PSA Update

[icarus]

Pimping this around...

PSA has a long list of authors she needs to hear from in order to reload their stories... Minx, Resonant....

But yay! The PSA is going back up.

In other news, I can't believe it, I'm actually writing Lucius Gen: The Metronome.

The spoiled young Malfoy heir finally meets someone who's not impressed.

Just completed the outline in chat, running it by electricandroid. Now I'm tempted to correct the murdering of Luna's fanfic characterisation. Plus there's the Percy/Snape that's been driving me mad, and another Snape/Peter, I still need to upload stories to the Percyness site, then the sleeping hulk of Snape Manor has been shaken yet stirred by Half-Blood Prince... and I have to be at work tomorrow and must do laundry. *fanfic pipe explodes*

*calls a fanfic plumber, phone rings insistently*

"Hello? Yeah, um... I've got all these stories I tried to cram through, and, um... which should I work on? Because it's, well, I'm up to my knees at this point."

The Metronome is entirely goseaward's fault. We started talking about classical music... Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor... The Firebird Suite... Rhapsody In Blue (in its original form, thank you Goosey, I didn't realise it was originally a player piano piece). *sighs* Takes me back.

I'm surprised how many on my flist are musically talented. cyanei, goseaward, electricandroid. Who else?

ETA: kaci_2005_tide, webbapettigrew, venivincere, juice817, and els_chan are among the musicians (and singers!).

Comments

[guest-age.livejournal.com]

I play alto sax, piano, and clarinet. Plus I sing. Not that I'm one to "toot my own horn," mind you. *whistles innocently* :-D

I would say work on Reunion first, but since that wasn't one of the choices, then I'd say go with The Metronome. It sounds interesting. :-D

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh cool! Yeah, I'm clarinet, recorder (lots of medieval pieces, soprano, alto, etc.), and piano. Been a while since I've played.

In all honesty, Reunion's stuck. :D I had a lot of ideas for it six months ago but got swept up in playing in the hp_dungeons instead.

I know the ending of. I know the next two-three parts. But several sections of the arc are a complete blank and I have to work on them (or at least have them mapped out) before I let the story wander all over the place.

Icarus

[blackletter]

I play the exact. Same. Instruments. (I used to be part of a medieval ensemble. I mostly played recorder, but the group organizer had a beautiful collection of medieval instruments, so I also got to play a crumhorn, an asp, a shawm...a whole assortment of woodwinds with goofy names.)

And I sing. Mostly in the car where I won't disturb my neighbors.

As for stories, I love Percy/Snape and Snape/Peter and both pairings are hard to come by, so I totally selfishly vote for one of those.

[venivincere]

*hem hem* On C, everyone. "ME ME ME MEEEEEEE"

I sing, play the piano (poorly) and every once and awhile venture onto the autoharp. Mostly, I sing. Our group is doing the Mozart Requiem for the Lenten Concert 2006; rehearsal starts in a month.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh this is fun! I'm glad I asked.

I sing, too. I used to have a professional quality voice, but that requires at least an hour of practice a day (which I used to do while stuck in rush hour traffic *g*).

Requiem is probably my all-time favourite piece. God. So beautiful and moving.

The autoharp? Oh wow. A few teachers of mine played it, but I was too little back then to do more than twang a few notes. I did occasionally play with my mother's Celtic harp, but that was something where I didn't know what I was doing.

Icarus

[venivincere]

I fell in love with John Cleese again when I saw him play the autoharp in "A Series of Unfortunate Events." I want to get the chord chart for that song and the words and then sing it to my son.

I like the Mozart Requiem, and it's going to be the most difficult piece I will have sung (to date, that title has been held by Handel's "Messiah" which we sang a couple years ago). But the most beautiful Requiem I have ever sung was the Durufle. If you haven't heard it (and I'm guessing you may already have) it's often recorded with the Faure Requiem, which I like but don't feel has the same reverence, sincerity and grace as the Durufle.

Where and what did you sing? Are you still singing anywhere?

[juice817.livejournal.com]

sing and play the piano. i'm currently my church's choir director, actually, although directing is a new thing for me. i've played rhapsody in blue before, although it's been years. i've always wanted to play the guitar but can't quite wrap my mind around strings. i can do simple things on the ukelele, though.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

*bobs head* I played Rhapsody In Blue (clarinet) many, many years ago. Clarinet soloist (in an orchestra version that backed up the concert piano -- the piano part was utterly unabridged, but we had a competition-quality pianist. Marcus, from Argentina I think, who had more nose than face but boy he could play.

I didn't deserve the soloist part, it was more a matter of default: our brilliant professional quality clarinetist was gone (she tried out for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra when she was in high school) so I was the next best option. There was someone who was more reliable, but less, hmm, musical. But I was erratic. Just couldn't handle the pressure of a solo, it either pushed me into the best performance I'd ever given, or into complete disaster. You never knew which way my nerves would take me.

Fascinating. I never tried directing, for the same reason I hated solos. :D

Icarus

[juice817.livejournal.com]

oh, directing is a nightmare for me. i was sort of volunteered and have no previous experience or education with it. i hate being the lone center of attention too, so standing in front of a group expecting me to direct them is massively intimidating. i've been doing it for about six months and have relaxed a little, but it's certainly shown me how much i don't know about music. :D

i've always regretted not learning other instruments or doing band in high school.

[webbapettigrew.livejournal.com]

Im sure you knew this, but I'm a band teacher. I double majored: clarinet and piano. I can play every band instrument.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ah! That's what I played -- clarinet and piano!

You'd mentioned you were a band director, but I'd complete forgotten. :D

What age group do you direct?

Icarus

[els-chan.livejournal.com]

I play clarinet and sax, and I like to pretend I play the flute even though I'm really bad at it. Also, I'm terrible at piano, which is no good since I need it to complete my major...oops.

Also, Lucius gen sounds absolutely fantastic. Just saying.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

You know, I wonder if we have wnough for an entire orchestra. (Except the woodwind section is getting rather large.)

Icarus

[izzybeth.livejournal.com]

string player here-- have played violin for 15 years, am semi-competent on viola and cello, and also play guitar and bass guitar. ::signs up for your orchestra::

[cyanei.livejournal.com]

*L!* I'm definitely musical, but aren't you taking my word for it that I'm talented? ( ;

[ceilidh]

I'm a music teacher. :D I play flute and piano, and I sing.

[goseaward.livejournal.com]

*grins* I don't think I gave you the whole list, sooo.....here's the whole list! :D

In order of number of lessons taken:

A month of flute (a bit hard with an underbite, it turns out)
One year of cello (loved the instrument, loathed the teacher)
2.5 years of voice, which like you I've now lost through nonpractice
7 years of percussion
10 years of piano

[presently.livejournal.com]

Self-taught on piano and school lessons on recorder (back in my first grade school) and then school lessons on clarinet (5th grade - 8th grade). I can't sing worth a damn, though. :(

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

[pops in] Hey, long time no see.

Not to toot my own horn, but I played the clarinet for nine years, sang for five, and practiced the organ for two. Unfortunately, once I got out of high school, I stopped playing and singing, so I'm very rusty.

[ajuxliapose.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't say talented, but I sing with my uni's chamber choir and I played in a steel band for 5 years. I also play piano, guitar and violin.

[electricandroid.livejournal.com]

This is me going YAY fic.