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El Burdo -> RE: Sanlucar curso 2026 (Apr. 7 2026 13:04:01)
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It is great to be able to vicariously join in with all these arrangements and others have noted it too. I'm sure you'll have a great time.
But...
I just looked at the course material in that link. I am shocked at the cost of all these units. Are they courses? It looks like €330 will buy you two hours of tuition and a gig. I thought a course was a regular daily class extended over a period, say a week, or even four days - not a one off. I have to pause when I think of that number as it seems exploitative. If there are 30 students all paying €330 that's €10,000 for 2 hours. That's Dentist level...
Or is it that things have become so expensive that that is the ordinary fee for what is effectively a limited summer school?
I attended several jazz summer schools over the years and fees were nothing like this - they were not presentations by gods no, but the staff were all at the top of any tree. There was a collegiate and shared endeavour to it. Does that exist in a two hour presentation? It looks more like an 'audience with'.
I may well be missing the point here. I do live financially in the 2000s, and everything seems expensive now, A pint of beer in Soho was £7.20 on Monday - huh? (Chad Wackerman at Ronnies - £65 for two hours). Maybe you all earn enough that €330 for two hours is acceptable. I can think of many people, i.e. most musicians I know for whom this cost is a dream. Are you being milked or is it reasonable? Or is it reasonable to be milked? Is this a market finding its acceptable level, like good capitalism always has? That is, what the market will pay?
I suspect that all similar courses in Spain will be charging pretty much the same.
Please don't attack me for my (fill in missing insult here) but I am genuinely shocked at the fee and duration. I seem certainly to be naive and would like to know if this is normal/acceptable/nae problem/seen you coming stuff.
It's not confined to flamenco of course, and I was shocked at the fee my lineage holding tai chi master wanted for a 4 hour course in London. He did have to come from Hong Kong but it was less than half what the Sanlucar course management wants.
For what it's worth, I think the arrangements for meeting up and sharing time in Spain are the point of the journey; Kitarist put his finger on it - your descriptions and accommodation issues are very enjoyable at one remove, particularly if the reader is familiar with the places. The tuition, I suppose you'll see.
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