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less-than-optimal remarks ...
Nov. 17th, 2009 08:44 am... recently made by the chattering announcers on our local less-than-optimal classical radio station. (Quotes as accurate as I can remember them.)
Diane Nicolini: This piece always reminds me of the Tudors, for some reason. Of course, it is Elizabethan ...
Yes, Diane, Elizabeth I was one of the Tudors! Don't sound so puzzled about it!
Hoyt Smith: That was one of Mozart's earlier violin concertos. In fact, it was No. 1.
Look, Hoyt, I don't expect every music-lover to know off the top of their heads that Mozart wrote all five of his full-length violin concertos in a single year when he was 19. But you're supposed to be an announcer who knows a little about the music. If you just want to say that was his Violin Concerto No. 1, OK. But if you prate about his "earlier violin concertos" all it shows is that you don't know what you're talking about.
Diane Nicolini: This piece always reminds me of the Tudors, for some reason. Of course, it is Elizabethan ...
Yes, Diane, Elizabeth I was one of the Tudors! Don't sound so puzzled about it!
Hoyt Smith: That was one of Mozart's earlier violin concertos. In fact, it was No. 1.
Look, Hoyt, I don't expect every music-lover to know off the top of their heads that Mozart wrote all five of his full-length violin concertos in a single year when he was 19. But you're supposed to be an announcer who knows a little about the music. If you just want to say that was his Violin Concerto No. 1, OK. But if you prate about his "earlier violin concertos" all it shows is that you don't know what you're talking about.
