Music Nation

[Frances_iom]

has anyone managed to listen to this mismash of easy listening, presenter waffle and mismatched items ? - Just what function is it supposed to play?

[DracoM]

Yes, a tiny bit. eg the Karl Jenkins 'music'.

[french frank]

has anyone managed to listen to this mismash of easy listening, presenter waffle and mismatched items ? - Just what function is it supposed to play?

It's a BBC-cum-London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games joint event. Having taken it on, the BBC then wondered where they could hide it.

[Serial_Apologist]

It's a BBC-cum-London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games joint event. Having taken it on, the BBC then wondered where they could hide it.

Probably in the drawer where they store the joints.

[Frances_iom]

Yes, a tiny bit. eg the Karl Jenkins 'music'.

but he was billed as the great Welsh composer - did he have anything to say, judsging from his string quartet very little I suspect - apparently he holds some awrd for best muzak for use in lifts .

Are we going to have another 3 months of this nonsense linking some expensive sports day (do they have three legged races) with music and culture ?

[Norfolk Born]

I quite enjoyed the new Joubert cello concerto. The orchestra was announced on air as the 'National Chamber Orchestra', but in the Radio Times it's the 'Northern Chamber Orchestra', which I believe is correct. Perhaps DM was too distrracted by the vexed question of how to pronounce Shrewsbury.

[MrGongGong]

I enjoyed the BCMG gig on Saturday

[VodkaDilc]

Yes, a tiny bit. eg the Karl Jenkins 'music'.

I think I might have heard part of this. I expected to turn on for Choral Evensong during a car journey yesterday. Instead I heard a strange overblown concoction. I thought it might have been some film music - perhaps from one of the Planet of the Apes sequels (the music from the original film was much superior.) It turned out to be by Jenkins - doesn't he belong on Classic FM - with Einaudi?

[Brassbandmaestro]

R3 dumbing down again! Glad I missed it!

[MrGongGong]

R3dumbing down again! Glad I missed it!

hummm

I didn't think the gig I listened to was "dumbed down" at all