tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post1444538327755873393..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: BBC Proms and the art of music promotionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-14885828725005150952008-07-18T16:35:00.000+01:002008-07-18T16:35:00.000+01:00My pleasure Murai, I am glad you found Calefax rew...My pleasure Murai, I am glad you found Calefax rewarding.<BR/><BR/>And it does prove that you don't need silly stunts to promote classical music.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-69705579590883207592008-07-18T16:30:00.000+01:002008-07-18T16:30:00.000+01:00Dear Pliable, Thank you for the Calefax link. The...Dear Pliable,<BR/><BR/> Thank you for the Calefax link. The music is wonderful and I have a new group to add to my list of favorites.Muraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17696515619367729913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-57837472573334595262008-07-18T14:09:00.000+01:002008-07-18T14:09:00.000+01:00Garth, interestingly one of the choirs for Gergiev...Garth, interestingly one of the choirs for Gergiev's Mahler 8 in St Paul's last week was The Choral Arts Society of Washington.<BR/><BR/>http://www.overgrownpath.com/2008/07/mahler-8-symphony-of-thousand-mistakes.html<BR/><BR/>http://www.choralarts.org/Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-4385960376089397022008-07-18T13:45:00.000+01:002008-07-18T13:45:00.000+01:00Sharon Percy Rockefeller and her team of commerci...Sharon Percy Rockefeller and her team of commercial classical music programmers also promised to take a 'fresh look' at classical music programming at her Classical WETA-FM station, public radio in the Nation's Capital and Greater Washington Region over here on the other side of the pond. The result, here too, has been a severe dumbing down of classical music programming and broadcast standards as much even conservative modern music is abandoned and American classical music is virtually completely ignored since it didn't figure in the computer-driven listener testing polls brought over to the elite public broadcasting station by the commercial interlopers.<BR/><BR/>Sorry, Pliable, that there is no good classical music programming and broadcasting news to report currently from this culturally isolated musical spot over the pond. [Washington feels now a bit like the 'island' that West Berlin might have felt like in the middle 1960s -- minus the cultural leadership and subsidies, of course.]Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-84375662784116733242008-07-18T11:47:00.000+01:002008-07-18T11:47:00.000+01:00Jessica, many sins are being committed in the name...Jessica, many sins are being committed in the name of taking <I>'a fresh and irreverent look'</I> look at classical music.<BR/><BR/>What is this nonsense meant to achieve?<BR/><BR/>Just look at the facts about BBC Radio 3 where Roger Wright and his predecessor Nicholas Kenyon have given the network the same <I>'fresh look'</I> that they have given to the Proms.<BR/><BR/>Independent audience research (see link below) shows that the <I>'fresh look'</I> at Radio 3 has delivered a double-whammy. New listeners aren't being attracted while loyal listeners are switching off. In the process a cultural asset has been devalued to a national joke.<BR/><BR/>Are we going to sit back and let the same thing happen to the Proms?<BR/><BR/>http://www.overgrownpath.com/2008/05/bbc-radio-3-how-do-you-spell.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-58779717655894454712008-07-18T10:32:00.000+01:002008-07-18T10:32:00.000+01:00Dearest Pliable, my commission was for a 'Bluffer'...Dearest Pliable, my commission was for a 'Bluffer's Guide to the Proms', to take a fresh and irreverent look at the goings-on. I guess you did find it suitably irreverent. The comment about Britten has nothing whatsoever to do with the reason they have not programmed any this year; it is a passing remark in a different context. I don't actually know why there's no Britten, but then there's no Korngold either, so I guess we can't have it all!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07626668968660845845noreply@blogger.com