Is this the sign of things to come?

2007-02-22T21:45:00.000Z

And some bright spark has posted this article on t...

2007-02-22T21:31:00.000Z

And some bright spark has posted this article on the re-opened BBC Radio 3 message board - http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F6643900?thread=3914305&latest=1

As I wrote this piece I was listening to BBC Symph...

2007-02-22T21:24:00.000Z

As I wrote this piece I was listening to BBC Symphony Chief Conductor Jirí Belohlávek being 'interviewed' by the BBC's Sean Rafferty on BBC Radio 3's In Tune programme.

The result was a laughable PR puff. Any independent interviewer given access to Belohlávek would ask the tough questions his orchestra are asking:

Why is he spending so little time with them?
Will he ever programme anything other than Czech music?
What is happening about the reported sale of the orchestra's Maida Vale home?

Not so 'pussy cat' Rafferty. Belohlávek may as well have been a visiting guest conductor. There was not a question about the prospects of the BBC Symphony.

All we got was an extended advertisement for a rare Belohlávek appearance with 'his' orchestra, a concert performance of The Excursions of Mr Broucek.

Which as we all know, is a story about a man who lives on the moon ...

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Is this the sign of things to come?

And some bright spark has posted this article on t...

As I wrote this piece I was listening to BBC Symph...