Happiness is a functional computer
I am very happy with the people at the mac store. They are so helpful and awesome :3 They showed me how to fix the start up snaffu - which would probably clear up any junk in the future. woo! And that store is way too tempting.... (but I just walked out with a laptop case, not the huge desktop imac with Final Cut Studio 2 and Logic Studio that I was drooling over looking at) I'll save that for later, when I have the money and can actually justify getting a wonderful new computer.
That will be about the same time that I get my next harp, I expect. *eyeroll*
Anyway, it's a little odd to be back at wardbrodt, working away. (and I say "working" in the dryest possible manner) My piano buddy finally went and saw Sweeney Todd - and loved it, just like I said - and was sightreading some of the music today on the piano, which was pretty cool. He also got made the manager of the piano department, which the inefficient management up top has been delaying for the last 6 months ever since the last manager deserted the ship (since it would mean paying him more money, oh noes).
Also... I've found out that they have the music for Sweeney Todd - though it's only the Broadway show right now. I'm not sure that they can really publish the movie score separately, since it is based on the musical. Oh well. The book doesn't have all of the songs - and I'm sure that they include whatever chorus parts were cut from the movie. Personally, I am glad that they cut any chorus work (with Sondheim's blessing) because that would have taken away from the mood that Tim Burton was creating - one that is intensely personal. Having a group of street folk suddenly break out into "Go Sweeney Go" (or whatever the "ballad of Sweeney Todd" is) wouldn't quite work.
Go me for knowing what a leitmotif is! I was reading about the music of ST and how Sondheim uses a ton of musical motives to represent characters (yes! I totally called it! Remember how I was being especially music-dorky and talking about how his theme - or at least the line -"and my Lucy lies in ashes"- was overlaying her "alms for a pitiful woman" melody when he finds her at the bottom of the chute....)
That will be about the same time that I get my next harp, I expect. *eyeroll*
Anyway, it's a little odd to be back at wardbrodt, working away. (and I say "working" in the dryest possible manner) My piano buddy finally went and saw Sweeney Todd - and loved it, just like I said - and was sightreading some of the music today on the piano, which was pretty cool. He also got made the manager of the piano department, which the inefficient management up top has been delaying for the last 6 months ever since the last manager deserted the ship (since it would mean paying him more money, oh noes).
Also... I've found out that they have the music for Sweeney Todd - though it's only the Broadway show right now. I'm not sure that they can really publish the movie score separately, since it is based on the musical. Oh well. The book doesn't have all of the songs - and I'm sure that they include whatever chorus parts were cut from the movie. Personally, I am glad that they cut any chorus work (with Sondheim's blessing) because that would have taken away from the mood that Tim Burton was creating - one that is intensely personal. Having a group of street folk suddenly break out into "Go Sweeney Go" (or whatever the "ballad of Sweeney Todd" is) wouldn't quite work.
Go me for knowing what a leitmotif is! I was reading about the music of ST and how Sondheim uses a ton of musical motives to represent characters (yes! I totally called it! Remember how I was being especially music-dorky and talking about how his theme - or at least the line -"and my Lucy lies in ashes"- was overlaying her "alms for a pitiful woman" melody when he finds her at the bottom of the chute....)