'Classic FM-ification'

[Paul Sherratt]

>>Wagon Wheels used to be bigger, too.

Are you sure ?
It may be that you were smaller !

[Pabmusic]

>>Wagon Wheels used to be bigger, too.

Are you sure ?
It may be that you were smaller !

Wow! All those years and I never twigged!

[Paul Sherratt]

>>All those years and I never twigged!
And I bet you never inhaled, either.

http://www.nileguide.com/destination...7/twiglets.jpg

[Pabmusic]

>>All those years and I never twigged!
And I bet you never inhaled, either.

http://www.nileguide.com/destination...7/twiglets.jpg

Tried not to, but you know how it is...

[old khayyam]

So, back to the original topic (no pun intended): Yesterday around 18:00, was that the same American being interviewed as the one on Monday? Or are they finding a different one for each day of the week?

[Caliban]

No idea, ok... but talking about sameness:

I switched off the radio last night to sleep, and this was playing:

12:47 AM
Elgar, Edward
Serenade for Strings (Op.20)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, James Ehnes (director)

I switched on the radio on awaking to hear this at about 09:05 AM

Sir Edward Elgar
Serenade for Strings
Sinfonia of London, John Barbirolli (conductor)

For a few confused moments I thought I'd forgotten to switch off the radio and had just dozed off for a couple of minutes...

But no.

It was Radio Elgar

I love Elgar (though I do think the S for S is one of his drippier pieces)... but still...

[Bax-of-Delights]

Here at B-o-D Towers we tend to leave the radio on in the kitchen full-time in what, I am sure, is a misguided belief that any prowlers intent on entering the premises on nefarious business might hesitate if a radio is playing and assume that someone is in. I work elsewhere in the house and normally plunder my CD collection for the 5 hour slot until noon but just occasionally I write in silence with the faint sound of R3's "Essential Classics" wafting through the corridors. I cannot believe how R3 has become such a mirror image of Classic FM with its constant regurgitation of the same material over and over.
Albinoni's Adagio
Mozart's Horn Concerto
Resphigi's: Birds
Elgar: Serenade for Strings
this morning and looking back at earlier this week I see the same old warhorses:
Stravinsky: Firebird
Prokofiev: Lt.Kije
Rodrigo: Concerto de Aranjuez

etc etc etc.

[french frank]

Just back from my visit to R3's facebook, and from the In Tune producer:

"And there's good stuff on the show today too: early Sondheim (and I mean early - he was 22) performed by RADA students. We've the folk singer-songwriter-guitarist Martin Simpson. And the conductor/composer Carl Davis who's about to conduct a concert of music by John Williams. I want to ask Carl about his score for the 1927 silent movie 'Napoleon' ..."

and I'm like, and? and? and? But that seems to be it in terms of advance info.

[old khayyam]

Well i would like to reiterate my view that, without intending any offence to individual persons, the so-called 'Classic FM-ification' is much more understandable as 'Americanisation'. I've heard an American being interviewed every evening for the past week (apart from one other accent to throw us off the scent).

I remember the R4 forum carrying many similar complaints and have stopped listening to R4 for the same reason.

Every nation has its high culture and low culture. Had R3 simply lowered its intellectual content, we would have only that to contend with. But they have given the game away by filling the programming with Americans and their music as often as they can get away with.

[Bax-of-Delights]

Just back from my visit to R3's facebook, and from the In Tune producer:

"And there's good stuff on the show today too: early Sondheim (and I mean early - he was 22) performed by RADA students. We've the folk singer-songwriter-guitarist Martin Simpson. And the conductor/composer Carl Davis who's about to conduct a concert of music by John Williams. I want to ask Carl about his score for the 1927 silent movie 'Napoleon' ..."

and I'm like, and? and? and? But that seems to be it in terms of advance info.

You missed out the really interesting information though FF: the saga of the chocolate Babkas and how everyone but everyone in the In Tune office was tearing them to bits and yadda yadda yaddda....

As if I cared.