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julianne dorny ([info]piano) wrote,
@ 2008-04-13 23:12:00


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Every year, it gets a bit harder to use the portkey from the Irish Ministry to come to England, and then to step on the train. Because I be in so deep now, I'll never get my life ba I came in fourth in the Chopin concerto competition in London, which was incredibly disappointing, considering that I won it when I was ten, but I did place second in the Liszt recitals, which, given that I had to teach myself the Second Rhapsody, that had been a nice result, yeah? Though it's hard to lie, to lie and lie and all I seem to do is lie, about what I'm up to during the school year. It makes it harder. To step on the train.

God, I hate it here.


I need to speak to the Headmistress about switching the transfiguration of my piano from a Steinway to a Baldwin; I played on the most magnificent Baldwin in Prague, I nearly felt compelled to hug it after I played upon it each time. I wonder how that will alter the spell?


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[info]lonqbottom
2008-04-14 05:54 am UTC (link)
Good job, Julianne! Coming in fourth is nothing to feel upset about. Second place is also brilliant, so congratulations on that!

What is the difference between the two?

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[info]piano
2008-04-14 02:00 pm UTC (link)
Fourth is rubbish, actually, I don't think I've been so humiliated before. But what did I expect, picking up an etude like that. Oh well.

Chopin and Lizst are two piano composers - brilliant, brilliant musicians. So one competition, you had to play a work by Chopin, the other Liszt. Many competitions are open to composer, it just depends. I love both of them though, I think they are wicked gorgeous pieces.

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[info]lonqbottom
2008-04-15 01:20 am UTC (link)
You should not feel humiliated. It's still an accomplishment!

Oh, I see!

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[info]piano
2008-04-15 01:34 am UTC (link)
That's very kind of you to say, Neville. Thank you. Still's bollo

Liszt and Chopin, they're only the tip of the iceberg. Grieg, Tschaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Solgji, Beethoven - oh, they are all so wonderful!

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[info]cornerfied
2008-04-14 05:59 am UTC (link)
You must be the little talented one, yeah? I could never figure out the piano.

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[info]piano
2008-04-14 02:01 pm UTC (link)
Little talented one? You must be mistaken.

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[info]cornerfied
2008-04-15 01:01 am UTC (link)
Me, mistaken? No, that never happens.

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[info]piano
2008-04-15 01:03 am UTC (link)
And it just did. First time for everything.

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[info]cornerfied
2008-04-15 01:08 am UTC (link)
Don't make me cry.

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[info]piano
2008-04-15 01:26 am UTC (link)
I'll owl you a hankie.

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[info]cornerfied
2008-04-15 01:43 am UTC (link)
Will it be pink?

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[info]piano
2008-04-15 01:51 am UTC (link)
Would you like it to be?

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[info]condign
2008-04-14 07:02 am UTC (link)
The wizarding world seems to be a boiling pit of lies...I've decided.

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[info]piano
2008-04-14 02:02 pm UTC (link)
There be entire offices in the Ministry devoted to keeping wizards secret from real people Muggles. A whole government, based on the object of maintaining a lie.

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[info]condign
2008-04-14 06:05 pm UTC (link)
But, I suppose it's for a good cause. I mean - realistically they do it for a reason. It's just a real pain in the arse when you have to play the part of political stitching's.

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[info]piano
2008-04-14 06:34 pm UTC (link)
I know, I know. My father works for the Ministry in Dublin, and he's told me that there's no way for our worlds to exist but - it just - part of his job is to modify Muggle minds to make sure they don't know we exist. And then I - well, it's just hard to reconcile at times all the time.

Political stitchings? Trying to hold something together?

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[info]condign
2008-04-14 10:19 pm UTC (link)
I meant political stitching's as a term used in the case of having to keep both sides happy through lies. But, that might just be the muggleborn stand point of it all. Either way it's all political. Muggles don't want to know and wizards are perfectly happy not telling them. The lies, unspoken truths, and altered memories hold the structure of both societies together in the end.

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[info]piano
2008-04-14 10:48 pm UTC (link)
I've never heard that expression before Irish ignorance, I'll bet - I like that. Still, under all of the politics whether they be necessary or not, are people who are getting ripped up from all of the stitches that we be making to keep the secrecy alive. Don't the saying be that politics be ugly business for a reason?

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[info]condign
2008-04-14 11:32 pm UTC (link)
That is in fact the saying. Politics is ugly business and always has been. But humanity can't survive without it. Brainwashing the masses into conformity is how we've worked for centuries. Unfortunately, that brainwashing has limited the tolerance for things that are different in both social structures be them wizarding or muggle.

I suppose we'll just have to suck it up and accept that that's how it is, huh?

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[info]piano
2008-04-15 12:05 am UTC (link)
Conformity, and then the victors write the history that we use to convinces the masses to continue on the same path that has been walked by the generations before. Ignore those that stray off the beaten path, woe betide those who follow the different drummer and value the good of the few over the good of the many.

Clearly, I ate Cynical-Os for breakfast. My apologies. I just hate co Why, didn't you know? Sucking it up is my middle name. Ginger Lady Julianne Sucking It Up Dorny. Tis a family name, passed down for generations.

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[info]macmillan
2008-04-14 07:32 am UTC (link)
It should be fine. Spells like that tend to work, but only when the witch or wizard is doing it properly. I do hope the Headmistress knows what she is doing.

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[info]piano
2008-04-14 02:03 pm UTC (link)
I would imagine the Headmistress can perform a spell that a seventh year can, given that she's been teaching for decades and is the Headmistress.

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[info]sharpen
2008-04-14 08:50 am UTC (link)
You must be really, really fantastic!

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[info]piano
2008-04-14 02:04 pm UTC (link)
The fourth and second most fantastic, respectively, which I think translates to 'pile of shite,' just abouts.

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[info]piano
2008-04-14 06:35 pm UTC (link)
Perhaps. I need to do better, though, turn my focus to summer competitions.

How was your holiday?

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[info]emma
2008-04-24 12:11 am UTC (link)
Congratulations on placing fourth.

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[info]piano
2008-04-24 12:13 am UTC (link)
Thank you. Hmm.

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