Controller's Monthly Note

[Globaltruth]

All those months of niggling and prodding away - clearly as a direct result of this thread, the Kontroller leads his monthly n.letter:

DISTANT WORLDS

Some while ago there was an advertisement which asked, ‘Where do you want to go today?’ I remembered it as I was looking through the Radio 3 schedule for June. Each day the station takes us to places outside our normal lives, giving us the chance to become immersed in different worlds. Radio at its best can offer this experience, taking us on journeys of discovery. Tomorrow evening in Between The Ears we are going in search of the Balinese Scarecrow, finding the hidden life of this fascinating Indonesian island. Gamelan orchestras practise hidden from tourist eyes; slit gongs call the children to school, and music is offered to the Gods. Even the scarecrows make music - from bamboo chimes to rusty tin cans, shaken by the farmers and the wind. In looking for the most musical scarecrow, we encounter the sounds of gamelan and wildlife as well as the composers and choreographers who are inspired by these sounds.

Thanks

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[Lateralthinking1]

All those months of niggling and prodding away - clearly as a direct result of this thread, the Kontroller leads his monthly n.letter:



Thanks
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Sounds great. By contrast, rifling through my family photograph album was very uncalled for. If you really have to include one from that marvellous publication, make it this one please. Quite reasonable seeing that everyone in it apart from me is over 70: -

[Lateralthinking1]

.........I like this one - http://aso.gov.au/titles/music/the-h...vention/clip1/

[Globaltruth]

On Tuesday (31st July), we have a late-night concert from the third of our young World Routes Academy featured artists, José Hernando Arias Noguera, a 20-year-old accordionist and singer who will be performing with his mentor, the accordionist Egidio Cuadrado with his own band from Bogotà

Thanks for the reminder Controller.

[Globaltruth]

Beating all previous records by several tens of words, World Music type stuff gets its own, dedicated para viz:

INDIA
In the next weeks, we have some programmes focussing on India. In the Sunday Feature, Jatinder Verma examines growing tension between religious life and modern society, concentrating on the place of the ascetic. Following that, we turn to another side of India, as Ibsen's ground-breaking play, A Doll's House, is transposed to Calcutta by Tanika Gupta. Nora, an Indian woman married a colonial administrator, risks her reputation to save her husband, and in the process discovers herself. Finally on Sunday, World Routes takes us to the Darbar Festival of Indian classical music with Lopa Kothari. Performed closer to home at the Purcell Room, the programme of North Indian music features ragas on the bamboo flute and the surbahar, or bass sitar. There is a second instalment of music from the Darbar Festival next weekend, and on the evening of Sunday 14th Jatinder Verma will be examining India's relationship with Kashmir, following the eruption of violence in the region in 1989.

Swoons.

[Globaltruth]

Monthly note returns to 'normal' with zero mention of World Music, although a place North of Watford does get a mention.

I do hope this is not the beginning of any kind of descent...

[Globaltruth]

Another month, another zero mention apart from this:

We will also be hearing Turkey‚s best-selling woman novelist, Elif Shafak, on her growing interest in Rumi, the mystic poet who features in her writing.

Several people have set certain of Rumi's poems to music, most notably, as I hope I recall correctly, Nusrat Fateh Khan.

[Globaltruth]

He shoots, he scores, it's that time of year when his Rajarness does his minority bit.

WORLD MUSIC

The same evening (18th) we also head live to Glasgow, and a special late-night performance from the Celtic Connections festival, presented by Mary Ann Kennedy. Scottish and Irish music form the centre of the festival, but it also embraces other Celtic cultures, and in recent years the range has extended still further. The line-up is always kept secret until the day of the event. It promises to be another lively evening, and there will be another on the 25th.

And this Sunday evening (6th), make sure to listen to the first of our two World Routes tributes to Ravi Shankar, who died on December 11th. Lucy Duran introduces a performance of Raga Jog, Ravi Shankar's first recording from 1956. The following week, we hear him play Raga Kaushi Kanhara, from his classic live recording at Carnegie Hall in 2000.

[Globaltruth]

Controller's Monthly note - Feb = zero score for anything other than classical.

Although to be fair RW does close by saying

Radio 3, the home of classical music indeed, but I hope you get chance to sample our full range of distinctive programming. Thanks as ever for your interest in the station.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

where is this perfidious text is there a link please? .... simply can not locate it from r3 home page

and who is Graham Kay why is he all over the r3 Home Page and why does he know nothing about Jazz?

[Globaltruth]

where is this perfidious text is there a link please? .... simply can not locate it from r3 home page

and who is Graham Kay why is he all over the r3 Home Page and why does he know nothing about Jazz?

Here you go....

February 2013

Welcome to the Controller's Monthly Note

Dear All

Radio 3 listeners regularly have the chance to hear discussions of history, and, even more often, music broadcasts. In Saturday Classics, starting tomorrow afternoon, we are bringing these strands together, as four prominent historians are our guest presenters: Simon Schama, Bettany Hughes, Dan Snow and Lucy Worsley. Kicking off the series, Simon Schama gives a personal view of the period from 1913 to the eve of the Second World War, which includes the first performance of Stravinsky‚s Rite of Spring. The following week, Bettany Hughes travels back in time to contemplate the sounds of antiquity, and their influence on composers across time; as well as music by Beethoven, Debussy and Handel, we will hear recreations of Greek and Roman music.

OPERA

It is a big year for opera on R3 with three operatic anniversaries - Verdi, Wagner and Britten. There will be plenty of other operatic music too. Tomorrow, we return live to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, this time for Rossini's comic opera Le Comte Ory. Though it received a first New York performance in 1831, only three years after the Parisian premiere, it has been rarely heard at the Met or elsewhere. The story is one of love, disguise and mistaken identity, within a medieval setting and involving soldiers returning from the Crusades. It is a chance to hear the great singing of Juan Diego Florez in the title role.

The following week we cross the Atlantic again for Donizetti‚s L‚ Elisir d‚Amore, a witty and sparkling work, starring Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzani. Don‚t also forget our Thursday international matinees. This week we hear from the Vienna State Opera, where we can hear Franz Welser-Möst conducting Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos.

Sunday‚s Drama on 3 also has an operatic connection. A new play by Craig Warner, inspired by Puccini's Tosca, is set against the background of an oppressive regime. Scarpia's musings on the nature of power and his love for Tosca, give way to a cat-and-mouse game. Stephen Dillane plays Scarpia, Kate Fleetwood Tosca, and Joseph Millson Cavaradossi.

COMPOSER OF THE WEEK

The English 18th-century has been dominated by the figure of Handel, sometimes to the neglect of home-grown talent. So it is good to hear from Charles Avison and John Stanley starting as joint Composers of the Week from Monday. Geographically, they represent a wide span, with Stanley working in London and Avison in Newcastle, testimony to the vitality of musical performance across the UK. Both overcame challenges to attain their respected positions; the week introduces us to their attractive music together with the disputes and polemics which characterised the period.

In the following week, starting on the 11th, we have Gershwin as our featured composer. On Wednesday, there is a rare chance to hear part of the original-cast recording of his only work for the London stage, Primrose, a comedy influenced by Gilbert and Sullivan.

THE STORY OF MUSIC

Many of you might have seen the beginning of the BBC 2 series, The Story of Music, on Saturday evening. On Radio 3, in The Story of Music in 50 Pieces, Howard Goodall, in conversation with Suzy Klein, explores his personal choice of fifty compositions that changed the course of music history.

These range from Hildegard von Bingen to Steve Reich, and you can follow them in Essential Classics on weekdays at 11am and at 5.30pm on In Tune. Each conversation is available as a download from the Radio 3 website.

Running concurrently, we have a new series of Radio 3's Question Time, as comedian Sue Perkins joins Tom Service every Monday evening in our concert interval. They are dealing with your questions about everything musical; over five episodes Sue and Tom will be considering questions such as why music makes us dance; the origins of 'major' and 'minor'; why there are eight or twelve notes in a scale, and questions of cultural differences.

THE IDEA OF SIN

Traditionally, Lent is a time in the Christian calendar when people contemplate their mortality and weakness. On our station the Rev. Richard Coles is going to take us through the darker side of human nature in a three-part series in our Sunday Feature strand called The Idea of Sin, starting on February 10th. He is going to explore ideas of sin from the dawn of ethical structures, the ideas of guilt and retribution, and tormented souls of the medieval period and Dante. He starts in Italy where you can find graphic illustrations of the consequences of sin: the Baptistery of the cathedral in Florence and Giotto's frescos of the Last Judgement in Padua. For musical and spiritual contemplation of the same theme, we have our live Choral Evensong from St John‚s College, Cambridge on Ash Wednesday, including Allegri‚s beautiful Miserere and Tallis‚s sombre motet In ieiunio et fletu.

And now to flag something completely different - do tune in tomorrow for what promises to be a quirky programme in Between the Ears: A is for Aardvark. Just turn to the first page in any business directory and Aardvark companies abound. Oral historian Alan Dein interviews Britain‚s ŒAardvarks‚ to see what makes them seek pride of place and at the same time he ponders the actual aardvark. Why would any business want to be named after such a creature?

Finally, Radio 3 is bringing together a number of its Newsletters to provide a more regular supply of information to subscribers, about current and future highlights of the network‚s output, on a new and improved mailing list management system. If you are already subscribed to one of the newsletters previously published by Radio 3 you need do nothing to receive the new weekly Radio 3 newsletter automatically. Should you wish to discontinue your subscription(s), you will be able to do so at any time from the new Newsletters. We will publish more information on this change soon.

Radio 3, the home of classical music indeed, but I hope you get chance to sample our full range of distinctive programming. Thanks as ever for your interest in the station.

With best wishes

Roger Wright
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[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

many thanks, i thought it was a blog [does he stilll do that?] and am now a happy subscriber

but he did not write that note, a staffer did and he crossed the odd i and dotted the cross bars ... it reads like one of those Christmas Letter Updates from etc ....

[Globaltruth]

many thanks, i thought it was a blog [does he stilll do that?] and am now a happy subscriber

but he did not write that note, a staffer did and he crossed the odd i and dotted the cross bars ... it reads like one of those Christmas Letter Updates from etc ....

Ah well, the blogs have a "new look"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio3/posts/New-look-for-the-Radio-3-Blog

(NB the second post shows that those boys have been popping into the Tardis again - dated 10 months into the future. Wonder what won the Grand National??)

and, guess what, they're open for comments....

But Roger never really got on with his, and, almost a year to the day it was left to quietly fester and die...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogradio3/authors/Roger_Wright

[Lateralthinking1]

Everything above Perkins suggests that they are really trying hard to get the approach to classical music right and to some extent succeeding. Everything below and including Perkins suggests that they have lost the plot. The entire document shows that the BBC not only has no commitment to world music and jazz but is flaunting it. Let's change the name of them to Aardvarkmusic.

[Globaltruth]

Pleased to announce that the Controller wins this month's prize for the number of times that the name 'Britten' can be mentioned in a single edition.

Final Score:

Britten: 23
World Music: 0