Yehudi Menuhin: Who Was Yehudi? - BBC Four - presenter Clemency Burton-Hill

[ahinton]

There was an interesting discussion topic on Friday's edition of The Wright Stuff (CH5): "Which do employers prepare: hard working or talented?" and from surveys it turns out they prefer talented people. There seemed to be a consensus that talented people in general are regarded as more attractive than those who achieve through hard graft. As one who's never been much talented at anything, I was left feeling rather sad.

Don't you mean "prefer" rather than "prepare"?...

[Bryn]

Don't you mean "prefer" rather than "prepare"?...

Predictive text?

[verismissimo]

... He sort of infers that in the search for personal insights the impartiality of the programme was compromised by CB-H who had lessons off Menuhin and her father Humphrey Burton wrote a biography of Menuhin.

I always felt that Humphrey Burton only had one mode of operation... to SELL whatever was the topic in hand. And his daughter does exactly the same. No use listening for any kind of balanced appraisal. It's simply not what either of them brought/bring to their work.

It (unnecessarily) irritates me currently in Young Musician programmes.

[teamsaint]

There was an interesting discussion topic on Friday's edition of The Wright Stuff (CH5): "Which do employers prepare: hard working or talented?" and from surveys it turns out they prefer talented people. There seemed to be a consensus that talented people in general are regarded as more attractive than those who achieve through hard graft. As one who's never been much talented at anything, I was left feeling rather sad.

Given that surveys frequently get things wrong, ( EG general elections with a relatively limited number of choices) I'd suggest that what employers say and what they actually do may be two different things.

Companies taking on young employees would, I suggest, tend to look pretty favourably on those with a CV full of interesting experiences, as opposed to those with "only" high grades to show.

oh, and re your last sentence, we do , IMO tend to use the word " talented" in some rather limited ways.

Just saying.....

[Barbirollians]

Wonder if CBH had prefaced her statement with " arguably " whether it would have been more acceptable to those taking such umbrage .

I certainly regard it as less informed than utter bilge such as this from Heffer

Three years after Sammons, Yehudi Menuhin made his famous recording of it, conducted by Elgar himself. That version is suitable for those engaging in an act of casual tourism through Elgar .

[greenilex]

Personally, I have been a Menuhin fan all my life, as much for his charisma and obvious passion for the music as anything. His sister was wonderful, too.

[gurnemanz]

I caught the excellent Monsaingeon interview/documentary on Arte TV via satellite last night. It's about to be re-released on DVD.

[pastoralguy]

I caught the excellent Monsaingeon interview/documentary on Arte TV via satellite last night. It's about to be re-released on DVD.

I had it on VHS and it made a huge impression on me.