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« on: May 29, 2015, 10:23:06 am » |
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It is - or could be - interesting, Albion, yes. But many of the concerts are listed with details of the performers, but without any information about what was played. The first random example I looked at was the Third Programme for November 9th 1963. An orchestral concert was broadcast in two parts, and later a twenty-five minute string quartet concert. I am almost certain that details of the works they performed would have been printed in the Radio Times of the day. In those days people did not turn on the wireless at random.
"This is a historical record of both the planned output and the BBC services of any given time. It should be viewed in this context and with the understanding that it reflects the attitudes and standards of its time - not those of today."
Timid what? Perhaps this means that in to-day's Britain (as in the nineteenth century) the glamour of the executant is all and the work itself a mere anonymous vehicle supplied by some composer or other whose name hardly matters.
Is this omission really Corporation policy (copyright fears perhaps) or is it the work of some ignorant office-boy who can touch nothing without polluting it?
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