if music be the food of love play on

[lotesse]

One of the most charming things about the 1995 Pride & Prejudice - which yes I'm watching AGAIN, shut up - is how badly the Bingley sisters play; my daddy would have rapped their knuckles, got out a metronome, and told them that rushing through the hard bits isn't a good disguise for not having really mastered them.

(and it does always tickle me, how little the repertoire for young ladies has changed; SO MANY of the pieces they play were ones that I struggled through in middle school.)