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out of character.
hello my name is RACHAEL
my characters, so far, at fortissimo are ludwig, shosty, fanny, freddychopin, anthologist
other experience besides fortissimo, with links heeeeere.


in character.
béla bartók

hello my name is Bertie. Bertie Bartok. Like Bar-talk. Not Bar-toke. Not Bare-tok. Not Priscilla. Bartok. And that's Doctor to you, bitches. ...oh wait am I allowed to say that to students?
i teach applied piano lessons, Music Theory in the Modern and Postmodern Periods, Piano Literature I & II, Jazz and Rock n Roll.
i am this many in years twenty-four.
i have been working at allegro school of music for this many years HALF :D
before allegro, i was in school forever and ever. God, it was like it never ENDED.
i am at allegro because I want to show these kids who's boss. Seriously, they should just bow down to me. ....aaaahaha j/k everyone please don't hurt me.
when i'm not teaching at allegro, i am pimping. Uhhh, am I allowed to say that to kids? Oh shit.

one. I grew up in Illinois, kind of semi-close to where Allegro is. I didn't want to do music. Ever. The thought had never occurred to me to do music. I mean, why would I focus on classical music if I didn't really like it? I'd rather clashy things any day -- music-wise, at least. Like the Clash, or Panico, or Thom Yorke on crack. The more annoying, the better.
two. I never took piano lessons. That is, until I turned thirteen and discovered Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Seriously, it was all over then. My life goal was to play that on the piano before I died. I thought it was the best thing ever. So I started piano lessons, and my piano teacher was so uncool and didn't WANT me to play Bohemian Rhapsody. She put me on these Bach inventions and little sonatinas that were absolutely stupid.
three. My mom told me that I wasn't allowed to quit. I'd already quit soccer, football, little league, karate, and the list goes on and on and on and on. So I stuck with it, and a few years later, I found myself actually LIKING the piano. It was one of the weirdest discoveries of my life.
four. It never really occurred to me to do it in college, though. I was going to be forever a teenage socialite. Not until junior year of high school, when I realized that I had absolutely NOTHING going for me. Then I decided it was time to go for piano.
five. Piano really cramped my style a bit. I was practicing longer than an hour a day by then, and it cut a lot of things out, like going out on dates, partying, going to football games, rehearsing with my band, and stuff like that. It was really a bummer. So sometimes, I didn't practice. That got me into big trouble.
six. When it finally came down to going to college, I didn't get in at a lot of places. I ended up going to Cleveland State University because it was cheap and that was basically all that would take me. So I finally got my act together in college and went to graduate school at Manhattan School of Music.
seven. Manhattan taught me a fuckton, plain and simple. And not just in the school; in Manhattan itself, too. Every weekend, I partied. Every weekend, I had at least one girl in my bed. Every weekend was a haze.
eight. So I took the second job offer I could get -- at Allegro. I figured, hey, it's close to home, and I can easily enough get my own apartment so I'm just far enough away. It's not so bad.
nine. This is my first year at Allegro, and it's crazy because EVERYONE LIKES ME. I didn't think that I could be so popular here, too, but the guys are my biffles for realzies. And ladies, I see your wandering eyes during class.
ten. Sometimes I compose. People don't like it, but I compose. I've done a few compositions for the school orchestra, and I'm hoping to God that Director God of Music Department will let me conduct it and make them perform it. It's horribly clashy, but I LOVE it. It's okay, though, because the second movement is totally romantic-style. Like the compositions I wrote in college.
eleven. A lot of my music is based on nature. I hate saying, "It's loud here. It's soft here." I want my music to make a statement. I want it to actually sound like trees or the wind or the ocean.
twelve. Because of that, it turns into something passionate. And because of that, a lot of my music is also based on sex. That sometimes gets me in trouble.
thirteen. I, uh. Sometimes, I. Sometimes I look at the girls at Allegro and it confuses me because they're so close in age but really, teacher/student relationship is a NO. Sorry ladies. but DAMN some of you are fine. You'll just have to deal with me snogging one of the teachers. YOU HEAR THAT, ALMA??
fourteen. I like folk music. I mean, like, folk indie music. I like picking out the little quirks in the music because a) it makes me happy and b) it has SO MUCH MORE to it than a lot of other rock songs do. That's why I teach Jazz and Rock n Roll, which is a sort of new course at Allegro.
fifteen. I'm a Jew. That's right, kids, I'm going to join your little "Jew Squad" and P-I-M-P IT UP.

but if you promise not to tell. I have leukemia. People don't know about it here. The only one that knows about it here is Monsieur Directeur, and I've kindly asked him not to tell anyone else. No, I don't want to talk about it.

pb/picture mark ronson.
how is your character like its composer? how do you plan to show this in your writing and further develop it? Bartok's biggest downfall was his leukemia. Just like Bartok, Bert is an avid supporter of nature and of sex. Now, Bartok was never a party boy, but if he knew the thrills of a little thing called Radiohead and nicotine, he'd feel very differently. Bert is going to continue to be Party Boy, and he'll "accidentally-on-purpose flirt with the girls of Allegro because he "doesn't know any better." I think it's because he's trying to cover up his leukemia. He wants to hide it from himself.