Funny - the more things change....
I did a great deal of research into the state of the performing arts - and particularly vocal and solo instrumental music (piano, violin) in London just before the Great War, including a great deal of reading about the "rival" music schools - the RCM and the RAM. The impression one got from reading first-hand accounts by pupils then, and second-hand accounts by critics and historians, was that the RAM was always something of the "also ran" school for students who couldn't get into the RCM: also good, but not nearly as good as the Royal College.
Reading between the lines on the posts here, I get the sense that this may still be the case. Well, England is a country that loves its traditions.... :)
Karen Mercedes Who has always been tickled by the fact that so much of Gustav Holst's career was spent teaching singing to young girls in Hammersmith.
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html *************************************** Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds With their highly original sound. The pianos they played are still working, But they're both six feet underground. - Michael Palin
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