tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post111988180983230807..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Uncovered - classical music orgiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1124279049990133282005-08-17T12:44:00.000+01:002005-08-17T12:44:00.000+01:00Playing the alma mater game is fun. I bet I'm the ...Playing the <I>alma mater</I> game is fun. I bet I'm the only one <I>on an overgrown path</I> who graduated from University of Reading, UK. My slightly more illustrious predecessors there included Gustav Holst and Edmund Rubbra. <BR/><BR/>The Great Hall Reading University was also the scene of my one and only operatic appearance - in a fully staged Glinka <I>A Life for the Czar</I>. With London only an hour's train ride away our Op Soc specialised in (then)rarely performed works by great masters to pull the audiences from the big city. We also did Wagner's <I>Rienzi</I> (a justly forgotten masterpiece) and Bizet's <I>Pearl Fishers</I>. Those were the days!Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1124206229067382392005-08-16T16:30:00.000+01:002005-08-16T16:30:00.000+01:00Though you're quite right to direct people's atten...Though you're quite right to direct people's attention to the WHRB "orgies", I'm not sure that they can be of the same standard as the BBC's recent Ludwigathon. Certainly when I lived in the Boston area back in the early 1990s, the WHRB marathons were a welcome change from the other classical-music radio offerings in the area (and Boston was better than almost anywhere else in the US), but they weren't enough to assuage my longing for good old Radio 3. First of all, the orgies weren't all classical music -- sometimes they would be obscure East Coast punk bands or something; second, the continuity announcements consisted of little but a recitation (often mispronounced) of the about-to-be-played work's title and performers -- nothing enlightening like R3's readings from Beethoven's letters, or comments from Peter Cropper on quartet performance; and third ... Oh never mind, this posting has gone on quite long enough. (But I'm enjoying your blog, which I got to via Alex Ross's one)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1124192285812865402005-08-16T12:38:00.000+01:002005-08-16T12:38:00.000+01:00Dave said... On the Classical Junk web stream, I p...<A HREF="http://www.classicaljunk.net/" REL="nofollow">Dave</A> said... <BR/>On the <A HREF="http://www.classicaljunk.net/" REL="nofollow">Classical Junk</A> web stream, I program works of Howard Hanson quite often. I try to play the complete cycle of his symphonies at least twice a year. Hopefully a listener or two will take notice of this grossly underrated composer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1124153345317044412005-08-16T01:49:00.000+01:002005-08-16T01:49:00.000+01:00you may be interested to know that Mr. Davis has l...you may be interested to know that Mr. Davis has landed at the XM Satellite Radio VOX station as the programmer and i think everything else for that channel.. and excellent choices he makes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1124021640259408772005-08-14T13:14:00.000+01:002005-08-14T13:14:00.000+01:00Classical Junk is excellent. Thanks for pointing i...Classical Junk is excellent. Thanks for pointing it out.Clivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281373949611928896noreply@blogger.com