Comments on On An Overgrown Path: BBC Proms 2008 tries some time travel

Wow! Looking at that Proms schedule almost made my...

2008-04-10T03:53:00.000+01:00

Wow! Looking at that Proms schedule almost made my head explode. And I had no idea it lasted that long (more than 8 weeks!).

Anyways, I'm a fan of the Potter books and I read "great literature" (whatever that means). I suppose I don't count because I think I was already interested in literature before that. Almost seems concurrent though.

PS: I'm digging the Xenakis and Messiaen picture.

Sorry PMR, but it doesn't work like that.If you gi...

2008-04-09T22:36:00.000+01:00

Sorry PMR, but it doesn't work like that.

If you give 'em Doctor Who they want more Doctor Who, not Mark-Anthony Turnage.

The Turnage then gets axed because the research department says that is not what the audience wants.

It is known as the 'Harry Potter fallacy'. There is no market evidence of kids reading more great literature because of Harry Potter, they just want more of the same -

http://www.overgrownpath.com/2006/10/rock-idols-and-harry-potter-fallacy.html

Great music doesn't need Doctor Who or maypoles. It just needs the BBC to have the confidence to let it speak for itself.

If you build it he (or she) will come -

http://www.overgrownpath.com/2007/10/if-you-will-build-it-he-will-come.html

Don't knock the Doctor Who Prom. Using the biggest...

2008-04-09T19:28:00.000+01:00

Don't knock the Doctor Who Prom. Using the biggest success on TV for years to lure kids into a concert hall then hitting them with a Turnage UK premiere seems a pretty good (and sneaky!) plan.

And what's wrong with maypoles? Apart from it not being May, of course.