Posts by Jolisa
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Several members of AF are classically trained but I wouldn't expect to ever hear them on Concert FM.
Ah, but I would. And once upon a time, I think you would have heard them, or something like them, on Concert FM.
But more importantly, wouldn't one expect those classically trained members of Arcade Fire, or something like AF, to have listened to Concert FM? (I mean, apart from the fact that they personally didn't grow up in NZ). It's not just about what's played, but who's listening.
For example, not the best-selling NZ film ever, but we wouldn't have Harry Sinclair's The Price of Milk without Concert FM:
"I was out looking for places to set a sequel to Topless, and there was this amazing piece of music on the car radio," says Sinclair. "It was incredibly romantic and magical and the extraordinary combination of that landscape and that music really sparked something in me."
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5. Your mum.
You mean "yo mama"?
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I attempted to empirically determine this just now, but the kitten in our courtyard would not hold still for my measuring tape.
Initiative points for taking it into the field, but if you want full marks you're just gonna have to measure that sucker. By any means necessary.
National Standards and/or the kitten gets it.
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I think that in a small, poor country like ours
Um.
the government should direct it's money and energy
You mean its, which is to say, our.
into areas like education, welfare and healthcare
Because those sectors never, in any case, ever overlap with music or art, ever.
not paying ballet dancers to stage productions nobody watches or composers to write symphonies nobody listens to.
Golly, sounds like you have some specific cases in mind? Because "nobody" is a pretty definitive number.
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Brilliant ad! Ta for that, DeepRed. I just can't even fathom the thinking that goes into taking funding away from classes that are at once the last resort and the crucial first step for so many people.
Icehawk, the reading homework is great! We do get the same thing - an injunction to read for 25 minutes per night. The trouble is getting him to stop at 25 mins (the library card gets quite a workout!).
The school system over here hasn't changed much since you saw it, except that now there don't seem to be any textbooks as such, just downloaded or photocopied pages, sent home one at a time.
Today's maths gem:
Q: Which object would be about 12 inches long?
a) a road
b) a jet plane
c) a kitten
d) a baseball batAfter some discussion about whether the jet plane was real or a toy, and whether there was such a thing as toddler-sized baseball bats, Mr 8 grudgingly ticked (c) and added a written note: "Have you ever seen a kitten? A lion cub or something like that, maybe, but a kitten?"
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(NB Save Radio NZ fans =/ clowns, just to be clear).
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Oh, that Sondheim. I had "Send in the Clowns" running through my head. Isn't it rich?
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I, personally, would like a taxpayer-funded commercial-free radio station dedicated entirely to the practically endless and radically egalitarian awesomeness that is soul music. I don't think this is going to happen, though...
Well I’m one who happens to think the pinnacle of high culture on the radio is test cricket. Important too. ...but I never thought of it as some birthright.
Guys! Dream bigger!! If you expect nothing, you get nothing. Think Big Radio! If the government can build a dam to employ underemployed workers, they can damn well build Radio Cricket, and Teh Awesome Soul FM, and UkeLive to employ all those vast hordes of broadcasting degree graduates and documentary film-makers who will otherwise be swelling the ranks of the unemployed. We wouldn't even need to rack up a huge o'seas debt, just run it on a shoestring and some #8 wire. Channel the arts dole sideways, zero sum game, might even make a bit of dosh selling the T-shirts. Creative! Flexible!
Whoah. Gotta put down that tin of polyurethane. Smells good, but.
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Danyl, if you're just playing with us, I might take my ball and go home now, or at least over to the secret socialist-music-geek clubhouse, where we'll eat cake with ice-cream while singing Tainted Love, and I'll finally learn how to spell anarcho-syndicalism and Khachaturian.
Even if the philosopho-political arguments aren't working for you, care to volley any of Russell's pragmatic interjections (tis his thread after all) back over the net? Because they're pretty sensible.
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Though I have to say it would seem more "radically egalitarian" if the "great culture" made available to everyone actually reflected.. everyone
Hence the interpolated "-- with classical music as just one part of it --" and the discussions several pages ago about expanding rather than contracting public radio in NZ.
Cos we need to grow the pie, not blow it up. The free pie. A la mode.