I have two weeks until my concert at my own graduation, where I’ll be playing Chopin’s impromptu op. 36. I started practicing the piece under three months ago and it isn’t even nearly ready, so I will have a painful two weeks ahead of me.
So how did/is it going??
Thanks for reminding me that I made this post :D I have a bit under a week left before the concert and I have taken two videos of me playing the piece. I’ll upload them when I’ve found a good video editing app and I’ve cut the videos so that they aren’t too long.
It’s going surprisingly well. I have improved a lot even though it’s only been a week and I think I won’t mess up too bad at the concert. There is still a lot of work to be done, especially the right hand runs are difficult and the left hand march-style thing too.
I believe jn you yes definitely upload a video when you feel up to it!
I don’t see a lot of musicians in the dark academia tags very often, so I thought I’d make a tag yourself for dark academia musicians! (I’m currently a music major myself.)
punk - this guitar kills fascists: combat boots and leather jackets, thinking of seriously taking drugs for the altered mental state, abrasive but extremely sensitive at heart, electric guitar distortions, yelling at bandmates, undercuts and unusual hair colours, staying up till 3 working feverishly on a particular riff.
classical instrumentalists and the symphony: concert formal blacks, having at least 10 pieces running concurrently in your head, very social despite practicing alone for alarming lengths of time, the oboe’s piercing A to tune the orchestra before a concert, messy annotations on scores, nitpicking details, muscle aches from too much practice, precision, black coffee and thin fingers.
glitz, glamour and operas: elaborate period costumes, thinking about the next party where you can drink and yell without sacrificing your voice, much more calculative than you seem, getting into character and actually crying on stage, memorising lines in a foreign tongue that sounds absolutely divine, heavy stage makeup, perfumes, dark red nail polish and blood red lips.
historical performance: dishevelled musty cardigans, being excited to play on some of the oldest instruments that exist, obsessively protective over your collection of old parchment and facsimile scores, unusual sounds of a period instrument, either gentle or unnervingly intense, sleepy eyes and sharp ears, vintage.
the science of musicology: shirts with wild colourful prints, always hungering for more insight into a particular musical culture that you are researching, sentimental, learning a language just to immerse in the musical culture better, bright colours, specific tastes in everything, collecting plane tickets, piles upon piles of readings.
researcher-analyst-inventor: linen clothing stained with coffee, thinking in such abstract terms even you cannot decipher your own thoughts, always always always preoccupied with new ways to approach sound, paying attention to silence, hunching over a computer fiddling with this and that, bleeding edge musical theory, software and coding, tea gone cold.
music management - business, babey: sharp business suits, torn between profit and musicality, jack of all trades and master of none, can play maybe 3 instruments, good with numbers, mechanical pencils, cold-blooded and efficient, networking, the clean lines of a piano, always out of breath from running from meetings, sarcasm concealing a caring soul.
composer, creator, writer: three-day old sweaters, ink stains and pencil smears, haunting melodies in the brain, scrambling to write write write before they escape you, messy handwriting, messy hair, drafts upon drafts of unfinished work, trembling fingers, energy drinks, the buzz of hearing your own work being performed.
