Pulcinella Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 Tonight's Front Row on BBC2 at 7.30 tonight features Darcey Bussell on Sir Kenneth MacMillan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 Thank you Pulcinella. Spotted your post just in time to set the recorder. Off to watch it now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 Basically Bussell interviewing MacLeary and Mukhamedov, with some archive footage of rehearsals for Prince of the Pagodas and the Farewell pdd, plus current rehearsals/performance of The Judas Tree and Elite Syncopations, I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 Yep, light but still pleasant to watch! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridiem Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Thanks all - sounds good! I tried to record it but for some reason it didn't work... So will watch it on iplayer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 This all too brief piece didn't do any kind of justice to MacMillan or to Donald MacLeary or Irek Mukhamedov. I'm afraid to say that it was yet more "look at me" from Darcey Bussell. Probably not her fault but this is supposed to be a major BBC arts programme. As it was, the very brief footage of Kenneth at work, the choreographic snippets, and the interviews were so brief as to be meaningless (surely?) to viewers unfamiliar with ballet or the signficance of MacMillan. Sorry - this this sort of thing makes me quite angry. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Yes, but as the televisual form of a half-hour radio programme which (I think) usually fits 3-4 items into its format, I don't think we were ever going to get anything more than "all too brief" An hour's programme would have been warranted, but whether we shall ever get that I don't know. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) On 10/22/2017 at 11:54, capybara said: this is supposed to be a major BBC arts programme. Front Row is an Arts Programme Lite covering as Alison says 3-4 items in 30 mins - all at the same level as the one on MacMillan. I fear it would be unrealistic to expect anything more substantial. On a related note one of the Celebration days was originally tagged on the ROH web site as "filming" - leading me to hope that it was being filmed for eventual broadcast, that hopefully Jan Younghusband had commissioned it for the BBC. However the tag seems to have been removed (?) so I guess that opportunity to film at least part of the event is no longer on the cards. Edited October 23, 2017 by David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninamargaret Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Wouldn't it be good to have a substantial programme about Macmillan while there are still so many people around who worked closely with him? The little snippets with McLeary and Mukhamedov were nowhere near long enough. The programme itself is a joke if it's intended to be a serious arts programme and the few minutes devoted to.Macmillan, or any arts feature is just laughable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Well, as I said, that's the format the powers that be have chosen. It's not Imagine, or the South Bank Show. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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