Megan<p>"The Royal Conservatory approach to music is the capitalist approach"</p><p>I was marvelling over how 2 regulars at the free meal drop-in were playing raucous boogie-woogie style piano together.</p><p>I got up this grade 8 Conservatory piano. I could never do that. </p><p>Musician husband pointed out that Conservatory makes good workers who can follow instructions. Not creators. Not collaborators. Not community. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/RCM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RCM</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a></p>