A Specialist Classical Music Radio Station

[BBMmk2]

I be going to 'Wheeler Court' soon! So I be able to hold 'Court' in my own 'Wheeler''.

[Nick Armstrong]

I be going to 'Wheeler Court' soon! So I be able to hold 'Court' in my own 'Wheeler''.

That's wheelie good news, Bbm!



(Anyone remember where I put me coat?)

[BBMmk2]

That's wheelie good news, Bbm!



(Anyone remember where I put me coat?)

[Tevot]

In the wheelie bin of course !!!

[vinteuil]

British music shall have a prime individual slot

... yep, already agreed. First Thursday of every month, from 03:00 - 03:30hrs...

[Nick Armstrong]

... yep, already agreed. First Thursday of every month, from 03:00 - 03:30hrs...

He's in a world of his own, readers!

[teamsaint]

another good thing that In Tune (or its classier , groovier successor) could usefully do is to flag up all those concerts taking place where rarely heard repertoire is being performed, as per Simon B's brilliant post elsewhere.

or we could just do a new thread .............

by the way, did anybody notice a slight off topic wobble just now?

[agingjb]

With unlimited funds I might try to recreate something like the Third Program (and the Listener) online. I'd be a bit cagy about providing an associated forum for people to tell me I was doing it entirely in the wrong way.

[amateur51]

With unlimited funds I might try to recreate something like the Third Program (and the Listener) online. I'd be a bit cagy about providing an associated forum for people to tell me I was doing it entirely in the wrong way.

If it's your money, then you have no need to, of course. The BBC is spending our money but it chooses not to listen to our protests about the wrong direction that we feel they have taken.

[Anna]

by the way, did anybody notice a slight off topic wobble just now?

No ... Well, no more than usual!
On this new Station, could there be a pledge for no more total immersions and tweets are banned? And can we have speech programmes about poetry, and drama which doesn't end at midnight on a Sunday? And, all those little programmes like they have on Radio 4 about keys, composition, etc., could there be some of those? And could Catherine Bott & Lucie Skeaping be given total carte blanche and an enormous budget to do whatever they wanted? Oh, and will a Choral Evensong type programme be scheduled to include Orthodox and RC masses?
(I don't ask for much!)

[mangerton]

.......... And a weekly programme of organ music, but not where organs are "put through their paces"?

[BBMmk2]

Indeed Mangerton! Properly thought out and scholarly programmes.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

[it might be cheaper to invent a time machine] ........

there must be a few dozen or so composers who are not getting new works played .... Premieres? [except no more ripping off Gil Evans]

and of course the new avante garde could have no place nor regard for Viennese and Darmstadt stuff ... passe, smothering conformity eh?

[EdgeleyRob]

Come the revolution might there be room for this type of programme.

From Wiki 'Created in 1967, BBC Radio 3 was dedicated primarily to broadcasting live and recorded performances of classical music. Derek Jewell hosted what was known as the only "rock" show on the radio station, the weekly Sounds Interesting, although in addition to rock, Jewell hosted performers playing a wide range of experimental and even improvisational music'.

I remember SI with great affection.

[BBMmk2]

Yes that does bring back memories. Certai9nly with the BBC's policy on listeni9ng to what it's audience wants, I don't think they are listening to us? :(

I hope forummites wont mind an occaisional series on wind and brass band music?