tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post359950076041862188..comments2024-03-15T20:32:39.815+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: My own downward spiral of listening enjoyment...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-86374584837263716592012-01-17T15:32:39.739+00:002012-01-17T15:32:39.739+00:00Via Facebook from Antony Pitts: Mr Berry (and anyo...<i>Via Facebook from Antony Pitts:</i> Mr Berry (and anyone else) might like to listen to 'Bach and the Art of Bee-keeping' on BBCRadio3 on Sunday 29 January 7.45-8.35pm - which touches on both quantum mechanics and Schoenberg...<br />http://www.goldenradio.co.uk/sounds/trails/BatAoBkTRAIL.mp3<br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2012/05/bach-art-bee-keeping.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-77653420208015641142012-01-17T13:21:25.943+00:002012-01-17T13:21:25.943+00:00Mark, many thanks for that and I can only echo you...Mark, many thanks for that and I can only echo your experience of "I remember as a schoolboy learning so much from it, whether from the broadcasts, other programmes including the interval talks (whose topic might well have nothing to do with the concert, but be of interest in its own, often quirky, right) and even by perusing the listings in the Radio Times".<br /><br />When will they ever learn? <br /><br />I should also add that Mark writes the widely read and influential Boulezian blog - http://boulezian.blogspot.com/Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-9573951895885443452012-01-17T13:09:59.352+00:002012-01-17T13:09:59.352+00:00This commentator certainly is not in agreement wit...This commentator certainly is not in agreement with the path Radio 3 has taken, which is why, with considerable regret, he listens to the station far less often than was once the case. I remember as a schoolboy learning so much from it, whether from the broadcasts, other programmes including the interval talks (whose topic might well have nothing to do with the concert, but be of interest in its own, often quirky, right) and even by perusing the listings in the Radio Times. Indeed, it was on the suggestion of my music teacher that I persuaded my parents that we should take the Radio Times. The banal 'chat' that passes for conversation, let alone discussion, drives me mad; the insistence upon concerts fitting slots, rather than the other way round, is reprehensible. <br /><br />Yes, as in all things, there is a very good case for some programmes catering to the uninitiated, but by the same token, why should everything be immediately 'accessible' to everyone? If I am to approach a subject about which I know nothing, for instance, quantum mechanics, I should try to begin at the beginning, but should never expect or insist that every programme or every book would do likewise. Part of the impulse to explore further is an encounter with something one does not immediately 'understand'. What goes for mechanices goes for Schoenberg. And even at beginners' level, perhaps especially at that level, there is absolutely no need for the broadcaster to patronise.Mark Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17693194967620507933noreply@blogger.com