--- hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you mean "abitur" ?? Means "Abgang" in German, Abgang > from School, leaveing school. In Austria it is called > "Matura" or Maturity, but it is anything else than maturity, > but it is meant as "maturity to go to university". >
Of course I meant Abitur. Studentereksamen in Danish, which also means an examn qualifying for further studies. But it isnt really so any more, and regarding some studies and some attractive colleges it even back in my days was so, that one had to have a high average score. Mine allowed me to study where I wanted. It even allowed me to study musicology after my rather early retirement. That was great fun to dig down in the toolboxes of Bach and Schönberg among others. About the self-alleged singer: He maintains to have studied 6 years at a private school in Copenhagen. I tried to trace that school. It does not exist any more. The person who had given his name to that school, was a Finnish singer and pedagogue, who was born in 1880. The present singer was born some time around 1950. Some people teach into a very ripe age, but I still smell a rat. For those reading Danish the page holds a copy of an ad, where the singer asks for a good pianist, who will get the chance to boost his/hers career. The sad thing is, that in some contexts people get away with making music at this level. In some social circles music is not something to love and to understand. It only is there for snobbish reasons. The most relevant word is sad. Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
