Conservatory types are sometimes quite insular. Met Peggy Stern at the Deer Head Inn in Delaware Water Gap the night Princess Di crashed. Asked her about Howard Hanson. She said "Who?"
You seem a bit that way, wrapped up in your own private orb.
I am an educator, de facto and in spirit. I spend a lot of time educating myself. Never stop.
Trish once tried to put down my knowledge of music by ignorantly saying I got it by "mostly listening". Isn't that tantamount to saying knowkedge of literature is gained by "mostly reading".
Then, there's the aspect of being a libnut, which explains a lot of the deficit.
Ta-Ta.
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