Choral Evensong service halted by buskers mid-way at Bath Abbey

[jean]

We're to have an item on PM now. Just heard a busker claim to be a Christian but all the same to need to make the contested noise because it's his daily bread.

[Flosshilde]

and make sure that pieces or movements finish before the next strike of the bell.

A Breakfast style concert, if the clock strikes the quarter hours.

[MrGongGong]

I thought it was (a) to make lazy people listen, (b) to compensate for inadequately designed instruments and weak singers, © to pretend that music can sound good outdoors, (d) to compensate for badly balanced orchestration.

May I suggest that you go to a few events like this

http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2013/june/live-and-acousmatic-electroacoustic-music

[W.Kearns]

Thanks, Vox Humana and Caliban (!) for your well-considered answers to a probably unanswerable question. I'd like to see the Abbey resolve this conflict of interest courteously and off its own bat without expecting the local authority to ride in to its rescue.

[mercia]

http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/environment/pollution/noise-pollution/busking

Under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 noise in the street from musical instruments may be a statutory nuisance and the Local Authority is able to take legal action to abate the nuisance and prohibit or restrict its recurrence; this may include the seizure of musical instruments and amplification equipment.

that a funeral service should be disrupted I think is appalling

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

May I suggest that you go to a few events like this

http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2013/ju...acoustic-music

Why? What have I done wrong?

[MrGongGong]

Why? What have I done wrong?

You might love it

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

You might love it

I might love being whipped, but I'd rather not try it.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Acoustic events in Peasholm Park, Scarborough consist of an electronic keyboard, electric and bass guitars and an amplified singer. Real acoustical music is beyond their comprehension.

[MrGongGong]

I might love being whipped, but I'd rather not try it.

I tell you what
I'll come with you to listen to Elgar
you come with me to hear Denis Smalley

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I tell you what
I'll come with you to listen to Elgar
you come with me to hear Denis Smalley

But I know you like Elgar - though your views on The Dream of Gerontius are well known.

[MrGongGong]

But I know you like Elgar - though your views on The Dream of Gerontius are well known.

You have yet to discover the joys of Smalley
(oh to be so young and innocent again )

[Flosshilde]

Real acoustical music is beyond their comprehension.

As is real amplified music beyond yours Some instruments, & some music, are designed to be used with amplification. (Oh, & haven't you said that if Bach had been alive today he would have used the latest technology for his music - so there's no reason not to use amplified & electronic instruments)

[french frank]

Some instruments, & some music, are designed to be used with amplification

Isn't that sort of amplification to make the music audible rather than to make it very, very loud?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

(Oh, & haven't you said that if Bach had been alive today he would have used the latest technology for his music - so there's no reason not to use amplified & electronic instruments)

Touche.