Radio 4 has been Ulysiezed!

[Old Grumpy]

Just looking forward to Counterpoint tonight to find that Radio 4 has been Wrighted, with regular programming replaced by a mini-Ulyssesathon!

Now where have I come across this before?

[LeMartinPecheur]

"Ulysiezed"

Spelling!

x100

[Bryn]

Just looking forward to Counterpoint tonight to find that Radio 4 has been Wrighted, with regular programming replaced by a mini-Ulyssesathon!

Now where have I come across this before?

RTE in June 16th to 17th 1982? Only they really did it the Wright way, a continuous 29 hour 45 minute broadcast of a dramatisation of the complete text.

[jayne lee wilson]

Never mind Ulysses, what about Anita Anand as presenter of Any Answers?

The rushed, breathless delivery, the awkward pauses and misplaced emphases... reminded me of someone with the initials KD.

Utter disaster. A favourite programme ruined.

Martha Kearney, Emily Maitliss, Eddie Mair, Nick Robinson...? All too busy or something?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just looking forward to Counterpoint tonight to find that Radio 4 has been Wrighted, with regular programming replaced by a mini-Ulyssesathon!

What is a "mini-Ulyssesathon"?

Had R4 abandoned its entire regular schedules in order to broadcast the entire work of Joyce, the implied similarities with Wright's composerthons would have been valid. As, instead, they've replaced only some of the regular programmes with dramatised excerpts from Ulysses, they aren't. The nearest similarity is when a broadcast of Gotterdammerung (a "mini-Ringathon"?) removes the Jazz programmes from R3.

My only complaint about this wonderful event is that it wasn't on R3.

[MrGongGong]

My only complaint about this wonderful event is that it wasn't on R3.

And why not have related music ?

I haven't heard this for ages

http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/music/marsh_ourselves.html

or

http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/music/cage.html

etc etc etc

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And why not have related music ?

YES! Such opportunities wasted: Joyce-themed Jazz programmes; Music Matters from Dublin; Hear & Now with works by Berio, Cage, Saunders, replays of neglected work (I've never heard the Roger Marsh) and new commissions.

Ho-Hum; maybe in a parallel universe?

[Word]

... someone with the initials KD

The rushed delivery

perhaps, if you struggle to keep up

breathless delivery

no

the awkward pauses

no

and misplaced emphases

and no again so a pointless, flawed comparison.

I didn't hear Anita Anand and Any Answers so can't judge the accuracy of the comments with regards to that but, given the above, would feel inclined to approach the programme with an open mind.


(Back on topic - nice thread title )

[Serial_Apologist]

Never mind Ulysses, what about Anita Anand as presenter of Any Answers?

The rushed, breathless delivery, the awkward pauses and misplaced emphases... reminded me of someone with the initials KD.

Utter disaster. A favourite programme ruined.

Yes yes yes yes YESSS!!!!!

And I had been so looking forward to Dimbletoes stepping down...

[Serial_Apologist]

I didn't hear Anita Anand and Any Answers but feel inclined to approach the programme with an open mind.

Nothing new there then...

[vinteuil]

Nothing new there then...

... do we surmise that "Word" is an agent, not only for Ms K Derham, but also for Ms A Anand??

[Serial_Apologist]

YES! Such opportunities wasted: Joyce-themed Jazz programmes; Music Matters from Dublin; Hear & Now with works by Berio, Cage, Saunders, replays of neglected work (I've never heard the Roger Marsh) and new commissions.

Ho-Hum; maybe in a parallel universe?

One where modern music meant MODERN, maybe???

That said, I DID enjoy the Ferneyhough piano piece last night - and the Hugh Wood Second String Quartet on H&N which followed, though I magine he must have composed it a good while ago. As to the rest...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

One where modern music meant MODERN, maybe???

... and where a "macmillangeliebte" bemoans the paucity of broadcasts of bland Music?

That said, I DID enjoy the Ferneyhough piano piece last night - and the Hugh Wood Second String Quartet on H&N which followed, though I magine he must have composed it a good while ago. As to the rest...

Thanks for that: I'd forgotten that Lemma-Icon-Epigram was to be broadcast (it isn't mentioned on the website!) and Wood doesn't do much for me (every five years or so, I put on the Piano Concerto, optimistically .... ).

The Second S4tet dates from 1970.

[jayne lee wilson]

They might even have stretched to Skalkottas' thunderous epic, The Return of Ulysses...but I guess, there's a couple of recordings, so it's back in the draw for another decade or two...

Was that on-topic, bit tangential perhaps? Word-up! Word-down!

[Old Grumpy]

What is a "mini-Ulyssesathon"?

Had R4 abandoned its entire regular schedules in order to broadcast the entire work of Joyce, the implied similarities with Wright's composerthons would have been valid. As, instead, they've replaced only some of the regular programmes with dramatised excerpts from Ulysses, they aren't. The nearest similarity is when a broadcast of Gotterdammerung (a "mini-Ringathon"?) removes the Jazz programmes from R3.

My only complaint about this wonderful event is that it wasn't on R3.

Yes fhg - removal of the Jazz programmes by even a mini-Ringathon justifies 5 X in my book!

OG