SO VERY EXCLUSIVE IN SWEDEN

What is there to say?

I have just noticed this organisation:

Svenska Conductorsföreningen

This means the Swedish Conductors' Association:

http://www.conductors.se/

I see in the Association's statutes that a basic requirement for membership is –

Fullgjord 4-årig utbildning på Petö-institutet

http://www.conductors.se/uploads/1/8/4/7/18476466/stadgar_040823.pdf

I take this to mean 'a completed four-year education at the Pető Institute'.

I also see, on the same page –

Föreningen skall sträva efter att som medlem tillhöra en eller flera internationella conductorsföreningar

This I take to mean that the Association will strive to be a member of international conductors' bodies (what they?).

What interesting ramifications this all has.

A perhaps not wholly unrelated topic

From almost exactly two years ago:

http://www.conductive-world.info/2012/11/jobs-for-conductors.html