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| Re: Another Friday [message #18553 is a reply to message #18551 ] |
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 blondviolinist
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And . . . this is all your fault, you forum musicians. Especially the singers, but you’re all implicated, all you people who keep posting about music.
Do you want us to repent in dust and ashes? Because I doubt that we will.
He didn’t laugh. He sat there staring into space (or possibly at Silly Canon, which was stretched on the piano rack in front of him) and finally said: you know, you want someone really good, someone who will understand what you want, and able to hear what you’re capable of and tell you how to get there—and what you’re not capable of and need to give up on. He then fixed me with a hard eye and said, you know you’ll have to go back occasionally to check on progress.
I like Oisin more and more each Friday music post...
Oh, but you don't need to pay for a fancy voice teacher. You can just take a voice lesson on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWt2YJCJleY
::laughs evilly, then ducks and runs for cover::
"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard
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| Re: Another Friday [message #18563 is a reply to message #18551 ] |
Fri, 24 July 2009 22:31 |
EMoon
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We had a collie...we went to the beach with the collie...we drove home in an un-airconditioned car, 70-odd miles, with said collie.
For whose fragrance after a day or an overnight camp-out on the beach (!) my mother made up the term "Eau de cologne de collie..."
When the little terrier was still alive, so we had two dogs on those trips, she (being a sleek little short-haired dog) made it clear any wet-dog smell was not coming from her. The collie didn't care.
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| Re: Another Friday [message #18565 is a reply to message #18551 ] |
Sat, 25 July 2009 00:34 |
karalianne
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I should take voice lessons someday. Though I've spent an inordinate amount of time singing in choirs and stage musicals (and playing in the pit orchestras for said musicals). They want me to join the choir at church, because I'm a strong "soprano" (I'm a strong alto, actually, but I can sing second soprano quite well and have been known to dip into the tenor range on occasion).
My mother took voice lessons her last year at University, and she told me it was wonderful. (She began University in the early 2000's and went part-time and recently completed her Bachelor of Music. The degree I did full-time in the mid-1990's.)
Someday I will have a Mac at my disposal again, and then I will be able to have Finale and write my music properly. I can't tell you how much I am looking forward to that! (I refuse to use that program on a PC; it'll just get buggered up.)
‡‡ Although this dynamics thing could definitely catch on. I think it appeals to my control freakery. No, I said loud! That’s a crescendo, you oaf!
I take it you are a fan of the sfz? 
One of my first pieces, I didn't put in any dynamics because I didn't think they were actually all that important. They're still the last thing I add - I want to get the notes down first, and that's difficult since I happen to think (and compose) in melody and then harmony, not in chords.
(Oh, also, I try not to talk about myself too much, but when I do such things is because I'm trying to explain how I relate, not because I'm self-involved. Really. Though I am a writer and a musician. Perhaps that means I don't stand a chance...?)
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." Albert Camus
"I want to remake the world; anything less is not worth the trouble." Karen Cushman
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| Re: Another Friday [message #18567 is a reply to message #18551 ] |
Sat, 25 July 2009 01:29 |
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Bratsche
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make it worth Oisin’s time to have me infesting his space**** And for me to be paying for it. But let me also observe that I have, more than once, on bad ME days, rung him up Friday morning and said, I feel like death on toast^ but I would like to come anyway, can he bear it/think of something to do with me?
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Oisin is great. He didn’t laugh.
I thoroughly enjoy our snapshots of Oisin. And I'm not in the least surprised to hear that he doesn't laugh at you and can always find things to do with (for? to?) you. It is very clear you are happily (grand scheme happily, not every given moment), thoroughly emmeshed in your music. How could he not find that a delight to work with (maybe complicated delight sometimes, but still delight).
And . . . this is all your fault, you forum musicians. Especially the singers, but you’re all implicated, all you people who keep posting about music.
I'm delighted to hear that you're going to try to get a few voice lessons. I hope they end up being fun and informative. I'm not sure I post often enough to be considered part of the crowd of musical rabble-rousers, but I'll happily take part of the blame. Life is always better with music in it, the more the merrier (as long there are still dogs (cats in my case), books, outdoors, family, etc. too).
I'm looking forward to hearing the Canon you said you're writing for us whenever you share it with us.
Wendy
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| Re: Another Friday [message #18573 is a reply to message #18572 ] |
Sat, 25 July 2009 06:18 |
b_twin_1
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| zerlina wrote on Sat, 25 July 2009 05:29 |
You can also knit indoors in bad weather. And I could be wrong, but I assume your knitting bag doesn’t leap and cavort and get under your feet and howl if you neglect it. Or step on it, because it’s getting under your feet.
Except when the Hellhound(s, in your case) decides the knitting is a new and exciting toy, and it has to be unwound from around chairs, sofas, bookshelves, the banisters...
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Is that the Voice of Experience talking?? LOL
I'm sure the puppies would enjoy knitting too... *g*
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Another Friday [message #18605 is a reply to message #18577 ] |
Sun, 26 July 2009 00:22 |
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Diane in MN
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| Mrs Redboots wrote on Sat, 25 July 2009 05:59 |
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Why toast? Death on kippers? Death on a bed of watercress, radicchio and fennel, with garlic croutons and mayonnaise?
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I always say "death warmed up", which is pretty weird, too. But I love the American expression "roadkill".
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I don't hear it so much any more, but "looking like death warmed over" was a common descriptive phrase for people who were ill, very tired, etc., at least in my family.
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Another Friday [message #18608 is a reply to message #18590 ] |
Sun, 26 July 2009 01:04 |
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Diane in MN
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| Robin wrote on Sat, 25 July 2009 17:53 |
Yes, I've begun to feel that there must be some Dane in the native hellhound make up! --I wonder if sphincter control also has to do with being entire/unspayed. I know bladder weakness is an occasional result of spaying. And Messing Around with the Bits *must* have some (er . . . ) knock on effect.
GOOD LUCK. Things should DEFINITELY not be allowed to start at 8 am. AGILITY?!?!???
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Well, Danes descend from sighthounds and mastiffs, so it's not surprising that they have some things in common! The truly irritating part of the rain experience is that they (and I, if I have to take someone out on lead) would not get as wet if they'd just DO it and come back inside. But they can't be convinced of this.
I don't compete in Agility, although I might take Teddy to a class just as a confidence-builder when he's old enough to start jumping. Our working breed club's agility trials are this weekend, and a lot of help is needed at a trial. Today I was, at various times, a ring steward/jump bar setter, timer, and leash runner. More fun in store for tomorrow . . . 
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Another Friday [message #18654 is a reply to message #18627 ] |
Mon, 27 July 2009 01:07 |
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| Robin wrote on Sun, 26 July 2009 17:56 |
Eww indeed. The funny thing is how accustomed you (may) get to your own vulgar slang. Cr*p on a raft sounds MUCH worse than Sh*t on a shingle because the latter is what I'm USED to.
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Apropos of nothing much, the middle schoolers' term for chicken-fried steak at the school where I taught was "elephant scabs!" Children enjoy grossness so much! (By the way, if you're not familiar with the dish, it is a roundish piece of thin inexpensive steak, well-pounded, breaded with a batter coating, and fried.)
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| Re: Another Friday [message #18668 is a reply to message #18654 ] |
Mon, 27 July 2009 07:15 |
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Mrs Redboots
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| abigailmm wrote on Mon, 27 July 2009 06:07 |
Apropos of nothing much, the middle schoolers' term for chicken-fried steak at the school where I taught was "elephant scabs!" Children enjoy grossness so much! (By the way, if you're not familiar with the dish, it is a roundish piece of thin inexpensive steak, well-pounded, breaded with a batter coating, and fried.)
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And absolutely delicious - I make a point of having it whenever I visit the USA, as it's not (as far as I know) served here.
There used to be some kind of boiled meatloaf served here that was known as "boiled baby" to the schoolgirls who had to put up with it. I don't think it's made much any more. And I am sure there are other disgusting food names in current use, but my mind has done a Monday-morning blank!
When my daughter was a very small girl, she came home from school and explained very solemnly that they had had "Salami for lunch, Mummy, only they called it Spaniel". She meant spam, of course, but I am inclined to refer to it as spaniel!
Mrs Redboots
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