Eclectic entry... this and that...
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wiseheartOkay, I'm back for the moment, although only temporarily. The next weeks promise to be totally crazy again. Especially choir-wise.
On March 5, we've been invited by the local administration to sing on the opening feast of this year's teachers' workshop for the 11th district of Budapest. That wouldn't be that bad, as we're singing three folklore pieces we supposedly know already. Whether we really know them well enough is another pair of boots entirely. Two of them sucked spectaculary on our latest concert in November, and we haven't done much about them since, because we're preparing ourselves for the international choir festival in BAd Ischl, Austria, in early May.
On March 8, we're about to give a short independent concern - in the National Gallery, which is situated in the Royal Palace district. o_O We're all shitting our pants about that one. A spectacular failure on a location like that would be the blamage of the century. We're supposed to sing 9 or 10 pieces, most of them the "supposedly known" category, but we've seen how well that's worked before - NOT!
Also, as I said, there's the Bad Ischl festival in two months' time. There we have to bring 6 pieces, 5 of which are brand new, beautiful but insanely complicated. So we have additional rehearsals every other day, and are busily panicking. We've just put together the Mendelssohn psalm, and that's the easiest of all. At least we have much pleasure with that one.
The two Hungarian folk songs, all sung in four or six voices, respectively, are really hard to learn. The rhythm is very unusual, and the piano parts are practically independent melodies, so they don't help a bit. My personal problem is that the contralto part, too, is in a height that would be more suited for mezzosopranos than contraltos; it's killing my throat and my vocal cords.
And then there is a German folkloristic piece which I haven't even seen yet, and an Ave Maria by Head, which is ethereally beautiful, but very, very complicated. Gosh, I really don't know how we're going to manage all this in two months. After all, we all have full-time jobs in that school, too. Plus, due to the insane weather, half the people are always ill - and always another percentage, which doesn't make it exactly easy.
And, as if I hadn't enough unfinished fanfic pieces, I've been strongly inspired to write original sci-fi lately. The "Windswept" universe is bothering me to be created every time I ride the bus, as that's the only time when my mind isn't occupied with something else.
Really - what sense would it have to write original sci-fi? No-one'd be reading it anyway. Only a handful of people are interested in my sci-fi fanfics, as I tend to write complex plots, and people just get bored with the twist. Honestly, who would waste their times in original sci-fi, where not even the familiar charcters would attract them?
In the meantime, an ungodly amount of highly interesting DVDs are waiting for being finally watched, and I just can't find the time. :(
On March 5, we've been invited by the local administration to sing on the opening feast of this year's teachers' workshop for the 11th district of Budapest. That wouldn't be that bad, as we're singing three folklore pieces we supposedly know already. Whether we really know them well enough is another pair of boots entirely. Two of them sucked spectaculary on our latest concert in November, and we haven't done much about them since, because we're preparing ourselves for the international choir festival in BAd Ischl, Austria, in early May.
On March 8, we're about to give a short independent concern - in the National Gallery, which is situated in the Royal Palace district. o_O We're all shitting our pants about that one. A spectacular failure on a location like that would be the blamage of the century. We're supposed to sing 9 or 10 pieces, most of them the "supposedly known" category, but we've seen how well that's worked before - NOT!
Also, as I said, there's the Bad Ischl festival in two months' time. There we have to bring 6 pieces, 5 of which are brand new, beautiful but insanely complicated. So we have additional rehearsals every other day, and are busily panicking. We've just put together the Mendelssohn psalm, and that's the easiest of all. At least we have much pleasure with that one.
The two Hungarian folk songs, all sung in four or six voices, respectively, are really hard to learn. The rhythm is very unusual, and the piano parts are practically independent melodies, so they don't help a bit. My personal problem is that the contralto part, too, is in a height that would be more suited for mezzosopranos than contraltos; it's killing my throat and my vocal cords.
And then there is a German folkloristic piece which I haven't even seen yet, and an Ave Maria by Head, which is ethereally beautiful, but very, very complicated. Gosh, I really don't know how we're going to manage all this in two months. After all, we all have full-time jobs in that school, too. Plus, due to the insane weather, half the people are always ill - and always another percentage, which doesn't make it exactly easy.
And, as if I hadn't enough unfinished fanfic pieces, I've been strongly inspired to write original sci-fi lately. The "Windswept" universe is bothering me to be created every time I ride the bus, as that's the only time when my mind isn't occupied with something else.
Really - what sense would it have to write original sci-fi? No-one'd be reading it anyway. Only a handful of people are interested in my sci-fi fanfics, as I tend to write complex plots, and people just get bored with the twist. Honestly, who would waste their times in original sci-fi, where not even the familiar charcters would attract them?
In the meantime, an ungodly amount of highly interesting DVDs are waiting for being finally watched, and I just can't find the time. :(
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Re: Winswept outline, Part 3
Date: 2009-02-26 09:37 pm (UTC)Re: Winswept outline, Part 3
Date: 2009-02-26 10:22 pm (UTC)I'd be happy to discuss the possibilities with you - it always helps me to get new ideas. This whole concept is still way too vague to start the actual writing right now.
To answer your questions:
1) The Earth-children have helped the interbreeding with the Furies via genetic manipulation, because they thought it would help them adapt better to the alien biotop of the planet.
2) With the Kraken, it's rather an either them or us question. Ocean life has just begun to spread onto the southern continent, where the humans used to live (or still live in small numbers), so there would be a bitter fight for territory. Some of the Earth-children are for making contact with ocean-bound life, but the Kraken are not very cooperative, either. They are intelligent, yes, but in a fairly rudimentary manner.
3) Yes, eradicatin the Kraken would be genocide. In my personal opinion, the humans would better abandon the planet, pick up their toys and find a better place. Unfortunately, neither group is willing to do just that. Plus, that would render the planet-dwellers to Kraken food, so...