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I got the idea for this thread from another forum, where it has over 19,000 replies and is still growing. (Admittedly, the other board is significantly bigger than TC.) In this thread, people can share all the happenings of their life that they feel like sharing, be they good or bad, big or small, without the guilt of being an attention-horse. The only rule (which is really more like a "guideline"--there are no rules in music) is that your description of happenings must be kept succinct.

To begin: I drove into town (fifty miles each way) today to rent a cello outfit. It was supposed to include a new 4/4 student's cello, bow, rosin, and case. When I got home and opened the case, however, there was everything but the bow. I am now drowning my sorrows (and embarrassment) with Merlot, Tchaikovsky, and Camembert.
 
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Half of it. One half was an "academic dispute" I got into, that's all I'll say. The other half was social I guess, but more long the lines of well... being pursued currently. :D
 
#1,508 ·
Everyone loves Kopachris that's why we post. :kiss:

My friends and I went out for scented candles and I ended up spending €800 (damn Diptyque). By the time we got back to the car I was in "Oh L'enfer what have you done mode" I told my other half but I'm not sure if I'm in trouble or not yet I shall have to wait until bed time to find out. :eek::eek:

I won't be buying CDs for a while... :rolleyes:
 
#1,502 ·
Its even funnier if you are Finnish!
( Its on English)

 
#1,504 ·
100?!?!? Why don't you just use Skype?
 
#1,505 ·
Bought new headphones(headphones which isolate external haze) today, not because old ones were broken. I Bought them because i just hate it when i try to listen to music(when i am not home) and i hear cars etc,i wasn't able to concentrate to music properly. Also i bought the best of J.S bach Naxsos cd .
 
#1,515 ·
I am now officially an employee of my School of Music. :)

As in, I will be getting a little salary this semester (and actually for the rest of my semesters at my University) for playing in the Lab Orchestra, which is the Grad Conductors' coaching class. It's non-credit for the musicians, thus we are paid a small bit each session. :)
 
#1,516 ·
Congratulations! It must feel great to earn money by doing something you love, even if its a small amount!
 
#1,522 ·
A friend of mine told me that I should read an amazing manga called Aki-Sora. I've read quite a bit of it now and all I can say is GOSH! It is rather dull, but the interesting parts are certainly very interesting. So that has been my evening for the last two days.
Really? How so? :devil:

In other news, check out the "Did You Know" portion of the Wikipedia Main Page. You'll see a name you all should recognize. :)
 
#1,524 ·
He writes about it somewhere on his website or blog. From what I remember he wanted a bone for the Cortège & Danse Macabre, but decided that, besides the more obvious objection, a human bone would be too darn quiet. He then went to a museum to see what different types of bones sound like.

The elephant bone was a little too hefty, so he had to settle for the giraffe.
 
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I just got back from a concert. A piano quintet played the Bach A major concerto, Bach F minor concerto (both somehow with a piano quintet), Franck quintet, and Dvorak A major. The program did not have the individual movements listed.

So I started clapping (all by myself) after the third movement of the Dvorak. Apparently there are four movements...:eek:
 
#1,535 ·
I was in the theater a few days ago. My last time there was about 2 years ago, and it was a mono performance which left a very good impression on me. This time it wasn't a mono performance. Based on Gogol's "The Government Inspector", the story was set in a small village in the era of the Russian empire. An inspector is supposed to visit the village soon, and everybody loses their mind because of that. Because of their exaggerated view of the state's workers they mistake a passing by man to be the inspector and that's basically the joke they go on with.

The story in itself is not bad, it mocks the villagers for their exaggerated view of the state, and it does have some funny moments. But the production was horrid. All the actors seem to have been told that they should should always shout, put on frills (if that's the right expression) and tell stupid jokes (there was a scene that lasted about 10 minutes, where the main character acted being drunk. Extremely funny.). It was supposed to be a comic tragedy, but everything there was pure tragedy. I was hoping that at least one character's mind would be sober, but I was expecting too much. I was hoping for a "right" ending, where the character pretending to be the inspector would reach his conscience, realize what he was doing wasn't right. Even laughing seemed to be wrong, since you realize that all the characters are in some way deluded, and the ending is going to be tragic.

And also it seems to be a quite complicated subject to mock. Yes, villagers these times held an exaggerated view of the state, but I believe it wasn't for no reason. They themselves didn't have the funds to maintain their institutions in good shape since the state didn't care much about the province, so there must have been a fear when inspectors came to visit. Telling the inspector that there isn't enough money (and basically arguing against the state) might have had dreadful consequences.
 
#1,537 ·
I hope that you will be ok! I don't want to say anything else because i don't know the exact situation and because of that i could accidentally say something stupid.
 
#1,541 ·
Once a week i buy a lottery ticket and i won 8€ this week! ( I buy 1 row in a week (( you have to choose 7 numbers out of 40))
I got 4 numbers correct. the prize for a row is 1€.
 
#1,544 · (Edited)
I want to emigrate ):

I'm getting a bit tired of the place where I live, the place where I study, the 2 hours of transportation every day and so on.

Good luck with your moving.




It's strange but when I'm at the conservatory I can work ten hours a day and when I'm at home I can't get myself to work. I wonder if there are a lot of persons in this situation. I don't like home for this reason ; I feel like it's a mediocre, debelitating (too much comfort) and useless place (too big, too expensive, too much distractions, etc.).
I think I'd be a monk if I were religious.
 
#1,554 ·
It's strange but when I'm at the conservatory I can work ten hours a day and when I'm at home I can't get myself to work. I wonder if there are a lot of persons in this situation. I don't like home for this reason ; I feel like it's a mediocre, debelitating (too much comfort) and useless place (too big, too expensive, too much distractions, etc.).
I think I'd be a monk if I were religious.
Indeed there are, count me! At home I'm a miserable lazy slob and that's why I'm always on TC these days, I'm AT HOME...
 
#1,562 ·
So, I've been part of a South Florida acoustic duo named The Oklahoma Boys for a dozen years or so and just now I am spending my first few hours in this beautiful state. I made sure to bring my Heat t-shirts as I'm in OKC and I'm sure their loss is still nice and fresh in their minds. Looking forward to a good steak and a great ale! No classical this week; I'm embracing my country side.
 
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