The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[mangerton]

Forget about college and university degrees: knowledge comes with pursuing an enthusiasm enthusiastically - for the longer the better. And being at least 55 .

All in my opinion, I should add.

Oh no. Still wet behind the ears at that age. You need at least another seven years.

(All IMHO, of course!)

[teamsaint]

Oh no. Still wet behind the ears at that age. You need at least another seven years.

(All IMHO, of course!)

phew, 11 years to get sorted , until i have to stop asking daft questions.

[Richard Tarleton]

Oh no. Still wet behind the ears at that age. You need at least another seven years.

(All IMHO, of course!)

I was going to say 9 or 10

My guess is that it's like a French degree where graduates have studied the handful of literary texts on the syllabus, and that's the extent of their knowledge of French literature.

Exactly the difference between lab-trained zoology graduates, and field naturalists

[teamsaint]

I was going to say 9 or 10



Exactly the difference between lab-trained zoology graduates, and field naturalists

Oh, I thought the difference was that you have to keep your Lab coat on.

I'll get mine...........

[Richard Tarleton]

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Oh, I thought the difference was that you have to keep your Lab coat on.

I'll get mine...........

No - it's a case of, they wouldn't know a dormouse if it bit them in the leg

[mercia]

I'm not sure we can expect SMP to "pursue an enthusiasm" for Magnard, along with hundreds of other composers - it doesn't sound practical

[Suffolkcoastal]

I'm pretty glad I don't have a music degree, being without ones allows you to explore as wide a range as possible and in your own time. I knew Magnard's 4th when I was in my 20's. since it is one of the more impressive French symphonies, and the I have the impression that the Dear Leader is a pit of Francophile as far as music is concerned, I'm surprised how little we hear of this composer under the present regime.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

the Dear Leader is a pit

How very singular of you, Suffy

(Having a Music degree doesn't stop anyone from exploring a wide range of Musics, by the way. )

[Roehre]

(Having a Music degree doesn't stop anyone from exploring a wide range of Musics, by the way. )

Not having one doesn't either

[Suffolkcoastal]

Another freudian slip, must be something about Breakfast on 3 and pits

[french frank]

I'm not sure we can expect SMP to "pursue an enthusiasm" for Magnard, along with hundreds of other composers - it doesn't sound practical

Pursuing an enthusiasm for a wide range of repertoire should ensure that one discovers Magnard - at least to the point of having heard of him. And there are very picturesque anecdotes to purvey to listeners about Magnard, a very gallant gentleman - just as good as Bach galloping from Ghent to Aix with the good news.

Ferney, I agree, you can't turn the proposition on its head and still expect it to be true ...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Not having one doesn't either

[Roehre]

I'm pretty glad I don't have a music degree, being without ones allows you to explore as wide a range as possible and in your own time. ......

Makes two of us

[Domeyhead]

I'll confess to not having heard of Magnard either, and was pleased and surprised to become acquainted with him, albeit via the awful phone in slot.

[Don Petter]

My very first CD purchase in the '80s was the Accord 5CD set of the Magnard chamber works - or at least, it should have been. When I got it home the box proved to have none of the discs inside! (Was it a dummy for a shop window display, I wonder.)

The independent shop (remember those?) rapidly got me a replacement set, which still gives much pleasure.