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Lyric fm's Breakfast show presenter - Marty Whelan.
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I know most of the faculty in DIT conservatory of music, who in particular are you talking about? I have to say when I attended the Society for Musicology in Ireland's conference that was in DIT a while ago, I didn't hear much mention of Marty Whelan amongst the Stockhausen's, the Gerald Barry's and the importance of Faust in the works of Wagner, but maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention.
Stockhausen? Are you serious? On LyricFM when people are trying to get out to work or get the kids to school?
Stockhausen is for the bores who like that kind of thing but it's more like math than music.
Musicology sounds to me like Codology! Give me Music, Music, Music, as the man said! What we want is what Marty, George and Lorcan give us: soothing music.
I have heard some of Gerald Barry's work. Very academic and unpleasant. Again totally unsuited to a classical/crossover early morning slot.
(Gounod wrote Faust, by the way. So much for being in the pockets of part-timers in the DIT Conservatory! :rolleyes: )0 -
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I'm sure he did.He played Duran Duran on Friday morning. If that's what I wanted to listen to I'd listen to 4FM.
If so it was probably to lighten the mood and to draw in a younger cohort of listeners. And who can argue with that? Trish played the Beatles today, but nobody holds that against her. We can't have John O'Conor all the way. 0 -
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Stockhausen? Are you serious? On LyricFM when people are trying to get out to work or get the kids to school?
Stockhausen is for the bores who like that kind of thing but it's more like math than music.
Musicology sounds to me like Codology! Give me Music, Music, Music, as the man said! What we want is what Marty, George and Lorcan give us: soothing music.
I have heard some of Gerald Barry's work. Very academic and unpleasant. Again totally unsuited to a classical/crossover early morning slot.
(Gounod wrote Faust, by the way. So much for being in the pockets of part-timers in the DIT Conservatory! :rolleyes: )
Faust is a play, written by the German Van Goethe. I think you are confusing Gounod's opera Faust with the piece of literature "Faust". It was also inspiration for a number of works by prominent composers including Wagner, who used it for inspiration for his "Faust Overture". Hence the reason I mentioned the importance of "Faust" as a source of inspiration for Wagner.
And if Stockhausen is for bores, I'm glad to be a bore.0 -
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Faust is a play, written by the German Van Goethe. I think you are confusing Gounod's opera Faust with the piece of literature "Faust". It was also inspiration for a number of works by prominent composers including Wagner, who used it for inspiration for his "Faust Overture". Hence the reason I mentioned the importance of "Faust" as a source of inspiration for Wagner.
And if Stockhausen is for bores, I'm glad to be a bore.
Thanks for this admission.
I looked Goethe up and if you were to call him something like that, he's actually von Goethe, not Van Goethe.
But, sure, at this stage I suppose Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wouldn't care what you'd call him, as long as you didn't call him early in the morning. 0 -
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I'd rate that higher than the theme from Wonder Woman and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from Mary Poppins, both of which he has played in recent months.twinklerunner wrote: »Marty finished his show this morning with 'My Lovely Horse', from Father Ted. A new low?
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Frank Grimes wrote: »Yeah I've heard the Black Beauty theme on his show before, must have been during another racing festival. I'm tempted to email in request asking him to play the old song 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' by Racing Cars if he's doing a horse racing 'theme' this week - the title probably isn't something his comic genius could be applied to though so he mightn't play it.
I didn't hear the song from Father Ted but I looked up the music he played today on the World Wide Web (25 years young today, as Marty told us ), and it seem as if the Show ended with the orchestral music from Black Beauty. Which is a suitable link during Cheltenham Week. (Niall has been partaking in the fun too, I notice.)
We had "Let's Go Fly A Kite" from "Mary Poppins" too, rather than Supercalifrag.
But any fair person - and I stress that - any fair person who looked at the running order would agree that he plays his fair share of classical music. I might stick it into Excel actually to see what proportion of it is classical actually. And some of it is heavy stuff too like the Kabalevsky, Grieg, Satie, Respeghi, Glazunov, as well as more palatable music like Puccini, Strauss, Gershwin and Cavatina.
But do not take my word for it: look here:
http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/marty-in-the-morning/0 -
I didn't hear the song from Father Ted but I looked up the music he played today on the World Wide Web (25 years young today, as Marty told us ), and it seem as if the Show ended with the orchestral music from Black Beauty. Which is a suitable link during Cheltenham Week. (Niall has been partaking in the fun too, I notice.)
We had "Let's Go Fly A Kite" from "Mary Poppins" too, rather than Supercalifrag.
But any fair person - and I stress that - any fair person who looked at the running order would agree that he plays his fair share of classical music. I might stick it into Excel actually to see what proportion of it is classical actually. And some of it is heavy stuff too like the Kabalevsky, Grieg, Satie, Respeghi, Glazunov, as well as more palatable music like Puccini, Strauss, Gershwin and Cavatina.
But do not take my word for it: look here:
http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/marty-in-the-morning/
Well you can take my word for it too, he definitely played My Lovely Horse!
I wonder who picks the music for this show; perhaps he picks the 'poppy' tunes and he gets advice on the classical music to play?? I'm just guessing of course.0 -
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Isn't hair styling a touchy subject with Marty?Oh, I wasn't doubting you. I can't listen to all the programme. I think it's a dip in and dip out kind of show, like reading a magazine at the stylist. Most people just want to listen to music rather than the Tubridy-lite stuff that's better on other RTE channels.
Regards...jmcc0 -
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Excellent one by Marty as he was finishing off today.
Sit on a chair and lift your right leg up a bit. Move your right leg in a Clockwise circle. Now while you're doing this draw the Number 6 in the air with your right hand.
Your foot will start going Anticlockwise!
Marty was told this by a psychiatrist and it's something about how our brains are wired. Best thing I've heard on radio all month! 0 -
Excellent one by Marty as he was finishing off today.
Sit on a chair and lift your right leg up a bit. Move your right leg in a Clockwise circle. Now while you're doing this draw the Number 6 in the air with your right hand.
Your foot will start going Anticlockwise!
Marty was told this by a psychiatrist and it's something about how our brains are wired. Best thing I've heard on radio all month!
Thanks, that's the best description of the "dumbing down" I've heard yet.0 -
Excellent one by Marty as he was finishing off today.
Sit on a chair and lift your right leg up a bit. Move your right leg in a Clockwise circle. Now while you're doing this draw the Number 6 in the air with your right hand.
Your foot will start going Anticlockwise!
Marty was told this by a psychiatrist and it's something about how our brains are wired. Best thing I've heard on radio all month!
The foot soldiers will love that one. Mind bending stuff!0 -
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twinklerunner wrote: »I remember when Marty started out on Radio 2 (as 2FM was known then) in 1979, he was a big fan of soft U.S. rock music. On both 'Whelan Home' and 'Marty 'til Midnight' he continuously played music by artists such as Christopher Cross, Nils Lofgren, etc.
The breakfast show on Lyric could be presented by Ronan Collins or indeed any other presenter as it appears that no knowledge of classical music is required.
Yeah, that's really lovely music. It's sort of following on from the Rat Pack and from lounge jazz and all that. I can't think of anything I'd like better in the morning than the light classical and those genres of music that draw on the light classical tradition. Funny that we are now getting towards golden oldies ages ourselves. Marty Whelan's Golden Hour! 0 -
Yeah, that's really lovely music. It's sort of following on from the Rat Pack and from lounge jazz and all that. I can't think of anything I'd like better in the morning than the light classical and those genres of music that draw on the light classical tradition. Funny that we are now getting towards golden oldies ages ourselves. Marty Whelan's Golden Hour!
Speak for yourself.
Some of us want classical music in the morning with the occasional traffic report and news report, and a minimal amount of chatter.
We used to get it too.0 -
Yeah, that's really lovely music. It's sort of following on from the Rat Pack and from lounge jazz and all that. I can't think of anything I'd like better in the morning than the light classical and those genres of music that draw on the light classical tradition. Funny that we are now getting towards golden oldies ages ourselves. Marty Whelan's Golden Hour!
The point is that Lyric is supposed to be a classical station. Some will say that's not the case, if that is so why do Lyric FM spokespeople compare their listening figures to BBC Radio 3 in the UK?
People like Yvonne are like squatters in London in the 80's. House's that were in use were taken over and the Squatters would refuse to move, putting in their own furnishings and such like. They also tended to have facial hair, much like Marty.
The station was in much better shape before Marty came along. It had a proper focus. Listening figures are at the same very low level as they ever have been, in fact they may be lower, it's no good pointing out that Marty is up thousands of listeners or indeed that he's down thousands. When listenership is so low you can't accurately measure it. (unless you asked everyone in the country)
It was supposed to be a BBC Radio 3 type station with elements of Classical FM and some speech programmes that would be focused on the world of the Arts.
Never in a million years did anyone think that acts like, The Mamas & The Papas or Peter Gabriel would have a place on the station.0 -
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twinklerunner wrote: »Please, no more traffic reports. I'm a daily commuter from Kildare to Dublin (sometimes by train, mostly by car) and I can't remember the last time that I heard a traffic report that made me change my journey. It's basically the same old stuff every day. Traffic moving slowly from Con Colbert to Heuston station isn't newsworthy, even though it's reported every morning.
+1!!
Along with the M/N1 at Whitehall, north quays from Parkgate St. to Ormond Quay, and the canal heading east from Harold's X to Leeson St.
What a waste of airtime!
And back on topic - stupid traffic reports notwithstanding - yes, please, PLEASE, just a bit of classical, the blessed reports if you must, and NO INANE CHATTER.
It's early in the morning, I usually haven't had any coffee, and that's all I want or am able for.
Please?
(Is there anyone BUT Yvonne on here who disagrees? Why is a minority of one winning) 0 -
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