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"Despite the demand, these seasons cannot come too often."

I think this might be considered a matter of opinion!

This comment has been referred for further consideration. Explain.

Mr Wright,

I expected you of course to praise your Mozart season, but it would at least have been politic to mention that one of the reasons these seasons can't happen too often is that they attract criticism as well as praise, since they undermine the wonderful *range* of music and culture that makes R3 so special.

I did have to laugh at the "formulaic programming" comment though. What could be more formulaic than "every note he composed, whether it's any good or not, whether anyone's listening or not [since nobody can listen 24 hours a day for twelve days]"?

Still, the first 'Music Planet' has gone a long way to calming me down - this is exactly what R3 should be about.

I think it would be fair to say that the comments on the Mozart blogs on this site were split roughly 50:50 for and against. I realise it is often said in this situation that the Ö÷²¥´óÐã must be getting it about right.

Whilst I appreciate that many listeners may wish to immerse themselves in one composer's music for an extended period of time, I really do think twelve consecutive days is a bit much!

Many comments have suggested that there could be a theme of programmes on a particular composer spread over a longer period. In my view this would be preferable, as regular programming of Jazz and World music and other "classical" composer's music could then continue to be broadcast, rather than being completely ceased as happened during the Genius of Mozart.

The Radio 3 Forum poll ended with 63.6% broadly against the Mozartfest and 36.4% broadly in favour .

The Guardian poll, prior to the event, was closer (i.e. rather more favourable) at 50-50 .

I made the blog comments here (4 different articles) somewhere between the two: 59% against, 41% in favour.

I see from the censorship of my message 2 that criticism of Mr Wright's decisions is not appreciated.

So therefore, congratulations Mr Wright on your wonderful decision to cancel 2 complete weeks of jazz programmes so that we could all get a chance to hear that little known and rarely broadcast composer Mozart. Please continue to disregard complaints from your jazz listeners as we do not matter and should know better than to want to hear this music on your radio station.

Roger.

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is well easy with addthis.com

get yer nerds on to it

btw, ta very much for making radio 3 FANTASTIC

I did not listen to all of the mozart stuff, but the little I did hear was nice and it inspired me to pick up a book about mozart from the library.

Not sure what Tony wrote the first time (obviously) - but totally agree re: displacement of Jazz programming. Two whole weeks with no Jazz, given that most of the R3 output is on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

Grrrr!

"Hello. I like Jazz. I don't like Mozart. I have compiled some statistics to prove I am right ..." - most of these posts seem small-minded and selfish.

Radio 3 is not there to cater to your personal whims, but to cater to a broad variety of people whose needs are not otherwise catered for. That means there will be times when what's on the radio is not what you enjoy.

You are ignoring the fact that thousands of people were overjoyed by the Mozart extravaganza and were deeply moved by it. Some of those people might be bored and annoyed by having weekends on radio 3 interrupted by jazz programs but where's the value in complaining about it?

As an audience of minority interests (whether of serious music, contemporary music, arts, drama or jazz), we will get nowhere if we only defend our own little patch of radio 3 to the denigration of others.

Take your lead from the controller, who, despite not being the world's biggest Mozart fan, put radio3's listeners, radio3's remit and radio3's pioneering spirit before his own personal tastes.

My guess for next complete composer extravaganza:
Purcell or Stravinsky.

Stop press: have we already had Stravinsky?

Bambos Neophytou is missing the point entirely. There is very little jazz broadcast by the Ö÷²¥´óÐã, almost entirely on R3. Weekends are not "interrupted" by jazz, this is part of the station's core remit.

There is a large amount of classical music broadcast (which I also appreciate by the way). But when even the tiny minority of airtime given over to jazz is cancelled for even more classical music, who is being "selfish"? This is not against Mozart but the whole idea that R3 should be given over to one thing for so long, to the exclusion of all other minority interests.

I agree completely with BN's sentence "Radio 3 is not there to cater to your personal whims, but to cater to a broad variety of people whose needs are not otherwise catered for.". This was my complaint in the first place, as addressed to Mr Wright!

Dear Bambos,

Yes, you're right. We are strongest by standing together.

Which is why it's senseless to alienate half your "coalition" of minority interests by having a ceaseless twelve-day festival which pushes out everything else to the point of despairing tedium.

If someone can honestly say that they'd stayed awake and listened for all the 280-something hours and got the *whole* "experience", perhaps it would have been worth it. Since that's medically impossible outside of psychiatric facilities, I can only conclude that you all enjoyed *parts* of the experience, and it wouldn't have been at all detrimental to your enjoyment to have it interrupted for the sake of the "small-minded".

Spot on guys. Bambos is way off target. I too like Mozart (but not for 12 consecutive days to the exclusion of all else!) interspersed with early music, jazz, world, whatever.

It is the mix of music that can be encountered on Radio 3 (and the lack of adverts) that is the joy of this station.

I wasn't keen on the idea of R3 devoting 12 whole days non-stop to a single composer, even Mozart, but I thought I'd give it a chance. In the event the almost total lack of schedule information made very difficult to decide what programmes to listen to. Unfortunately, the few I tried at random proved not to be to my taste at all - single movements followed almost without a pause by irritating trailers, emails from lonely listeners, etc. I'm afraid I though they were very poor indeed.

Still, I'm, pleased that everyone else enjoyed it so much.