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.)

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[staranise]

Oh gosh, that reminds me of my single most favourite bit from the Joe Wright P&P, which IIRC is Mary in a back hallway of Netherfield after she's been wrenched away from the piano at the ball; in anguish she says, "But I practiced all week!" and her dad hugs her.

I know that feel, kid.

[lotesse]

Poor Mary! I never played much around non-family people, because kids my age were learning showtunes and ragtime and somehow, like I said, I managed to end up with a c19th young lady's knowledge of the instrument, and none of them cared much for my Clementi.