> And, lo, suddenly there came forth from the cave many dragons; and when the children saw them, they cried out in great terror. Then Jesus [redacted the rest of this quote by popular request]
So yeah. What really happened in case you don't know just like I used to not know, somehow the Russians had collectively forgotten that there was no air in space.
So his suit inflated, like. Doubled in size. From the difference between the normal 1ATM pressure in the suit and the 0 ATM outside of it.
And the poor sod couldn't get back into the spacecraft through the airlock which was like the size of a cat door.
I don't remember what he had to do in the end, I'm guessing he eventually punctured the suit and let the air out or something.
I only recall it took him many minutes if not hours bumbling around up there all alone in the blackness, trying all kinds of things none of which worked.
From a quick glance neither the German nor the Dutch wiki say a word about any of that.
Or really about his space walk as such. Only mention it briefly in the introductory paragraph, but then talk about completely unrelated shit for the entire rest of the article.
The Russian wiki has lots of details. Apparently his misfortunes did not end with that. Upon returning to the ship, there was a leak of explosive gases or something so the tiniest spark from some electricity anywhere would have blown up the whole thing into pieces.
And once the crew got the air mix to stabilize, they proceeded, as intended, to undock the airlock from the ship. But unlike intended, that destabilized the spacecraft so much it started rotating at 18 rpm. And they could never get that to stop.
Really makes you not want to go to space all that much.
You can drown in a bowl of soup, or break your leg by standing up from a chair. Dafuq you even need the space for.
But yeah the initial issue with the suit that I mentioned, he didn't puncture it after all, but considerably reduced the oxygen pressure until he could fit back in through the door.
And then once inside he disregarded all standard procedure and took off his helmet before the airlock was fully sealed because he was just sweating buckets.
("Standard procedure", of course, being a misnomer rather. As that was the first space walk ever. So basically anything at all that he did was the standard at that point. He was the one who set it.)
Oh and then after all the troubles listed above, the autopilot for the re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere decided not to work. So they had to land it manually. All the way from outer space to wherever on Earth they eyeballed was a good place to land.
I am having trouble figuring out when to use the word, could.
For example, in the sentence "There is a possibility that person had hit my car". If I used "could have" instead of "had", I think it would be repetitive.
But in the sentence, "There is a possibility I could have done better". Withou...
@marcellothearcane Hot Licks beat you to it, apparently.
But yeah. "Why does word X change the meaning of sentence Y" is always a delightful question to read.
Every word always changes the meaning to whatever the meaning of that word is.
Like, that's what words are for.
If I replace *cat* with *dog*, it no longer means the same thing. If you replace *to* with *at*, it no longer mans the same thing. If we replace *she* with *they*, it no longer means the same thing.
When he finished the piece and went behind the stage before coming on again to bow to the audience, from where I was sitting I could clearly see a person behind the stage standing there waiting with a fresh pint of beer for the violinist.
Anyway, in Glasunov, there was that cadenza, and I don't know what the heck he did there and how he did it, but it sounded like three different instruments at once.
Two weeks ago I was talking with my teacher about the various pieces I had arranged previously. But not had shown her yet because of the bus strike here.
I don't have a printer at home so I have to go to the office to print out the sheet music. And because of the strike I had spent that day at home and printed out nothing.
So anyway, I brought with me a piano book that I had as a child, with some of said pieces in there, arranged for easy piano.
One was Tchaikovsky, that Prilepa and Milovzor duet that I have up on MS arranged for two strings, two winds, and a piano.
So anyway, she actually didn't know the piece, and I said, yeah just sight-read the first couple bars maybe you know it alright.
By which obviously I meant she should just play the melodic line.
@marcellothearcane well yes, fake it till you make it. They often talk about that. If you're sitting in an orchestra and haven't practiced and see the music for the first time during concert, you better be ready and willing to play them thirds on the G string the first time you see them.
Though by "finished" I really mean, no it's not for two violins yet as she requested. I did violin-viola-piano. Though almost all of the viola part can be played on a violin with no changes. There's just two or three places where it goes down to an F sharp. But I want to show her that first.
Well at one point I do go down an octave. Like, actually deviating from the original score. So yeah. That one I could simply reverse back to what Tchaikovsky actually wrote.
The others I don't even quite remember anymore. It's been an hour.
@marcellothearcane well that's what people say. He liked to include pastiches like this in his operas. Apropos of nothing. Just because he felt like it.
Like, this here is from Pique Dame. A dark and depressing story about gambling, debts, and bloody murder. Set in St. Petersburg.
But at the beginning of the second act, there's this intermezzo that has nothing to do with anything in the piece.
Called "the true feelings of a shepherdess" or something like that. With people all dressed up in baroque costumes, singing very Mozartean stuff like this.
Tchaikovsky is like God level of famous worldwide compared to that. At the same time and conversely, in Russia they have so many different composers that are all really great that he's just one among many.
Well from my experience most people who know of Sibelius think he's some guy from the Silicon Valley who founded a software company to drive MuseScore out of business.
But yeah like who else can I name before I cast stones at others. Kimmy Hakkola. And, um. That's about it really.
Not that that wouldn't be enough, mind. Sibelius and Hakkola alone can pull a cart the size of a country alright.
If you ever get a chance to see Kari Kriikku play live the Clarinet Concerto by Kimmo Hakola, drop everything and go. It will quite possibly be one of the most amazing things you'll have experienced in your entire life.
You can read a couple messages after that for a fuller picture. There's a link to the video, too.
But that's a full concerto so make room in your calendar for an hour or two.
These days I listen to it on Spotify a lot, on my commute to work and back.
The way to deal with panic is, ironically, to practice less. But make it more targeted. Identify one problem at a time, work on it until it's fixed. Sometimes that only takes five minutes. Sometimes five days. But you always make more progress faster overall.
@marcellothearcane but that's part of what I mean. By saying it will stay your problem forever. Because every concertmaster will have their own bowings and you have to be able to turn on a dime and adapt on a whim.
Sometimes midway through dress rehearsal before concert.
@marcellothearcane I love moving mine fast and using the whole bow. But I never do that unless I consciously force myself to. It makes for such a better sound. But if I'm not paying attention, I use like one inch of the hair in the middle.
And then I wonder why I sound like I'm stepping on an untuned cat.
But yeah. It gets better every day.
You just have to do something, anything at all. Just play three notes a day. That already is better than playing none.
@marcellothearcane I don't recall that one. I used to watch every video of theirs but then they started uploading like one a day and I stopped being able to keep up.
I will catch up occasionally by watching a couple in a row, but for the most part I just pick and choose and watch like one a week.
@marcellothearcane I cherry-picked some of those and they were fine. But yeah all the longer videos with the Reddit memes got a bit too old a bit too fast.
> If I could describe this piano piece in one word, it would be "fire." This piece is a fantasic emotional ride of passion and darkness, and it takes the listener on a wild adventure of expression. The groovy rhythms that make up this piece become more and more addictive through Vine's intentional use of repetition. This is an incredibly sonorous piece that explodes spontaneously like fireworks.