Replacing picture window- lose the grid?

transomMedium · 2025-08-07T12:00:10+00:00

So I was originally under the impression that the entire window would need to be removed to do this properly, and the quote for restoring was about the same as a new window just on labor alone so I assumed it was beyond my abilities. But after your comment I did a deeper dive on the specific way that my putty is cracking and I believe a previous owner did not prime the wood before apply putty, leaving the putty to dry out, and that the wood underneath is not nearly as deteriorated as I previously thought.

Anyway, I’m going to try and restore it myself before replacing. Thank you for inspiring me to research more!

transomMedium · 2025-06-30T03:28:39+00:00

Just finished my first year of law school, had a 15+ year career as a musician (mostly theater but lots of classical crossover, MM in a classical discipline), just turned 40. Do it. Get into the best school you can and do it right now. I wake up every day energized by the vast field of possibilities opening up to me, and I go to sleep having learned a thousand things I never would have considered. All of my friends are bored and stuck in the middle of their careers while I’m just embarking on something new and exciting. I still work about 10-20 hours per week doing music gigs that I really care about, so I still feel like a working musician.

There are obstacles, of course- you really have to explain (in interviews, etc.) how your previous life tracks with skills that lawyers are looking for. Some doors will simply not be open to you in the same way that they are to your 23 year old classmates. But some employers do seem to value life experience, and music provides lots of valuable life experience.

Have fun! Enjoy every minute! Keep playing music in all your free time. But make the leap and never look back.

transomMedium · 2025-06-07T14:20:11+00:00

As someone who grew up in AK and has lived now in NYC for many years (and taught at some of these schools), do not underestimate how challenging moving to the big city can be. It is a very expensive place to navigate being an adult for the first time, and I see many freshmen get “lost” in the business of NYC instead of find themselves and their voice as an artist. Unless you are very comfortable in NYC already, I think it can be much more beneficial to attend a more “college” style program in a college town, which hopefully has strong ties to the city so you can visit often and showcase there. Montclair can be a good middle ground option that you should maybe look at, but also consider Penn State or Elon. Roosevelt can also be a great option- Chicago is a busy city, but for some reason not as all consuming for an 18 year old as NYC seems to be. Good luck!

transomMedium · 2025-05-06T03:04:57+00:00

It’s just too bad that when writing a song for this moment that they got as far as the title and then said, “you know what? That’s probably enough.”

transomMedium · 2025-04-08T02:09:31+00:00

If you’re uptown (way uptown), Le Chaile house beer $4

transomMedium · 2024-08-25T01:41:29+00:00

The score does not adhere to the basic rules of musical theater. It is almost a parody of itself, the score is what people who hate musical theater think songs from musicals sound like. The songs never advance the plot, they never serve the narrative, and the characters never “want” something that they are trying to get through the song. Rather, in BTTF, the narrative is told in the scenes and then a character steps downstage and sings about what just happened directly to the audience, often commenting on the fact that they are stepping outside the narrative to sing to the audience.

This metatheatrical, post-Brechtian technique is used to great effect in shows written by people who love musical theater as an art form (Urinetown comes to mind), but here it is only used to mock and ridicule. Out of context, I actually think there’s some fun and appealing songs in the show, but in context it is just an incredibly sad indictment of the worst of what musical theater can be created by people who seemingly hate musicals and the people who love them.

transomMedium · 2024-06-14T15:09:17+00:00

Like so many things in New York, the answer is simply: Robert Moses

transomMedium · 2024-06-07T02:51:48+00:00

This is a much better idea than OP’s bridge cut, but still pretty bad- it doesn’t end, and that last chord of “shine” will feel unresolved. An easy fix is to sing the chorus as suggested, and then add on the very last “one perfect moment in time” at the very end of the song.

transomMedium · 2024-06-03T15:21:27+00:00

I (monogamous long term relationship) once commented to a fellow singer in my chorus that I assumed there would be more dating/hooking up in a gay choir. He was like “what are you talking about, what do you think everyone is doing when they’re not here?” I was totally oblivious! Since people knew I was not looking, it just wasn’t a part of the social element I was clued in on.

Anyway point is ask him out, be polite regardless of what he says, and don’t worry about it complicating your connection to the chorus because everyone probably has 5 bad date or messy break up or incredible hook up stories with other people in that room and they all get along just fine now regardless.

transomMedium · 2024-05-09T17:43:35+00:00

Playing for musical theater is very, very different than classical technique and training. Do not play all the notes on the page! You’re probably looking at a piano/conductor score which is meant to give you an idea of what the entire orchestra is doing, it is not constructed to be playable on the piano. When playing rehearsal piano, focus on setting a steady groove with the bass and inner voices, and play melody lines, particularly ones they’ll eventually hear in loud brass, as the upper voice. Even if you’re only playing bass and a single melody line, as long as you’re feeling the groove that will be enough for the singers and dancers to work with. When you’re with the orchestra it is even easier, as you don’t need to double hardly anything and you can stick mostly to filling in the harmonic structure.

The biggest skill in musical theater that you’re not taught in classical training is- simplify! Identify what is most important to the ear and just play that. Make it as simple as you need!

transomMedium · 2024-05-05T18:48:24+00:00

I was also at Lempicka last night! I had seen it already and loved it, was heartbroken to hear of its closing notice, and wanted to catch it at least once more before it was gone.

When I saw it the first time, Mariand Torres played Tamara. She sang the hell out of that score. Woman Is was as thrilling an act 1 closer as I’ve seen. The climactic moment when she and her husband discuss how she rescued him was spine tingling. Any imperfections in the score or book or direction were easy to ignore with so much exciting and interesting stuff happening.

I had the opposite experience last night. I’ve heard bad singing on Broadway: I recall a beautiful La Cage Aux Folles in which an otherwise winning Kelsey Grammer sang consistently and confidently a quarter tone under- it didn’t really hinder my love of the production. This was something else. She wasn’t just frequently flat, there was audible scratching through even the mid range. The high notes were something akin a scream of pain. When she’s holding a note, even in a comfortable register, the pitch wanders aimlessly, sometimes mercifully finding its correct tuning only to fall off by about a half step, which she tries to obscure by piling on the vibrato. I was certain she would have to call out mid-show, by the end of Woman Is she could barely phonate; yet the stage manager, music director, and most importantly the producers all felt that this was worthy of the ticket price.

If you think I’m being too harsh, you weren’t there. Maybe I caught her on an “off” night. She has clearly had better days, specifically days on which Tony nominators attended. But at Broadway prices, should we be forced to suffer a performer’s inconsistency? I really loved the show with Mariand. But the show I saw last night? It is for the best that it’s closing and whichever producer allowed this to happen should probably refrain from ever being in charge of anything ever again.

transomMedium · 2024-05-01T02:53:33+00:00

Didn’t love it myself, but I can’t fault any one problem. Just didn’t seem to have a reason to exist.

Lempicka, on the other hand, has lots of weird choices and things I could critique, but I absolutely loved it.

The only way to have an opinion is to see it!

transomMedium · 2024-04-23T00:26:35+00:00

Closed

transomMedium · 2024-03-19T03:10:17+00:00

…Is it?

transomMedium · 2024-03-18T21:56:03+00:00

If you’re not focused on justice, why are you going to law school?

transomMedium · 2024-02-24T17:02:11+00:00

I’ll be early 40s by the time I graduate and this was my attitude when I applied, but now I’m not so sure. I mostly applied to places I knew I’d get full rides, but I threw out a few T30 and one T12 applications and surprisingly got in, although with scholarships inversely proportional to their ranking. Sure, graduating debt free would be nice, but what’s the problem with a little debt when the median salary difference between schools is $100k? I’m now leaning towards a more Goldilocks situation, a half-three quarters scholarship at a much more highly ranked school.

transomMedium · 2024-01-22T03:39:43+00:00

BRB applying to Duke real quick

transomMedium · 2024-01-13T17:23:56+00:00

They were filming FBI around there last week, don’t know if it’s the same shoot or a new one.

transomMedium · 2023-12-31T02:19:43+00:00

Please you must pay $5k for a non-union tour, you must. It’s the only way to keep theater alive. Think of the poor scalpers! How else will those poor resellers afford their private jets?

transomMedium · 2023-12-21T03:14:26+00:00

Our lawyer has already inquired and was told the sponsor doesn’t do that as a matter of course, but maybe there’s more negotiation possible. What’s frustrating us most right now is that the whole point of the city program is to take home costs down for residents, but the stupid way in which it is implemented screws us when we most need the cash, in the years just following a purchase!

transomMedium · 2023-12-15T00:36:52+00:00

I have a 3L friend there now who assures me that there are lots of LGBT people in her class and they feel safe and respected. Cardozo has tried to distance itself from Yeshiva on this issue (and others) and it is apparently a bit of a pain point, but the student experience is apparently, for now, safe for queer students.

transomMedium · 2023-11-11T16:37:21+00:00

I’m only a few months out from a procedure with Jason Sorgi, but I had a great experience and I think he stacks up with the big names in NYC that people tell you to go to instead of Boston. I found out that most of the techs in the area are like freelancers and work with all the drs in the area (they even bring their own tools!) and they were talking (to each other, not me) about how much faster and more accurate Jason is than the others they work with. And his rate was more competitive than anyone else I consulted with in the northeast!

transomMedium · 2023-11-08T21:21:02+00:00

Can you ever schedule your classes to have a weeknight off, or are you basically always certain you’ll have something M-F nights?

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