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**RG3rGWcA** · 03-25-2012, 02:07 AM

If I may be so bold........A Ph.D does not necessarily equate to excellent music composition or creation. There are excellently accomplished composers and artists who have no degree at all. And then there are those of us like (me) who have studied lots of music theory and composition but can't write a memorable melody enough to save my neck from the guillotine

As organist I have played the works of JSBach and Charles Tournemire almost exclusively with som Dupre, Franck, Vierne, and Widor thrown in for good measure. I have sampled(played) the music of Sorabji(organ symphonies), all three of them and am satisfied that I have been there and done that........Time to move on........Now I am head over heels in LOVE with the Choral Instrument.......And doing musicological research in the different (phases) of the development of the "Russian Style" of choral singing.

If I hear something that piques my interest it won't matter if it was composed yesterday or in 1313 A.D. So, bring it dude............

03-25-2012, 02:07 AM	#2
RG3rGWcA Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 499 Senior Member	If I may be so bold........A Ph.D does not necessarily equate to excellent music composition or creation. There are excellently accomplished composers and artists who have no degree at all. And then there are those of us like (me) who have studied lots of music theory and composition but can't write a memorable melody enough to save my neck from the guillotine As organist I have played the works of JSBach and Charles Tournemire almost exclusively with som Dupre, Franck, Vierne, and Widor thrown in for good measure. I have sampled(played) the music of Sorabji(organ symphonies), all three of them and am satisfied that I have been there and done that........Time to move on........Now I am head over heels in LOVE with the Choral Instrument.......And doing musicological research in the different (phases) of the development of the "Russian Style" of choral singing. If I hear something that piques my interest it won't matter if it was composed yesterday or in 1313 A.D. So, bring it dude............
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