Setting: modern-day USA ( Read more... )

What song (if any) is traditionally played at graduations? (For example, in the US, it's Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D", aka "Land of Hope and Glory".) Or do they play the school song, or does it vary wildly from school to school.

If it matters, it's for the equivalent of secondary school (specifically, Hogwarts ( Read more... )

I already read most of the victorian tagged posts in this community and googled like crazy all possible word combinations without any luck whatsoever ( Read more... )

Hello little_details, you have been extremely helpful to me in the past, and now I have some (hopefully final!) questions for you about the novel I am writing. It's broadly set in Leningrad between the 1920s and 1940s, though I will be more specific in terms of timing in my individual questions. I have done a lot of research (internet-based and book-based) and ( Read more... )

My character is a transgender man (which means he was born with a female body, and thus a female singing voice). A lot of the focus of the story is on classical music, and I want to know how an ordinary female contralto voice could be used as a tenor. I know the ranges are very similar, but would he be able to sing a certain way and simply sound ( Read more... )

Hey all! I'm looking for a male classical singer active in England and Scotland in 1992. Not knowing much about the classical music scene twenty years ago, I'm really not sure where to even start looking.

Specifically, I need a baritone capable of handling Spohr's 6 Songs, Op. 154 and most especially Spohr's Erlkoenig. For those who have never ( Read more... )

Hi all, I am working on a novel (very nearly finished!) that is broadly about orchestral / chamber musicians in the USSR (mostly Leningrad) between the 1910s and the 1940s. I have a reasonably broad knowledge of classical music, but am not a musician myself. I need to decide on specific pieces that my characters play or work on at various points in ( Read more... )

Time: Current ( Read more... )

This is for the same fic that takes place in London in January 2007. The first question the place matters, but the time doesn't. The second one is very time dependent ( Read more... )

A twelve-year-old genius pianist (not really a prodigy, sorry) described as "a fine clinical player" gives up piano (to become a scientist) and doesn't touch it again until his mid-thirties. The very first time he puts hands to keys and tries to play something (which he remembers accurately), what happens? Is it humanly possible to do it as ( Read more... )