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Jun 17, 2016 - 11:57 AM
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Graham Watt
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Yes, excellent. Good to hear a lot of under-discussed stuff on display (the giallo movies etc). Wossy went in a bit aprehensive, knowing that the Maestro does not suffer fools gladly, but old Ennio was utterly charming (what we heard of him - I suppose it was necessary to edit out the longer answers in Italian).
One little question about interviewing techniques... It used to be the norm (I think) to ask the questions directly to the interviewee, even if they didn't understand the language, and the translator would then do the asking. I found Wossy's approach a little odd at first, speaking directly to the translator/ interpreter - "Could you ask him if...?" Is that standard nowadays?
Anyway, greatly enjoyed the show, the music, and the Maestro. Bravo!
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I saw Ross at the Barry concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1998 and also Morricone at the Barbican in (I think) 2001. Definitely a big film music fan.
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Just listened to that interview and found it to be a great listen, Ross clearly knows his stuff, he seems like a genuine fan too, and Morricone far more open and relaxed than normal, while the selection of music [and not all of them film music] was well chosen and edited in to the interview.
Yes, Ross takes a lot of flak for the light nature of his interview techniques, but his great gift is to make people feel entirely at home, and they do loosen up, even through an interpreter it seems.
The BBC top slot interviewer post went from Parkinson to Wogan to Aspel to Ross to Graham Norton, and if you take a sliding scale of 'seriousness', then it declines from Parkinson with each new replacement. Ross however, for all his frivolity, could be, on occasion, especially in dealing with humanitarian or charity stuff quite 'serious' if he chose and the gravitas graph goes up slightly during his tenure. Not so with Apel or Norton.
It's good to see a genuinely clued up interviewer, and it doesn't have to sacrifice fun. Also, Ross is a buff of every kind of cinema, including European, and presented the Beeb's main film show for years.
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