Comments on On An Overgrown Path: BBC wants Vaughan Williams premiere

Geez, and I thought it was just on this side of th...

2007-12-10T16:48:00.000Z

Geez, and I thought it was just on this side of the pond. It's a veritable 28 Days Later of music! Somedays I think it's just all over.

Pete, excellent point which I hadn't noticed. Here...

2007-12-09T21:13:00.000Z

Pete, excellent point which I hadn't noticed. Here is the relevant section from the Observer article:

'He approached the BBC last year with the idea of making a documentary about Vaughan Williams, whose best known symphonies include The Lark Ascending and Fantasia on Greensleeves, in time for the 50th anniversary of the composer's death.

And as I've pointed out elsewhere, the Observer also managed to get the day of Stockhausen's death wrong.

That letter's clearly witless tosh of the worst ki...

2007-12-09T21:02:00.000Z

That letter's clearly witless tosh of the worst kind, but I can't help thinking that the Observer's attack on the BBC's "ignorance" might carry more weight if it had been written by someone who knows what a symphony is.

I was talking about the BBC Radio 3 website, not t...

2007-12-09T20:08:00.000Z

I was talking about the BBC Radio 3 website, not the news pages. If the music blogs can comment on Stockhausen's passing within hours, why can't the BBC's serious music channel?

I would have been very surprised if BBC News hadn't covered the story. Although anything is possible these days.

Sadly, I don't have any time for the 'It's still light-years ahead of anything I've heard on this side of the Atlantic' school of thinking.

The decline in quality of the BBC in general, and Radio 3 in particular is a scandal. Irrespective of what goes on elsewhwere.

They covered Stockhausen's death on the front page...

2007-12-09T19:55:00.000Z

They covered Stockhausen's death on the front page of the international edition of the news website. Here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7133571.stm

If people are really upset about the quality of the BBC today, I wonder what is was like in the past. It's still light-years ahead of anything I've heard on this side of the Atlantic. It must have been great.

The BBC Radio 3 website has not carried one mentio...

2007-12-09T19:31:00.000Z

The BBC Radio 3 website has not carried one mention of the death of Karlheinz Stockhausen over the weekend.

Typical of the way the Corporation has lost touch both with its listeners and reality.