New Music Show - Saturday 8 Feb: 10pm

[Serial_Apologist]

Tom Service introduces highlights from the eighth London Contemporary Music Festival, staged in December, and hears from festival director Igor Toronyi-Lalic. Featuring music and performances including La Monte Young, Heleen van Haegenborgh, Alwynne Pritchard, artist Cerith Wyn Evans and Japanese duo O Yama O.

The iplayer page (link below) mentions Kate Mollenson but not Service; also Robert Worby, billed to interview Swedish composer and sound artists Hanna Hartman, and a new recordings survey of US cellist Charles Curtis.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000f6l6

[Serial_Apologist]

With apologies to our hosts (again!) Please could somebody transfer this thread to the Hear and Now board? I don't understand why it ended up here!

[Quarky]

Post is much appreciated - let's hope it ends up in the right place!

[jayne lee wilson]

I might offer more on this thread, but if it gets sidetracked by complaints about presenters...... not so much.....

[Serial_Apologist]

I might offer more on this thread, but if it gets sidetracked by complaints about presenters...... not so much.....

Sorry for any misunderstanding jayne - I was just pointing out an inconsistency between what it states in Radio Times and on the iplayer page.

[jayne lee wilson]

Sorry for any misunderstanding jayne - I was just pointing out an inconsistency between what it states in Radio Times and on the iplayer page.

[Ein Heldenleben]

I might offer more on this thread, but if it gets sidetracked by complaints about presenters...... not so much.....

Whatever some people might think about TS as a presenter his commitment to new music is not in doubt . I wish this show was on at a more accessible time . I know I can listen again on BBC sounds but I have the idea of a schedule almost hard wired...

[Serial_Apologist]

Our overseers don't seem concerned about this thread being in the wrong place. I had thought of reproducing it anew under Hear & Now but the programme concerned is now only a day off, and idential threads in two places at the same time would only cause confusion.

I shall leave matters as they are, and promise to try and do better, from now on.

[Quarky]

Tom Service introduces highlights from the eighth London Contemporary Music Festival, staged in December, and hears from festival director Igor Toronyi-Lalic. Featuring music and performances including La Monte Young, Heleen van Haegenborgh, Alwynne Pritchard, artist Cerith Wyn Evans and Japanese duo O Yama O.

The iplayer page (link below) mentions Kate Mollenson but not Service; also Robert Worby, billed to interview Swedish composer and sound artists Hanna Hartman, and a new recordings survey of US cellist Charles Curtis.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000f6l6

Yes it was Kate, but with major input from the Festival Organisers.

La Monte Young - Impressions - The electrical transformer composer.

1. His music was ground-breaking 60 or so years ago, and may be initiated a whole new genre of dream music, but these days it seems other people do it a lot better.

2. Haven't listened to a great deal of his compositions, but many of them don't appear to be up to the standard of his best.

....Just impressions.....

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes it was Kate, but with major input from the Festival Organisers.

La Monte Young - Impressions - The electrical transformer composer.

1. His music was ground-breaking 60 or so years ago, and may be initiated a whole new genre of dream music, but these days it seems other people do it a lot better.

2. Haven't listened to a great deal of his compositions, but many of them don't appear to be up to the standard of his best.

....Just impressions.....

We seem to be hearing much more experimental and happenings-type music of the kinds introduced in the 1960s on The New Music Show than was the case back then, although I recall there being much more contemporary music right across all the schedules on Radio 3 back then.