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"Admit it, you're as bored as I am"

Deano (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/Deano) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:16:39 -0700

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http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/story/0,,2289751,00.html

I read this thought-provoking article in today's Guardian arguing that we suffer new classical music in order to hear the old classics.

"In New York, Philadelphia and Boston, concert-goers have learned to stay awake and applaud politely at compositions by Christopher Rouse and Tan Dun. But they do this only because these works tend to be short and not terribly atonal; because they know this is the last time in their lives they'll have to listen to them; and because the orchestra has signed a contract in blood guaranteeing that if everyone holds their nose and eats their vegetables, they'll be rewarded with a great dollop of Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn."

And being the Guardian there's a rebuttal;

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/07/no_were_not_as_bored_as_you_ar.html

- Deano

Erm, where have all the videos gone?

Deano (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/Deano) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:13:36 -0700

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There are only two pages of videos for Comedy. My Bravo channel has one video and three unsifted.
I have checked in both FF and IE.

It must just be me but I can't see what I could have changed to possibly cause this.

- Deano

Just a clarification on posting to Bravo

Deano (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/Deano) — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:49:33 -0700

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Having done my weekly glance at some videos in Bravo I have removed some posts from the channel that I don't believe are a good fit.

The channel description is;

"A channel dedicated to sifting the best from the opera house, concert hall or theatre.

Sifts can be performances, documentaries, interviews or anything else, mainly relating to opera, classical, dance and musical theatre."

I think it's ok for this to extend to videos that are influenced by these genres (hence the cartoons) and for jazz/blues to be included as they tend to be concert performances that, to me at least, feel like they fit in Bravo.

There's clearly a blurring here and I know I haven't caught everything but I don't think we should have newer genres or more esoteric musical fusions in the channel.

So please no rock or hiphop as these do have their own channels.

thanks!

- Deano

Request: tag cloud for a channel

Deano (http://bravo.videosift.com/member/Deano) — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:18:24 -0700

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Just had an idea - I note that the tag cloud on bravo.videosift seems to be the same as on videosift.com.

Would it not be more useful if it showed the most popular tags from the submitted videos on the Bravo channel or <insert name of your channel here>?</insert>

- Deano