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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
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1:56 pm - il tuo sarà l’ultimo mio grido d’amore!
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Found online a more complete libretto of Turandot, ie. including the parts that were never set to music. Why the hell wasn't this set to music? As many problems as I have with the ending and as much as I'd like it to end badly, it would have been so much better if Alfano had kept the whole Liebestod thing going. It's right there! (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) vassilissa, you may be interested.)
( off-the-cuff translation )
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| Saturday, June 12th, 2010
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9:44 pm
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| Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
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6:04 pm - Run to me mother of anyone's child, and tell me the revelry planned
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Meme via ![[info]](http://l-files.livejournal.net/userhead/50?v=1320914111) angevin2 and gileonnen.
The first ten people to comment in this post get to request a drabble of any pairing/character (from one of my usual fandoms). Original fic is also allowed--you can toss names, photos, descriptions of personalities at me--with the provision that none of the characters be from any works in progress. In return, those ten people have to post this in their journals, regardless of their ability level.
I reserve the right to write more than a drabble if you give me a good prompt; you reserve the right not to repost if you don't feel like it.
This meme is also still live. And I owe you fic from it, Gil, because I am a horrible person.
Three APs down, two to go. Gov was all right, French easy, Calc A NIGHTMARE. Nothing I studied for last night was on it. I hope to scrape a 5. English and Euro next, should be fine unless we get more than one essay about any of the many things Morrison never taught us. Time to surf Wikipedia!
Also, yay, Chaucer is back!
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| Sunday, March 1st, 2009
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9:06 pm
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Meme via gileonnen:
Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.
All fic at my website.
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| Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
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11:32 am - see what you lost when you left this world, this sweet old world
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All right, so I finally got round to selecting the (27) photos I wanted to post from the ~100 that I took when I visited HMS Victory last summer!
(Some very matter-of-fact, some kind of artsy.)
( Here they are [warning - GINORMOUS] )
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| Friday, June 6th, 2008
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10:57 pm - for those who prefer enjoyment to employment
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Earthquake Strips
^ Read these. They are important.
Soooo...finished my waltz for class. Recording went all right, except that I transposed the horn part wrong (up a fourth instead of up a fifth/down a fourth) and that delayed things a little. Also my conducting sucks enough that the bassoon failed to come in on the first note of the first measure. On the plus side, I'm really, really pleased with the stuff I'm composing for Yule Morning.
My application to be copyeditor for the school paper was accepted. I love it. They let me be incredibly nitpicky. (Subject line is a quote from one of the articles I was editing today. I thought it was such a great turn of phrase. Unfortunately, one of the other articles I edited today named Sir Arthur Miller as the composer of "Pineapple Poll." O_o)
Oh, and Nationals - 4th ETA: 3rd in the country! w00t.
Edit: Barricade Day. Chroist, how do I forget every year.
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| Saturday, January 12th, 2008
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2:33 pm - she that could noooooooooooooble conquests boast
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Fehhhhh. Awful audition today. Everyone else has a much prettier voice than I have. :( And I'd worked on "Lysander" for months and they asked for "Caro mio ben" instead. Also, after the long high B-flat in "Trübe Augen" the accompanist somehow got half a measure off and was so for the rest of the piece. It was disconcerting.
(Well, it wasn't as bad as my Amahl audition, because it wasn't at 7:45 in the morning, but I know that in the past I've done the coloratura much more cleanly and the high notes with more vibrato. That said, I think the first "Holde" sounded great, not that it will redeem the rest. --I hope the Aida chorus director gets back to me.)
In other news, got the Oliver! DVD. Not only is it much better produced than they've been in past years (multiple cameras!) but I sound good. Really actually very good. Unfortunately the screen goes black for about twenty seconds during the funniest part of "I Shall Scream".
I have to get back into writing. Fanfic, original, meta, something.
Edit: O person who wrote to the paper complaining that to run an article on Christmas Day having to do with a local temple was offensive to Christians: Shut up. Just shut up.
Dear editor of said paper: Good on you for listing, under the letter, every article run that day having to do with Christmas.
Mum: You are such a fucking racist. I wish I was capable of holding a grudge, because if you insult my best friend one more time I really will want to fucking disown you.
(You can tell how angry I am at her. I never swear. Just--aslkdhjklahfgh. what.)
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| Saturday, August 11th, 2007
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1:59 pm - The rosy light of hope shines for you - dear friend, don't fear!
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Conservatory concert went very well. I sang "Trübe Augen" from Der Freischütz better than I'd ever sung it before - hit the high notes with vibrato, and got the coloratura right on. An old lady came up to me afterwards and complimented me on how well I sang it, and I could tell she knew what she was talking about, the piece, because she mentioned the high B-flats in it. It really is such a lovely song.
And the Susanna-Cherubino duet was such fun. I dressed up as a boy, of course, and wore my tricorne hat, and the staging was great - I got thrown into a chair which slid about five feet, and we were both running around hysterically, and then I jumped off the stage.
(My private teacher there looked like Bianca Castafiore from Tintin. The hair was different, but the profile was almost exactly the same. It was disturbing.)
So - off to England! Am expecting to, among other things, see the Victory and Mary Rose, spend time with my grandparents, and mercilessly make fun of cousins George and Fred.
Still have so much summer work, aaargh.
Meme, to be answered when I return: Comment with a topic of five things that never happened with a character and I will write it out. Or five things you want to know about a character. Or five things that perhaps happened to a character but we didn't see in canon. Frankly, we've got plenty of options.
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| Thursday, July 19th, 2007
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4:57 pm - and ach! what a beautiful skeleton you will make!
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( two silly Les Mis drabbles )
I'm reading Trilby, it is phenomenal and creepy and beautiful, read it, tell me not to cross it over with Les Mis or La Bohème.
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| Monday, July 16th, 2007
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4:12 pm - "Bastille Day piece"
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| Friday, July 6th, 2007
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3:38 pm - "Rocaille-Barocco"
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| Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
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9:47 am - bones without names, photographs framed in reeds
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Everyone is leaving.
The seniors are graduating, Sensei James is getting freaking deployed...am depressed again.
No one even told me about Sensei's sendoff. I arrived an hour late, at the time when my class normally is, just in time for cleanup. But I'm glad I got to say good-bye.
Though I had a great time at Talia's birthday party yesterday. Probably the last time I'll be seeing some of them for quite a while. And I really felt like I was part of the group, not like at theatre parties. People didn't ignore me. We talked about teachers and made fun of Ian for going to Amherst.
(Allow me to angst a bit, please, as I don't do it much.)
Also, why are the Nationals results not up yet? I want to know who won.
"Dreaming Through the Noise" is a fantastic album, and "Pontchartrain" is a gorgeous creepy song. I do love Vienna Teng.
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| Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
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10:19 pm - only a port girl, a shadow on the street
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Happy Barricade Day, Mizzies.
They're making a film about Edith Piaf! Neat. One does learn something from sidebar ads.
Also, got a 97 on my term paper - highest grade in the class, for which I got the Best Paper Award and a copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Shultz is having me send the paper to Concord Review.
On a second viewing of POTC3: ( possible spoilers )
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| Monday, June 4th, 2007
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9:49 pm - Poor Frank. He was so young.
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Well. Nationals.
7-1, lost to a prep school from Jersey in quarterfinals. Much better than we expected, but still depressed.
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| Friday, May 25th, 2007
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2:56 pm - Nobody move! I've dropped my brain!
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
Edit 29 May: I tend to title entries with quotes from what I'm reading/listening to/watching at the time of posting, and "Nobody move! I've dropped my brain!" is one of my favorite lines in AWE. But I've realized it's strangely apt; someone's brain, somewhere, was dropped in the making of this.
( review - spoilery )
School carnival was yesterday; the team ran the divorce booth (next to Marriage and Adoption) and actually made about $40 and a bit between selling divorces and sweets.
"We respect same-sex marriages. That is, we separate them." -Kazim
And later was the Academic Team party, which went over very well; we played Articulate! and Trivial Pursuit (not really, just read questions) and charades and ate the leftover carnival food, of which there was much.
(We had a whole cake. It was a raffle prize, but the guy who won had already left, so Chris and Matt got it.)
Ow, sunburn. Why do I never learn?
Happy Glorious 25th, by the way. Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably priced love! And a hard-boiled egg!
Oh, and have I mentioned that Ouran High School Host Club is awesome crack?
--SPOILERS IN COMMENTS.--
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| Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
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9:42 pm - upward beyond the constant flow there was moondling
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So apparently my sister didn't know that snickerdoodles were actually real. I've been unable to get out of her what she thought they were supposed to be. But she's never going to live this down.
Also, the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is made of win.
And the Helen Hayes Awards totally screwed us over Parade.
I think I'll set part of a historical play or book for my final history project. Must find something good and lyrical.
Today, when I was waiting at the church while the voice lesson before mine was going on, the church bells were tolling six and then playing music, as they do. I was struck by the contrast of the bells and the other girl's singing coming from the sanctuary, and new melodies and orchestrations were unfolding in my head, but it's the sort of thing that doesn't stick in one's head to write down.
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| Thursday, May 17th, 2007
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9:29 pm - What student? He was taken to be a soldier in the army! A soldier!
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APS FINISHED WOOOOOO. Fizzicks was a horror, World was overall quite decent.
( Anti-OTPs )
Also, I have no homework. It's fantastic to be LJing without feeling guilty.
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| Thursday, May 10th, 2007
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9:34 pm - Sleep no more
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The Met canceled Hoffmann and are doing Carmen instead. Not on. Hoffmann was the only show in next season's rep that I was really looking forward to, that I was going to buy tickets for the day they came out. It is gorgeous and creepy and I want to see it. Not fair. Particularly as it's something you need the Met for, with effects and stuff, the NYCO set for Carmen was perfectly good.
There must be a book somewhere about ecosystems on famous historical figures, i.e. Rasputin's beard, Mao's teeth. I will find it and read it.
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| Monday, May 7th, 2007
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6:32 pm - We're tired of the rock and unsteady with the roll
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If you'll allow me a moment of squee...
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
Got Sense of Occasion in the mail today, squee-worthy in itself as we've been unable to buy it in the States, but not only that, CHRIS MENTIONS ME in his notes to "Edge of the World".
OMGYAY!!!!
(The re-recordings of "Tam Lin" and "Polly on the Shore" make me very happy as well. ^___^)
Also, read my Snowball-speech in English today and apparently channeled Lenin a bit.
And vote in the fic poll plz, post below this one.
Edit 9 May: And it is a great CD, it is. My favorite tracks are "Polly on the Shore" (because it's still awesome), "Edge of the World" (my song! and an almost Latin rhythm to parts of it), and "Hawkwood's Army" (very old-school). A much better album than Over the Next Hill, which was annoyingly twee at points and got on my nerves quickly.
Read more of Macbeth and got to read the title role this time, as we were in smaller groups and I called it before anyone else could. II.2 and 3, so I got to be slightly hysterical. Unfortunately did not get to to do the dagger monologue, and the girl who read it wasn't that great. :( crownmarionette, who read Lady Macbeth today, was very good though. ^__^
Also? Brain? Didn't need the idea of Guil=Bill and Ros=Ted. Thanks, but no thanks.
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| Friday, May 4th, 2007
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9:36 pm - Faria sees the prisoner from behind, looking as usual at the sky through the slit-windows
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