest or a football match.

[vinteuil]

Some people are never satisfied.

... I hope people are never satisfied. Satisfaction is the end of things, is death. Life is the moving on, ever unsatisfied, seeking and needing more and other...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

... I hope people are never satisfied. Satisfaction is the end of things, is death. Life is the moving on, ever unsatisfied, seeking and needing more and other...

Vinteuil - Brilliant!!! I'd like to frame that statement and have it blazoned across banners worldwide.

Fine tuning it a little, we may never find satisfaction, but we can seek contentment.

[vinteuil]

... we may never find satisfaction, but we can seek contentment.

... careful now - you may end up turning into a Boo-dist. Check with serial-apologist for early warning signs