Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Recognising Genius.



A favourite piece of classical music for a change. And a salutary reminder that Berlioz was refused the Prix de Rome because his music wasn’t conventional enough. I was once refused an Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society for the same reason.

But genius will out, in spite of the Establishment’s best efforts to subdue it – certainly in the case of Berlioz, though equally certainly not in mine. In all fairness, that’s a reasonable reflection of our relative claims to the status of genius. I’ve never been more than passably good at anything.

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