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I am speaking for my specialization, but there are places in the world where being an organist is truly a profession:
http://www.agohq.org/home.html
There is also a very rich salary guide
http://www.agohq.org/docs/pdf/salary.pdf
... unbelievable! Places where civilization still exists
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The fact is that in America if someone believes in you, they are happy to finance you... here they won't even give you the 5 per mille ....
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How beautiful... if it weren't for the fact that the choice to immigrate is too radical and must be well-weighed ....
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Every way is a country
http://www.edisproduction.de/2013/10/14/best-coin-ever-spent/
Highly topical and communicative! Let's help the Music to survive!!!
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It would be enough if culture counted ... the rest would follow itself
«Poor my Italy where no one teaches great music» The violinist: «If I were Minister of Culture, I would enhance artistic education in schools»
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Valchiria wrote:It would be enough if culture counted ... the rest would follow
«Poor my Italy where no one teaches great music» The violinist: «If I were Minister of Culture, I would enhance artistic education in schools»
One cannot think that people like our politicians and particularly the ministers of education and culture, who have succeeded one another over time, to whom I also add the mass of dusty bureaucrats completely insensitive and ignorant regarding musical culture, can carry out reforms that help young people grow—as happens in all civilized states—prepared and in conditions to appreciate music. This has led to having a large group of cultural handicapped in Italy because, in my opinion, the handicap is not only physical but also cultural. Not to mention then the scandal of the opera houses and the conservatories.
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Alas! The programs were not drafted by politicians, but by the so-called technicians...
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which is even worse...... it would have been enough to update the old ones and that's it...... in my opinion
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antares86 wrote:what is even worse...... it would have been enough to update the old ones and that's it...... in my opinion
As far as composition is concerned, the new programs are much better; I recognize they are very demanding, so it is another parameter of natural selection
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AbateFaria wrote:As far as composition is concerned, I much prefer the new programs; I recognize that they are very demanding, so it is another parameter of natural selection
in fact I was referring to piano especially ahahah I don't know the new composition program
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Worlds where music is a profession (important and necessary)?... Here!
photo taken on the island of Jersey by a friend of mine!
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...as was to be demonstrated:
Andrea Marcon: «Outside of Italy, it matters who knows how to play»
http://www.ilcorrieremusicale.it/2013/11/19/andrea-marcon-fuori-dallitalia-conta-chi-sa-suonare/
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...always ...
"Musician profession: yes, but what do you do for a living?"
http://www.plindo.com/rubriche/lorenzo-maiani/professione-musicista-si-ma-di-lavoro-cosa-fai/
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is unemployed okay as an answer?
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Silbermann wrote:I am speaking for my specialization, but there are places in the world where being an organist is truly a profession:
http://www.agohq.org/home.html
There is also a very rich salary guide
http://www.agohq.org.../pdf/salary.pdf
... unbelievable! Places where civilization still exists
Music is an art, not a hobby. It is right to pay for it
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I came across this article, a testimony of worlds light-years away from ours but also just a "few" km away...
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..."we" cannot afford anything
Being the best is useless, Italy cannot afford it
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An art like music is not a hobby, it is not even a job, it is life. Every musician plays primarily for themselves and to share a piece of their life with others...
"Personality is an absolutely essential element for every true interpretation. When Rubinstein plays Beethoven's passionate Sonata for us, he does not just offer us Beethoven, but also himself, and thus he offers us Beethoven in the absolute"
cit. Oscar Wilde
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When it takes time... it takes time
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The story of "Yes, but what do you do for work-work?" is the leitmotif of our lives, I believe. No regrets about leaving Italy and its hypocrisy to go live in Germany. After three years here, sometimes I still feel uneasy when I realize that I have a real salary, pay taxes, and am considered a worker like everyone else. It's absurd, the brainwashing they did to us since we were children—a bit strange ones who, instead of spending afternoons playing Nintendo, would bang our heads against triplets and arpeggios... "But are you still there studying?" was the typical phrase of my Sunday afternoons. And now that I am happy in a foreign country, I even hear people say "Oh well, it's easy for you since you left Italy..." or even worse "Ah, you're in Germany? Lucky you (?!?), why don't you find a spot for me too?".
Music is passion, but that doesn't mean the musician should be considered a second-class worker. We should have the right to work for free if we feel like it, to get paid without feeling like thieves, and not to be grateful like hungry dogs every time someone recognizes our work with a (horror!) payment.
