They're really different. I think I have already mentioned that while in the UK people generally find a private teacher for their instrument, or do it through a school scheme, here there are municipal music school, conservatoires and so on. The situation is a little more complex than I had first understood, because the schools vary in the rigidity of their organisation: the most, the conservatoires, next the municipals, then the associations. Our music school is an association, but it tends to apply the standards of the municipal schools with its programme of cycles, etc. Britain - grade 1 to 8, grade 8 being roughly equivalent to A-level, pre university/conservatoire. France - 3 cycles, each taking about 4 years, with 3ème cycle being roughly equivalent to grade 8. Theory of music - UK to take grade 8 you need theory grade 5. In France you study theory alongside your instrumental studies, very slowly. Catrin's flute music is MUCH more difficult than the stuff she does in theor
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Every one a gem (as they say).
Meanwhile:
My wife's just gone to Indonesia.
Jakarta?
No, she flew.
ps. Please email me your thoughts on unity - I'm in two minds over it.
Maybe we could dailogue by email and then I could post something afterwards?
New York?
Yes...
Postmodernism - you have to love it
Pat's come running upstairs to ask why I am laughing so hysterically.
Two hydrogen atoms go to a bar and have a few drinks. After a while, they decide to leave. On the way out, one says, “Say, I think I lost an electron!” The other one asks, “Are you sure?”. The first one responds, “I’m positive.”