http://www.anwyn.com/2007/12/27/happy-tenth-anniversary/ Sometime editor, all-the-time mother, delivering facts, reviews, commentary, and rants. Occasionally in that order. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:01:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/12/27/happy-tenth-anniversary/#comment-183505 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:44:41 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/12/27/happy-tenth-anniversary/#comment-183505 Fakery skills can be very useful. Wish I had a few myself when it comes to music. Or anything else! Fakery skills can be very useful. Wish I had a few myself when it comes to music. Or anything else!

]]> http://www.anwyn.com/2007/12/27/happy-tenth-anniversary/#comment-182570 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:53:21 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/12/27/happy-tenth-anniversary/#comment-182570 Oh dear, I should clarify. I can play the first part of the second movement of the Pathetique--the very slow part--quite well. The rest of the second movement I can play reasonably well. The rest of the Pathetique I've never so much as touched. :) I’m not much of a piano player and certainly not at all a disciplined one. I play a lot by ear and have some sight-reading/fakery skills I gained when I was choir-directing and accompanying my choirs myself. Oh dear, I should clarify. I can play the first part of the second movement of the Pathetique–the very slow part–quite well. The rest of the second movement I can play reasonably well. The rest of the Pathetique I’ve never so much as touched. :) I’m not much of a piano player and certainly not at all a disciplined one. I play a lot by ear and have some sight-reading/fakery skills I gained when I was choir-directing and accompanying my choirs myself.

]]> http://www.anwyn.com/2007/12/27/happy-tenth-anniversary/#comment-182568 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:51:36 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/12/27/happy-tenth-anniversary/#comment-182568 I am so impressed that you can play the "Pathetique." I knew you were musically gifted, but that's beyond gifted. (That's also disciplined.) Do you still play? I am so impressed that you can play the “Pathetique.” I knew you were musically gifted, but that’s beyond gifted. (That’s also disciplined.) Do you still play?

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