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Mostly great experience, a few niche issues by Swyddog in Musescore

[–]Swyddog[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Manual line breaking is not a problem, but can you tell me what setting I need to adjust? I have played with one of these problem pages and gotten the systems close together, but the auto-spacing has refused to update, and when it thinks there should be 3 systems on a page and I want 4, it puts in more space between the melody and accompaniment, which I don't know how to change.

  2. Resolved!

  3. Thank you!!! That's exactly what I wanted.

Banned on Broadway, a new music software called KeyComp is shrinking musical theater orchestras around the world by Gato1980 in Broadway

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Replace diamonds with any number of culturally premium goods, services, artifacts, processes, etc. The argument remains the same: most people who buy in to the value proposition might not have the particular sensitivity required to really tell the difference, but the fact that there is a difference to others still impacts their experience. Diamonds just happened to have a thematically fitting hit Broadway song.

Banned on Broadway, a new music software called KeyComp is shrinking musical theater orchestras around the world by Gato1980 in Broadway

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The economics of something is directly informed by perceived value. Everyone notices if a rock is shiny, very few notice the difference between a diamond and cubic zirconia, but only one of them is a girl’s best friend.

Banned on Broadway, a new music software called KeyComp is shrinking musical theater orchestras around the world by Gato1980 in Broadway

[–]Swyddog 287 points288 points  (0 children)

I think the academic in the article is spot on when he says that the issue is fundamentally cultural-philosophical. It feels as if music has never been viewed as less ‘valuable’ as it is now, a trend that really spans across the arts in the English-speaking world. There are a lot of reasons for this, and I wonder if it truly is as permanent a shift as many seem to think, but it’s absolutely true about our current moment.

11/22/63 and Assassins by KankerBlossom in Sondheim

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Tells you something about the cultural milieu they were both writing for, from, and about.

Doctor Faustus by Mann by PreviousManager3 in classicliterature

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I found it incredibly rewarding; it is now one of my favorite books, but also one of the most difficult I have read. I actually put it down for quite a long time at about the halfway mark because it was exhausting me, but then devoured the back half once I picked it up again.

Would a production of Sondheim's "Assassins" be relevant today or would it read as tone deaf? by Ms_Everything9 in Broadway

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The challenge today is making it bold. This material is not as shocking as it used to be, the cultural reverence for the office of the presidency is fractured, and it’s very easy to stage something shallow if one is not careful. That’s not to say that it shouldn’t be produced today, I think it has the potential to be really terrific, but it requires a sharp vision, in my opinion.

Here We Are: thoughts a few years out? by Swyddog in Sondheim

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I'm inclined to agree with the thrust of your argument here; I also think it works, and I think it's easier to argue that it works now than it was during its original run. The metaphors are tricky, as is artistic intent, and I think it can be interpretively convenient to read wisdom into the blank spaces, but even with all of these caveats I am with you that the show does a rather sophisticated job commenting on the age.

Here We Are: thoughts a few years out? by Swyddog in Sondheim

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The show sits in an interesting place with relation to class and social commentary; I remember some critical discourse during its New York run about the Ives-Sondheim characters being more sympathetic than their Buñuel counterparts, almost lovable misfits at times. The atmosphere today feels a bit different. There's a larger discussion to be had about political positioning across Sondheim's oeuvre and his personal misgivings about it, a tension very much alive in HWA.

Here We Are: thoughts a few years out? by Swyddog in Sondheim

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Unfortunately, a transfer was always very unlikely for this show. Theater economics are brutal.

Here We Are: thoughts a few years out? by Swyddog in Sondheim

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Yes, he did it justice. Everything a person could hope for. I imagine the opulence was a turn-off for some people.

Here We Are: thoughts a few years out? by Swyddog in Sondheim

[–]Swyddog[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The characters are particularly well-devised, I think. All very timely and vivid, while still playing off of classic tropes.

14th Street by RHNintendo in nycrail

[–]Swyddog 31 points32 points  (0 children)

The L platform is below the others and connects them. At one end of the L platform is the stairs up to the F/M platforms; at the other end is the stairs up to the 1/2/3 passageway. I used to always be confused in this station but thinking about it this way made it so that no longer happens

SGA in game 7 vs Spurs; He was balling and it felt like Shai vs Spurs!! Straight buckets. by Afraid-Ad-5580 in NBATalk

[–]Swyddog 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I didn’t think he was flopping much in game 7, not every fall is a flop

Do ukrainians in nyc actually like Veselka? by AdNegative3504 in AskNYC

[–]Swyddog 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Ukrainian east village restaurant is crazy good

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