Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | |
Date: | Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:52:17 -0800 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Jane Erb responds to me:
>> ... that part of Rachmaninov's First Symphony used to be
>> used as the theme music to the BBC's current affairs programme
>> Panorama.
>
> I am sure you are aware that the theme music for BBC's Third Programme,
> as BBC3 was known when it first went on the air, was the March from Dag
> Wiren's Serenade for Strings? I've always wondered why they chose not
> to use music by a native composer.
For "lighter" programming they definitely did. I recall when I met
Ernest Tomlinson some years back, he told me that the BBC would regularly
call and ask if he had anything suitable for X type of show. Much British
Light Music is familiar to those of us of a certain age from listening
to the BBC in our childhoods.
Oh, and M. le Pedant points out that BBC3 is a tv channel, what you
meant was BBC Radio 3.
deryk barker
[log in to unmask]
***********************************************
The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R)
list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability
Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information,
go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
|
|
|