baby girl's a queen

explosion9@gmail.com — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:18:59 GMT

out of character.
hello my name is Ama
my characters, so far, at fortissimo are Wolfe, Claire, Sergei, and Felix
other experience besides fortissimo, with links http://www.inksome.com/users/amigurumi

in character.
reincarnated character Alma Mahler

hello my name is Alma Moll
i teach Voical Performance
i am this many in years 37
i have been working at allegro school of music for this many years 7
before allegro, i was a wife and homemaker
i am at allegro because because you have no idea how boring being a stay at home wife is.
when i'm not teaching at allegro, i am probably traveling with my husband to his performances.

oo1. My husband is the director of the New York Philharmonic. His name is Gus and I love him very much. He travels often with the orchestra and so we are often apart. You know what they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

oo2. He and I were met and married while attending Oberlin, he for composition and I for voice. I minored in composition as well there, but I've really hardly used it.

oo3. Speaking of voice, if we are being technical (and this is Allegro, so why not?) I am a lyric coloratura soprano. I've performed as three Shakespearean females, despise trouser roles, and, yes, as a soprano that does make me a bit of a diva. I won't apologize.

oo4. I did go on to get graduate and doctoral degrees for my voice, although I did take my time working through them. I was married by then and Gus has always liked me at home.

oo5. One of the first arguments I remember he and I ever having was shortly before I applied to graduate schools. I was being childish and considering composition, and unwilling to back down even when Gus pointed out that I hardly had any experience in it and was likely to fail. I was livid at the time, naturally, but in the end we decided that he was very right. I attended Oberlin's graduate program and then Julliard's doctoral program, both for vocal performance.

oo6. I did take a two year break between Oberlin and Julliard, one year with pregnancy and then the next diagnosed with depression after I miscarried.

oo7. Gus and I tried again for a baby after I got my doctorate. I miscarried again and, again, spent about eighteen months unable to do anything, diagnosed again with depression.

oo8. After I was well again, Gus, who'd given up so many opportunities to stay home when I was sick, took the job in New York with the Philharmonic. They'd been after him for the longest time, and so he and I decided not to try for any more children, because if I were to fall ill again, he wouldn't be able to take care of me.

oo9. I was thirty by then, and even though Gus would've liked me to be his stay at home wife, the thought of being stuck in that house all day was so terrifying that I set about looking for a teaching job. Allegro offered and I accepted.

o10. I moved to Illinois to begin teaching, and Gus stayed in New York City with his orchestra. We're still married, of course, there's no need to messy things up with a divorce, but, well, perhaps the separation is good for us. We had been fighting so often.

o11. Music runs in my family, both my father and, after he died, my step-father were pianists and my first accompanists. My mother always said I'd marry a pianist, only so that I'd always have someone to accompany me. She was right.

o12. Which isn't to say that Gus has been my one and only. I did manage to have a torrent affair with an artist when I was a little younger. There's a nude portrait of me hanging in one of his galleries back in the city, but oh I'll never say which is me.

o13. If you're going to be taking voice lessons with me, you need to know the ground rules. I will not teach just anyone, you will be required to audition before I agree to take you on. My specialty is sopranos, naturally, but I've also been known to take on a promising alto or tenor. Bass singers are an abomination and I won't tolerate them. I also expect my students to dress for each lesson as if it were a performance, ladies this means skirts and heels, gentlemen I expect slacks and a tie. Break my rules three times and you earn the pleasure of finding another, lesser teacher, because I do not have time for people who don't take this seriously.

o14. I return to New York City and my Gus on every major school holiday, although to be perfectly honestly I'd rather not. We have the same tiring conversations and the same tiring arguments and I end up at the bottom of the same tiring bottle of wine every single time.

o15. I haven't told anyone quite yet, but I've started to work on an opera. Gus is right, of course, it's probably nothing good and I really don't have any experience with composing, but, well, as I've said. When I'm at the bottom of the same tiring bottle of wine, I feel like it's really something.

~!! I don't know what you've heard, and the Dean is a good intelligent man, but no I am not drowning any sorrows and I do not need to be back on Zoloft because I am just fine.

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how is your character like its composer? how do you plan to show this in your writing and further develop it? Like her counterpart, Alma's a little stuck in a marriage that's not working out. Her husband has commanded her to give up composing and she's living with it. They both are the subjects of nude paintings and they both are working on operas.

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baby girl's a queen