The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well now we know; in 2006 http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/spe...n_future.shtml leads to Ms Margolye's weepies on Breakfast

now i think that the BBC is a world beater in the digital age for its use of the opportunities ... who now would choose not to have iplayer etc .... but his remarks on content are the issue ...

Gordon Torr in Managing Creative People [an excellent tome] is scathing about AUNT and creativity ...and the consequent loss of editorial authority in programmes

[Nick Armstrong]

Glad to see that the pesky 'Specialist Classical Chart' continues not to be visible on the R3 homepage - indeed I couldn't find the thing at all on a cursory look through the webiste. Someone's decided to bury it Here it crops up still on Breakfast though. Only a matter of time before it drops from sight there too I suspect

Wonder whose brainchild that was...

Still I wonder if we'd have got a nice bracing Shostakovich prelude and fugue on Breakfast without it...

[french frank]

now i think that the BBC is a world beater in the digital age for its use of the opportunities ... who now would choose not to have iplayer etc .... but his remarks on content are the issue ...

... including, vis-à-vis this particular thread: "One of the biggest points to come out of the staff survey was the feeling that we don't just use people's talents in the BBC as well as we could."

As with Rob reduced to Comedy Desert Island Discs and The Charts Show, perhaps ...?

[Norfolk Born]

'And if you could take just one joke with you, which would it be?'

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i dunno but this has a certain something about it

If You Gotta Ask….

Mort Sahl tells a story about the Jimmy Giuffre 3 performing at a concert for high school students on the West Coast. As Giuffre’s ultra-quiet program unfolded, with clarinet, guitar and bass pursuing their understated roles, the student audience grew perceptibly restless. Finally, one crew-cut, sweatered youth rose in his seat during a number and yelled, ‘Where’s the rhythm?’

Giuffre stopped playing, quietly walked to the mike and gravely replied, ‘It’s understood.’

from the excellent jazz site

[lordmhoram]

Breakfast show this morning

Good one this morning. Martin Handley announced that among the offerings would be a piece of Shostakovitch. The thought instantly flashed through my mind: "Ah, that'll be the Festive Overture, then." And guess what?

[Vile Consort]

Good one this morning. Martin Handley announced that among the offerings would be a piece of Shostakovitch. The thought instantly flashed through my mind: "Ah, that'll be the Festive Overture, then." And guess what?

Let's be optimistic! The fourth symphony?

[MickyD]

Two days ago we also had The Lark Ascending - I really did think my set had turned over to CFM.

[Frances_iom]

Two days ago we also had The Lark Ascending - I really did think my set had turned over to CFM.

I think the short term memory of the production team is shot - the presenter can recall recordings from 50 years ago however they seem incapable of recalling that the same piece was played only a short time previous. Another example is the advert for 'live broadcasting' of concerts as being a 'new + exciting thing' on R3 (once advertised as the' home of live music' but now only just beginning to climb out of the train wreck imposed by a certain director)

[Nick Armstrong]

I now listen exclusively to a wonderful radio station in the mornings, Classical KUSC from Southern California. I finally found it, it takes me back to a number of trips out there when the car radio was permanently tuned to it - but our morning is their equivalent of Through the Night, and there is a delightful selection of music so far, good sound too.

Sunday night is fun as well - Alec Baldwin the actor but also classical music nut introduces their afternoon show about the New York Phil.

http://www.kusc.org/

[Don Petter]

I now listen exclusively to a wonderful radio station in the mornings, Classical KUSC from Southern California. I finally found it, it takes me back to a number of trips out there when the car radio was permanently tuned to it - but our morning is their equivalent of Through the Night, and there is a delightful selection of music so far, good sound too.

Sunday night is fun as well - Alec Baldwin the actor but also classical music nut introduces their afternoon show about the New York Phil.

http://www.kusc.org/

Well, that was weird! I happened to be listening to the Vermont Public Radio stream when I read your post. I thought - Good to have another classical streaming source, and added KUSC to my favourites. Then I stopped Vermont to have a trial listen to KUSC, and it made no difference. It was the same work. In fact, if you play them together, there is just a slight time difference.

So they are both using the same source. All the announcements are word for word, though I think possibly read by different people, and I didn't hear a station ID for KUSC, which must differ from that for Vermont.

[Panjandrum]

I think the short term memory of the production team is shot - the presenter can recall recordings from 50 years ago however they seem incapable of recalling that the same piece was played only a short time previous.

I suspect the Breakfast (sic) production team has been paying more than a little attention to this list. Expect to see these little-aired ditties played ad nauseum even more than hitherto.

[Norfolk Born]

Trevor Howard telling Celia Johnson: 'Calm down, dear!'

[barber olly]

The Hall of Fame always appears to me to have a bias against certain composers. Those composers whose individual works or movements of works are more than about 12 minutes, hence no Don Juan or Till Eulenspiegl.

[MickyD]

I now listen exclusively to a wonderful radio station in the mornings, Classical KUSC from Southern California. I finally found it, it takes me back to a number of trips out there when the car radio was permanently tuned to it - but our morning is their equivalent of Through the Night, and there is a delightful selection of music so far, good sound too.

Sunday night is fun as well - Alec Baldwin the actor but also classical music nut introduces their afternoon show about the New York Phil.

http://www.kusc.org/

Hmm, classical music and Alec Baldwin - I can't think of a nicer combination!