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[artsyhonker]

Reviewing various choral composition competition things, and one of them says:

"The winner will receive a monetary prize of €1000 (one thousand Euro), a diploma and a recording of his opus."

Emphasis mine.

Not going to burn my words on this, because it's directly related to my PhD area and it may well be due to prejudice on the part of the translators rather than the organisers, but this sort of thing does rather get up my nose.

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[artsyhonker]

This one, on the other hand, wants an orchestrally-accompanied work suitable for amateur choir, at least 15 minutes long, for a possible maximum prize of, er, rather less than a month's rent here.

I guess/hope it goes further in the Czech Republic.

(I'm actually half-tempted by this, because I almost certainly wouldn't win but it gives me a deadline to finish a multi-movement work which I could then put online; and it dovetails with a choir-and-orchestra thing I'm doing in Aberdeen. But I think, on the whole, not.)