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Just heard on In Tune that Nicholas Kenyon is taking over at the Barbican in October, so this will be his last year at the Proms. Interesting ? Or just gossip ?
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« Reply #1 on: 18:31:44, 22-02-2007 » |
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Possibly good for the Proms, definitely bad for the Barbican.
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« Reply #2 on: 18:36:31, 22-02-2007 » |
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Good Bloody ridence, he was hopeless and ruined the festival since he took over
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« Reply #3 on: 18:45:31, 22-02-2007 » |
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As some of them are discussing 'over there', the knock effects could be significant. If RW takes over the Proms (as has been customary on the last few occasions), who will take over from him...?
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« Reply #4 on: 18:49:50, 22-02-2007 » |
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« Reply #5 on: 18:52:02, 22-02-2007 » |
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'knock on' effetc. Sorry. Rob,  |
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« Reply #6 on: 18:53:58, 22-02-2007 » |
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Good Bloody ridence, he was hopeless and ruined the festival since he took over
Don't speak too soon... if NK is replaced with Roger Wright running the Proms, you'll have the scene of a man who has never even run so much as an Organ Recital in aid of the Church Roof Fund suddenly running Britain's most prestigious Music Festival. For a start, he will end the Proms being live - instead they will be "live recorded", and anyone who comes to the Albert Hall can stand and listen to a recording of a concert recorded several months earlier at a secret location. Either that, or he'll replace the entire festival with the "Tchaikovsky Experience" - all of Tchaikovsky's works broadcast to the RAH audience from poorly-chosen cds. |
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« Reply #7 on: 18:59:36, 22-02-2007 » |
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With Charles Hazlewood as new controller of R3 ? Sorry, facetious answer and not wanting to open a string of tedious anti - Hazlewood jokes...so I'll ask if there are any candidates we would like to see as R3 controller. I don't know enough about the arts hierarchies here to comment.
Does it have to be somebody British ?
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« Reply #8 on: 20:08:42, 22-02-2007 » |
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Rob Cowan or Andrew McGregor for Controller? Just an idle thought.
Anyway, it surely has to be someone with the experience of planning, delivering, fielding REAL prgrammes, and is not some apparatchik hoiked in to toe lines and tug the forelelock.
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« Reply #9 on: 21:33:27, 22-02-2007 » |
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Good to hear he's leaving the BBC. I've been waiting for this since 1992. Having said that, looking over some copies of the Radio Times during his incumbency has revealed to me how bad it's got since he was replaced as CR3. Only one more to go now .....
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« Reply #10 on: 21:50:18, 22-02-2007 » |
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I'm sure I read something on the web about six months ago (may have been more - annoyingly, despite some extensive googling, I cannot locate it this evening) suggesting that Donald Runnicles had been approached to take over the Proms - of course, have a conductor in charge would not be without precedent and, in my view, they could do a lot worse.
I'm no huge fan of Kenyon, and even if I was I think one would have to view this as a good thing - 12 years is a long time to run an institution like this and fresh blood can be a very good thing (one of the reasons I was glad that McMaster decided to call it a day in Edinburgh - though I think the choice of replacement was odd). Actually, on that score - does David Sheffield just interview horrendously badly?
regards, Tam
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« Reply #11 on: 22:57:47, 22-02-2007 » |
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Tam
I vaguely recall Donald Runnicles being mentioned in connection with the BBC SO when there was the last vacancy but not in the context of Proms controller. A slightly left field appointment might be what is needed though, maybe a European ?
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« Reply #12 on: 23:11:07, 22-02-2007 » |
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You may well be right - however, the article I read specifically mentioned the Proms, as opposed to the directorship of an orchestra (which is why it stuck in my head, as the BBCSO would have been a more plausible story).
regards, Tam
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« Reply #13 on: 21:58:05, 23-02-2007 » |
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I think, Tam, that the idea of Runnicles taking over the Proms is either a misunderstanding or an ignorant journalist being very silly. Why would a distinguished conductor give up his career for a fulltime job as an administrator? No, it seems likely that Roger Wright will be the favourite - and a good job he would do too, IMHO. After all he used to programme the BBC SO, then the Cleveland Orchestra, then in a senior position at DG. When Kenyon moves to the Barbican, on the other hand, it wouldn't be surprising if Graham Sheffield will be looking for a new job, and the Proms is bound to be in his sights too.
Dangerous times for Radio 3 if RW moves, though. Last time around, they nearly appointed Roger Lewis!
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« Reply #14 on: 22:25:33, 23-02-2007 » |
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I don't understand much about controllers. Are they more powerful than presenters? I think I got that. What about Nicholas Kenyon? Do people like him go or stay? Was he good for Proms? Hm, puzzled.   |
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