The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[kernelbogey]

I have been wondering about this kb …. has there been any official announcement…. ????? Have Aunt Daisy and ff been consulted …. ???

I don't have answers, Anton. I have stopped listening to anything on R3 other than TTN; that occasionally drifts into the first half hour of Breakfast. But Tom M doesn't suit me. I'd probably return to Saturday Breakfast if she's now permanently there.

[LMcD]

I don't have answers, Anton. I have stopped listening to anything on R3 other than TTN; that occasionally drifts into the first half hour of Breakfast. But Tom M doesn't suit me. I'd probably return to Saturday Breakfast if she's now permanently there.

'Join Hannah every Saturday' (BBC Radio 3 schedules). She's definitely on duty for the next 2 Saturdays.

[antongould]

'Join Hannah every Saturday' (BBC Radio 3 schedules). She's definitely on duty for the next 2 Saturdays.

Thank you Sir, problem solved …… I think …..

[antongould]

'Join Hannah every Saturday' (BBC Radio 3 schedules). She's definitely on duty for the next 2 Saturdays.

Enjoyed this Saturday’s programme …… I find her a natural radio performer ……

[AuntDaisy]

Just caught a bit of Breakfast with Hamish MacCunn's "The Land of the Mountain and the Flood"...
It was also on Hannah French's Breakfast a few weeks ago - but his time Tom M didn't mention "Sutherland's Law"!!
What next, no "Onedin Line" when a certain Khachaturian piece is played?

[jonfan]

People who continually moan about Playlist programmes seem to be their most loyal listeners. Prom concerts get plenty of reaction but evening concerts during the rest of the year, hardly a mention. Might be worth flagging up forthcoming concerts that members feel might be attractive?

[smittims]

It's hardly surprising that regular listeners find more to criticise, simply because they listen more. .

Radio 3 in Concert attracts less criticism probably because it's a straightforward concert with minimal interference by Mr Jackson's henchmen.

[AuntDaisy]

People who continually moan about Playlist programmes seem to be their most loyal listeners. Prom concerts get plenty of reaction but evening concerts during the rest of the year, hardly a mention. Might be worth flagging up forthcoming concerts that members feel might be attractive?

Perhaps you missed the Olivier Latry / Víkingur Ólafsson posts?

[Serial_Apologist]

Just caught a bit of Breakfast with Hamish MacCunn's "The Land of the Mountain and the Flood"...
It was also on Hannah French's Breakfast a few weeks ago - but his time Tom M didn't mention "Sutherland's Law"!!
What next, no "Onedin Line" when a certain Khachaturian piece is played?

They're all too young at the Beeb to recall a certain piece by Holst being used as the theme tune for "Billy Bunter" - can't quite remember which piece at the moment - and wasn't the "Mars" movement from "The Planets" used for "Quatermass"?

Congratulations, by the way, for spelling Khachaturian's name correctly - I always get the ch and the t the wrong way round!

[vinteuil]

Congratulations, by the way, for spelling Khachaturian's name correctly ...

... easy peasy - Арам Ильич Хачатурян

Tho' he would probably (secretly, perhaps) have preferred Արամ Խաչատրյան

[AuntDaisy]

They're all too young at the Beeb to recall a certain piece by Holst being used as the theme tune for "Billy Bunter" - can't quite remember which piece at the moment - and wasn't the "Mars" movement from "The Planets" used for "Quatermass"?

Congratulations, by the way, for spelling Khachaturian's name correctly - I always get the ch and the t the wrong way round!

Could it be RVW for Billy Bunter? You're right about Quatermass - very appropriate, esp. for the "Q and the Pit".

I enjoyed "Sutherland's Law" - wish they'd repeat it on Talking Pictures TV.
BTW John Purser's notes for the MacCunn Hyperion CD (courtesy of our Library) were interesting:

Land of the Mountain and the Flood is a tour de force for any composer—for a teenager it is a staggering achievement. The work was completed on 8 November 1886 when MacCunn was only eighteen. Here was a young man stepping out of the shadow of Mendelssohn’s, Bruch’s and Mackenzie’s Scottish works, assaulting London with a brilliant conviction of what it was to be Scottish and European at the same time—but with this major difference: of the four he was the only one whose childhood and musical upbringing at that point had been largely in Scotland

[AuntDaisy]

... easy peasy - Арам Ильич Хачатурян

Tho' he would probably (secretly, perhaps) have preferred Արամ Խաչատրյան

Clever clogs - well done. ... and, thanks to you, I've now found out out he was Armenian rather than Georgian. (I had the old Stanley Black tapes years ago.)

I found a signature online (a snip at $3000 for the letter).

[Serial_Apologist]

Could it be RVW for Billy Bunter

You're absolutely right, it was Vaughan Williams!



"Cherry, you BEAST! - you stole my cake!"

[french frank]

People who continually moan about Playlist programmes seem to be their most loyal listeners.

I'm thinking of getting the software to replace the word "moan" with 'criticise', but not sure whether to make it a noun ('criticism') or a verb. Maybe 'dislike', with moans becoming 'dislikes'. Not sure, but to me the word 'moans' suggests that the complaints are both tedious and unjustified, when clearly, and without a shadow of doubt, they are both justified and necessary

[kernelbogey]

I'm thinking of getting the software to replace the word "moan" with 'criticise', but not sure whether to make it a noun ('criticism') or a verb. Maybe 'dislike', with moans becoming 'dislikes'. Not sure, but to me the word 'moans' suggests that the complaints are both tedious and unjustified, when clearly, and without a shadow of doubt, they are both justified and necessary

As in Michelle Criticise, maybe?