Touched a nerve at THE Wigmore Hall

[MrGongGong]

Of course it's always The Wigmore Hall.
.

Formerly known as The Bechstein Hall

[french frank]

....there was a prog about cats (+ cat vid's) this morn....

Wasn't that on R4? Anyway, on R3's Fb it's managed to get 90 Likes and an unprecedented 33 comments. We can either be glad that it keeps trivia off the airwaves or be very afraid that the evident popularity will encourage a new daily topic for Essential Classics.

[visualnickmos]

I was wondering about this blocking. Never used Twitter, but I am registered as a user. Radio 3, has gone overboard to garner tweets. Do they block critical (say, but not abusive) twitter users?

If so it is restricting comment to block someone because they are just questioning, or even disapproving of the subject matter. In the case of the BBC how does that square with free speech, and their charter obligations (or their "values").

And in the case of everyone else, how does it relate to the terms of use of Twitter (not that Twitter would care much).

I did look for somewhere other than Twitter (or facebook which again I do not use) to register support for the DPP when the Greville Janner decision was reversed. And to protest at the the hounding (to resignation or was it dismissal) in the case of Prof Tim Hunt. I didn't find anywhere.

The enraged social media users, publicists, media advisors and the gutter, tabloid and ordinarily flawed press channels seem to control the agenda and exert undue influence.

Which begs the question; what's the point of the b****y silly thing in the first place???

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

and while we're at it, can we have back 'the Tate GALLERY'

Which one?

[MrGongGong]

Which one?

Any one of the ones built by the scally slave masters

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Any one of the ones built by the scally slave masters

Yes, but then they can't be called "THE Tate Gallery".

[ardcarp]

Formerly known as The Bechstein Hall

I think it was actually called Bechstein Hall (before it was nicked by our government during WW1) just as Steinway Hall is [pretentiously?] known now. There is (or was until recently) an old-fashioned fire hose backstage at THE Wigmore with a brass nozzle upon which is stamped 'Bechstein Hall'.

What gets my goat is the current vogue for 'playing piano' or 'playing clarinet'...but maybe I'll decamp to pedants' corner.

What's all this tweet stuff about anyway?

[VodkaDilc]

What gets my goat is the current vogue for 'playing piano' or 'playing clarinet'...but maybe I'll decamp to pedants' corner.

People who say that are simply wrong.

[Stillhomewardbound]

Which one?

That was the utter nonsense of it. 'Tate MODERN' was entirely sufficient. After all, if you want to achieve a brand moniker for something that is a progression of a long established entity, then all well and good, but by what absurdity it is felt necessary then to rebrand the starting point??!!!

Actually, I've answered my own question. Yes, it is all about branding, isn't it?

Anyone for '2ennis'?!

[jean]

People who say that are simply wrong.

Or American.

[MrGongGong]

So let me get this straight
some folks are REALLY annoyed at calling it

THE Wigmore Hall
and
Piano (without the THE)

Has Matt Johnson got the right idea?

[Lento]

The tweet thing should be stamped on, in my, if puritanical, view. For humour and other general chat, perhaps use a special twitter account (e.g. Festival Hall Piano) and not one used for info re concerts, artists and the like.

[Flosshilde]

Some years ago the Glasgow School of Art underwent a branding exercise, after which it was to be called The Glasgow School of Art.

[jean]

So let me get this straight
some folks are REALLY annoyed at calling it

THE Wigmore Hall...

No, I don't think you have got it straight.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

My cousin lives in Gateshead, not far from The Sage. He tells me that since they started being silly, calling it Sage Gateshead, it hasn't made a shred of difference to the way the locals refer to it (i.e. "The Sage"). My theory is that Gateshead suffers from the same feeling of subservience as other towns and cities adjacent to larger ones - Salford, Hove, Newcastle-under-Lyme - and they want to be noticed. Fortunately, they haven't yet started calling The Lowry "Lowry Salford", the Barbican "Barbican London" or the Bridgewater Hall "Bridgewater Manchester".