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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Originally posted by LMcD View PostSK and GM aren't in the same league! One talks at us and one to us.
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Originally posted by subcontrabass View PostIs that connected to SK having a first-class degree in music from the University of Oxford, whereas GM has a degree in English literature from the other place?
Hopefully the new normal will consign our Oxbridge obsession to the dustbin of history, but I’m not optimistic.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostHopefully the new normal will consign our Oxbridge obsession to the dustbin of history, but I’m not optimistic.I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!
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Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View PostOxford and Cambridge are top universities. While I would agree that this in no way entitles their graduates to think they're better than everyone else, neither does it mean they should be consigned to any dustbin. I would agree however that selection for HMG and, for example, the civil service should be on merit alone (simple to do that of course).
I am aware that they are top universities.....for some things......
( Ok , for many things).I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Count Boso
Originally posted by subcontrabass View PostIs that connected to SK having a first-class degree in music from the University of Oxford, whereas GM has a degree in English literature from the other place?
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Originally posted by subcontrabass View PostIs that connected to SK having a first-class degree in music from the University of Oxford?
My own music degree was a lower 2nd from Huddersfield (I switched careers to IT fairly soon afterwards - seems to have been a good move).
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These days, and in view of how comments from even a non-entity like myself might be taken by those about whom they are made, I am reluctant to criticise an individual personally. With that being said I have to confess that Suzy Klein is not at all my cup of tea. I'm sure she is knowledgeable and a nice person and this is probably a fault of mine, but I do find her presentation irritating. Some problems:
# She seems to have a very thin skin. Once, when corrected by several listeners over some trivial point I heard her shouting "Alright! Alright!" in response. Not really the done thing I would suggest.
# Her use of "we", "We love that!". Who is this "we"? That's one of my pet hates.
# Her use of the glottal stop.
# Her overly-chummy attitude.
In a way this is probably unfair and some of it is down to the current presentation style seemingly mandated on Radio 3.
But, as you have above, I contrast this with Georgia Mann who is equally chummy and knowledgeable, but just comes across to me anyway as far more enjoyable to listen to. An issue of chemistry as one sometimes finds in real life perhaps?
Maybe it's an issue of "authenticity"?Last edited by The Lone Marmot; 19-06-20, 08:09.
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