The Eight Composers you couldn't Live Without. 8 only, no additions,no other rules

[MrGongGong]

Just catching up with the posts after a day with family.

According to the BBCMM Dame Ethel Smyth is Composer of the Week from 4th November.

Were any women composers chosen? Not even Hilda Tablet ?

I have

Eliane Radigue

(but definitely NOT Ethel Smyth ........ Though I'm performing a Hildegard Westerkamp piece today and Meredith Monk , Ellen Fullman and Pauline Oliveros would be in my next 8 )

[antongould]

I have

Eliane Radigue

(but definitely NOT Ethel Smyth ........ Though I'm performing a Hildegard Westerkamp piece today and Meredith Monk , Ellen Fullman and Pauline Oliveros would be in my next 8 )

I've quite liked the bits of DES I have heard on R3 so I am looking forward to COTW.....

[salymap]

Am I the only one to remember the wonderful Third Programme spoof about Dame Hilda Tablet and her great opera 'Emily Butter'?

The sort of programme I still miss.

[Demetrius]

According to the BBCMM Dame Ethel Smyth is Composer of the Week from 4th November.

though she doesn't quite make the top 8 with me having heard only her mass. As for woman composers, Louise Farrenc and Elizabeth Maconchy would join her in a top 20 or 30 list.

Top 8, roughly in order of preference:
Elgar
Beethoven
Shostakovich
Rubbra
Schubert
Cipriani Potter
Kalliwoda
Bruckner

[EdgeleyRob]

I've quite liked the bits of DES I have heard on R3 so I am looking forward to COTW.....

Me too.

[jean]

I'd put Barbara Strozzi in a top 20 or 30 list, mand Hildegarde of Bingen in a rather shorter one - I see she's featured in one or two of the other lists.

Am I the only one to remember the wonderful Third Programme spoof about Dame Hilda Tablet and her great opera 'Emily Butter'?

No you aren't - but I think I was too young to understand. I'd love to hear the programmes again.

[salymap]

I'd put Barbara Strozzi in a top 20 or 30 list, mand Hildegarde of Bingen in a rather shorter one - I see she's featured in one or two of the other lists.


No you aren't - but I think I was too young to understand. I'd love to hear the programmes again.

So would I jean. There was something about it on the old boards a year or two ago but I can't find it.I think it was written by Henry {?] Reed and had awonderful cast.

From the recesses of what I call my memory, there were episodes called...

Not a drum was heard
A hedge backwards
The private life of Hilda Tablet
Emily Butter

[mercia]

Hilda Tablet

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

[Mary Chambers]

Wasn't Emily Butter originally going to be called Milly Mudd? I'm sure I read that somewhere.

[Serial_Apologist]

Hilda Tablet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLgkixlJttE

I'd heard of HT before but never bothered finding out anything about it; but this is wonderful - and completely overturns my abiding impression of the BBC and especially Radio 3's forerunner being a stuffy hidebound stiff-upper-lip sort of a place in the 1950s. Whoever sponsored this series was enlightened, and I'm in no doubt that the kind of satire of manners portrayed must have paved the way for that of Beyond the Fringe, TW3 and the Footlights revue. The later Hinge and Bracket is clumsy and high camp by comparison.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Whoever sponsored this series was enlightened, and I'm in no doubt that the kind of satire of manners portrayed must have paved the way for that of Beyond the Fringe, TW3 and the Footlights revue.

From the days when the Third Programme could parody itself (unlike today where R3 has become a parody of itself - and wouldn't be able to tell the difference if its life depended on it.)

The later Hinge and Bracket is clumsy and high camp by comparison.

No need for the last two words IMO, S_A.

[salymap]

I'd heard of HT before but never bothered finding out
anything about it; but this is wonderful - and completely overturns my abiding impression of the BBC and especially Radio 3's forerunner being a stuffy hidebound stiff-upper-lip sort of a place in the 1950s. Whoever sponsored this series was enlightened, and I'm in no doubt that the kind of satire of manners portrayed must have paved the way for that of Beyond the Fringe, TW3 and the Footlights revue.

I was in my early 20s and working in music and word soon got around about the series,beautifully
cast and performed with the sort of style that came later as you say.

Surely there must be tapes somewhere in the Beeb basement.


The point was there was no playing to an audience, canned laughter or gimmicks. It was so well done it's never been bettered IMHO.

[Anna]

I'd heard of HT before but never bothered finding out anything about it; but this is wonderful - and completely overturns my abiding impression of the BBC and especially Radio 3's forerunner being a stuffy hidebound stiff-upper-lip sort of a place in the 1950s. Whoever sponsored this series was enlightened, and I'm in no doubt that the kind of satire of manners portrayed must have paved the way for that of Beyond the Fringe, TW3 and the Footlights revue

[alycidon]

Bach
Brahms
Beethoven
Schumann
Mozart
Elgar
Finzi
Mendelssohn

I'm nothing, if not predictable!

[salymap]

Bach
Brahms
Beethoven
Schumann
Mozart
Elgar
Finzi
Mendelssohn

I'm nothing, if not predictable!

I prefer reliable or dependable Alycidon