Jubilee Pageant Composers Complain

Summary: 

The BBC frustrated the composers who were invited by them to compose special music for the event. They used their music briefly and did not even refer to it.  Other involved musicians were disappointed too. According to a BBC spokeswoman, there was no way of guaranteeing TV attention, because of the nature of the broadcast. She hoped that artists would have felt honoured to be a part of the celebration, irrespective of the actual TV coverage. The Sunday pageant has received 2,425 complaints so far of the overall coverage, with a majority about the Sunday’s Thames pageant. The BBC remarked that there was positive feedback too.

Commentary: 

I enjoyed watching parts of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebration events, including the impressive Thames pageant. We as viewers have high expectancies when it comes to BBC's coverage. Of course one cannot plan every detail in such a huge event, but it really seems such a waste of time and money to invest in specially composed music and not mention it during the coverage. Could they have not included it in the scripts? Any way, I enjoyed it very much because for me it did have that special British BBC-like touch. I dare anyone to match the BBC's record and style in covering major events.

The information was retrieved on June 6^th 2012 from the Guardian website

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/06/jubilee-pageant-composers-bbc-coverage, 

the article ‘Jubilee pageant composers condemn BBC coverage’ by Ben Dowell