Radio 3 Portraits' Day ???

[Stillhomewardbound]

You have got to be kidding me!

This isn't a radio network anymore, it's a freakin' theme-park dreamed up by a bunch of the most feeble mediocrities.

SHB

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I rather expected it to be portraits of Katie Derham and other presenters.

[Frances_iom]

I rather expected it to be portraits of Katie Derham and other presenters.

that's next year - once they've dispensed with the serious music and the presenter becomes the main focus - I guess Kath Jenkins might then star as featured artist of the week in her role as major opera star - maybe the ROH is allow a special gala concert tho I undrstand she needs a microphone for anything larger than a clothes closet.

[Stillhomewardbound]

... a clothes closet.

Sounds so much like 'a closed closet'. What a smashing idea, with a key, that might just go missing!

[Nick Armstrong]

You have got to be kidding me!

This isn't a radio network anymore, it's a freakin' theme-park dreamed up by a bunch of the most feeble mediocrities.

SHB

It's a shite idea, isn't it

What's the point?!

[MrGongGong]

Nothing wrong with a few portraits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7m_xLRP6wk

(we seem to have "serious" music back again ? and I thought R3 was marginalising Jazz http://www.jazzscript.co.uk/books/freewilmer.htm)

[Stillhomewardbound]

Mr.Caliban, I do like your prosaic tones!! I've a good mind to head over to the National Portrait Gallery this after and blow a big raspberry over one of Sean Rafferty's links. I hope that have a legion of buckets and mops to clean up all the gush he'll emit on to the gallery parquet.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

tho I undrstand she needs a microphone for anything larger than a clothes closet.

The wife of the late Max Jaffa performed Elgar's Sea Pictures in Scarborough with a microphone.

[LeMartinPecheur]

It's a shite idea, isn't it

What's the point?!

Well, I only listened to the early morning bit (before 9am) but it seemed to be giving the presenters an excuse to broadcast some pretty obsure but worthwhile music.

Which is what I thought many boarders were in favour of...

[Alison]

Always a pleasure to hear D O N

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Always a pleasure to hear D O N

From Pli selonPli: a portrait of Mallarmé?

[DracoM]

Abraham Lincoln? Plus Mayor La Guardia - of New York?
Erm.........??

Who the heck dreams this guff up?

[mercia]

I think Copland dreamt up the Lincoln guff
the second half was Elgar guff

[french frank]

And your point is, aka CdaJ?

Another promotional event aimed at the media. Doesn't mean that during the course of an entire day it couldn't produce some extremely interesting material - but what's the point if only Radio 3 listeners take any notice?

Alternatively, it could broadcast the best material in a single programme - or even in one of the occasional, now long-forgotten, 'evenings'.