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[katherine marsh durkes]

HAHAHA!  This sounds EXACTLY like my experience as a composition student,
except that I actually got a C- in 20th Century music because I didn't
fill out the required "concert reports."  The deal was that we had to
attend a certain number of 20th century music concerts and do little
reports on them (I guess to prove that we really went)...I went to to all
the concerts,  but I didn't fill out enough reports!  The professor SAW me
at most of the concerts too..
I bet all of my classmates are teaching music in public elementary
schools, which is probably worse than being unemployed!
Sometimes you just have to laugh...
Kate.

On 4 Jun 1999, Harry Bissell wrote:

> Hey MC:
> Whats wrong with you. This is totally normal behavior for "Music" students.
> (my degree).  In my music history class, I suffered through 2 years of the
> dark ages, the baroque, the romantic... all with listening tests... guess the
> composer tests... etc. I did lousy. So we get to the LAST WEEK of class and
> now we're going to cover the entire history of music from STRAVINSKY to the
> present... including electronic music... cage... babbit... everyone.
> So... come the listening test I ACE it... because I'm the only one who
> actually listened to the assignments at all... (and can tell one synth from
> another by the sound...)
> The rest of the class (Boring...ho-hum....) fails. I get a 99, the next
> highest grade is a 70. Then some B!tch tell the professor "You really aught to
> throw this test out because nobody did well" (Picture flames of Hell) I said
> "You @#$!^@$#(*&^$%#^@!&^% I had to suffer with those Bvllsh!t madrigals
> etc... while you guys Hvmped me and I got the lousy grades... now I got 99 and
> you got D!CK. So you are IDIOTS and the test grade stands... NO CURVE !!! And
> Y'know... I got my way and they all flunked! Synthesizer revenge  !!!
>     But its an illustration of the contempt most "musicians" hold for "modern"
> music.
>     I won't even tell the story about Pink Floyd's "Echoes" being denounced as
> "Drug-culture music" (which David Gilmore assures us "its not") and "Program
> Music for Euphoria". I hope all my classmates are unemployed !!!!!  :-) Harry