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Martin
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« on: 17:49:41, 03-03-2007 »
If you're not a big fan of Jazz, Opera or New Music, there's not much for you on a Saturday night on R3.

Does that matter? Or do those genres deserve to occupy that space, given that they don't get loads of airtime the rest of the week. Where do we find the balance in all of this?
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« Reply #1 on: 22:25:16, 03-03-2007 »
Martin

Jazz, opera and new music certainly deserve the space. Any problem goes back to the rigidity and infexibility of the schedules, which change every three or four years with a big cataclysm and much wailing and gnashing of teeth and then remain set in stone for ages. I'm sure new music fans would like an occasional Saturday evening at the pub rather than staying in for their only reliable weekly fix. And must the Saturday performance always be opera ( Proms season excepted ) ? Whatever, it ain't gonna change again until 2010.
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« Reply #2 on: 10:12:59, 31-03-2007 »
The Operatic bit must be down to the ebu(?) contract with the Met, which can't have come cheap. Perhaps they
also think in terms of a high culture equivalent of those venerable TV variety shows of the 70s.
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