Good Afternoon Peter,
Thanks for the humor (or is it humour)?????
And to all my 1st cousins (and 2nd cousins too) on both sides of Pond....
Have a Happy 4th of July,
Wesley
P.S. Why is it more fun to throw lit firecrackers and bottle rockets, instead of following the instructions on the package????? I would like to know....
Wesley S. Creel
Administrator of Programs
Pink Palace Family of Museums
3050 Central Avenue
Memphis, TN 38111
U.S.A.
www.memphismuseums.org
Office telephone 901.320.6370
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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gray, Peter
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:01 PM
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Subject: The Sound of Museums
Hi all
Apropos of Museum Careers and Courses (staples of this list when Evolution is not on the menu), you may be interested in this snippet from my forthcoming musical 'The Sound of Museums'. Of course, it helps if you are familiar with the 'Sound of Music'. Feel free to sing along, but please no costumes made from curtains...
Career
The scene: A department of Museum Studies. Some students discuss their prospects with a tutor. For unknown reasons they are dressed as nuns.
[To the tune of Maria]
Berthe: Unlock the door into the store, the floor has got a leak
Sophia: I'm feeling so frustrated that it's very hard to speak
Berthe: To fix a simple window, it will take at least a week
Catherine: So is it any wonder that I'm crabby?
Agatha: To get a start you work for free
Sophia: Oh, come on now, get real!
Berthe: You've fallen far behind your friends
Catherine: And that you can't conceal
Berthe: I hate to have to say it, but I very firmly feel
All four: Curating's not an asset to your CV
Margaretta: I'd like to say a word in its behalf
R. Mother: Then say it Sister Margaretta
Margaretta: The salary makes me laugh!
How do you get to have a good career?
How do you get a job with lots of pay?
What I desire, I'd like to make it clear,
Is oodles of money, enormously long holidays.
Many's the path I've tried and then abandoned,
Many's the time I've tried to find a rôle.
Accountancy won't impress
And teaching's too full of stress
And being a lawyer drives you up the pole
Oh, how do you get to have a good career
One where your worth's reflected in your pay?
When I'm working I'm confused
Out of focus, unamused
And I never know exactly where I am.
Re-arranging the exhibits
Oh, it really is the limit
When you're promised that tomorrow you'll get jam.
Under-funded, under-staffed
Should I cry or should I laugh?
Should I try to fix the leak inside the store?
Then I feel my pulses quicken,
Run round like a headless chicken
As the time for budget cuts rolls round once more.
How do you get to have a good career?
How do you get a job with lots of pay?
What I desire, I'd like to make it clear,
Is oodles of money, enormously long holidays.
Many's the path I've tried and then abandoned,
Many's the time I've tried to find a rôle.
Accountancy won't impress
And teaching's too full of stress
And being a lawyer drives you up the pole
Oh, how do you get to have a good career
One where your worth's reflected in your pay?
--
Peter M Gray
Museums Officer
Curiosity *may* have killed Schrödinger's cat.
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