DISCUSSION THREAD March 2020 75-Word Challenge

[Luiglin]

Congrats @Daysman.

Thanks for the mentions folks. Tried to do something a bit different, maybe I should have gone with the Dark Lord and the circus werewolves.

 

[scarpelius]

Congratulation @Daysman .

 

[Daysman]

Slightly stunned… thanks everyone!

Left things very late this month but I did manage to vote…

My top 5 and my vote:

• @Victoria Silverwolf
• @Simbelmynë (vote)
• @Teresa Edgerton
• @Ashleyne
• @BigJ

Thanks to @elvet , @Marvin , @Luiglin , @Hugh , @M. Robert Gibson , @Guttersnipe & @Teresa Edgerton for your votes, to @Cat's Cradle , @Parson & @nixie for your consideration, and to @BT Jones , @Parson & @Victoria Silverwolf for your reviews.

My phone says it's Sunday — have a good one!

 

[Elckerlyc]

Well done @Daysman!

 

[nixie]

Congratulations @Daysman.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

Congratulations, Daysman! It's a very fine story.

Many thanks for the late listings to chrispenycate, Simbelmynë and Teresa Edgerton.

 

[Abernovo]

Well done, and congratulations, @Daysman. Looking forward to seeing your choice for the next challenge.

 

[Hugh]

Congratulations @Daysman! Such a wonderful story!

And many many thanks for some more listings, particularly to @Teresa Edgerton for her close second.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Congratulations Daysman!

(Have to quickly say a stunned and grateful thanks to @Ursa major for the vote, it was not my original story - obviously - because the original had dinosaurs in it)

 

[elvet]

Congrats Daysman!!

Thank you for your listing, @Teresa Edgerton . Always an honour to be mentioned by the setter of the challenge.

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Well done @Daysman I always get a smug feeling when I vote for the winner. Proves I know class when I see it

And a big thank you to @Vince W and @Artoriarius for the votes

And thanks for all the mentions

And thanks for all the entries everyone

 

[mosaix]

Thanks to @Victoria Silverwolf, @nixie, @Marvin, @Hugh, @M. Robert Gibson, @Vaz, @Parson, @elvet, @Cat's Cradle, @chrispenycate, @LittleStar, @Teresa Edgerton and @StilLearning for the mentions / short lists. That's 13! A record for me I'm sure.

And thanks again to @scarpelius for the vote.

 

[nixie]

You being greedy @mosaix? Haven't you got most wins

 

[Ursa major]

because the original had dinosaurs in it

This mention of its backstory makes your entry even more poignant.

 

[Ursa major]

To save people even a mimimum of DuckDuckGoing (or even Googling), my story is about the (in the story, magically conscious) main theme of Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2 (it's Searle** catalogue number being S.125).

I was a bit worried that I'd got the timing wrong, i.e. that the march-like treatment of the theme was not 15 minutes into the work. (As usual, I was writing the story at the last minute -- I'd only got the basic idea on the 22nd -- so I had no time to check.) As it happens, the first version*** I found online (I've no way of linking to the various version of the piece I have on CD) proved me -- well, the narrator -- more or less correct.

Speaking of the narrator.... Not being the one being transformed ("mangled"), I strongly disagree with the Main Theme: I like themes to appear in various guises in a piece... so not as Leitmotifs were once described: as there to help those listening to the (Wagner) opera who have lost track of what's (meant to have been) going on. I therefore neither damn Liszt nor the technique of the transformation of themes****.


** - There are a number of different cataloguing schemes for Liszt's vast output, but the most commonly referenced one (for recorded performances) is that devised by the English composer, Humphrey Searle (1915-1982).

*** - I found this only yesterday evening. The sound on the YouTube video is, on a mercifully very few occasions, not always of the best quality -- there are a few seconds of what sound like distortion -- but this may be have been a problem with my laptop. The picture is fine.

**** - This is also known (though not commonly) as the metamorphosis of themes, the phrase that first led me to the concept of my story.

 

[mosaix]

You being greedy @mosaix? Haven't you got most wins

I hope your not misunderstanding "A record for me I'm sure.", Nixie.

What I meant was "I don't think I've had that many mentions before."

 

[Vaz]

Grats! Daysman!


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[nixie]

I hope your not misunderstanding "A record for me I'm sure.", Nixie.

What I meant was "I don't think I've had that many mentions before."

Sorry mosaix, was trying to make a joke

 

[mosaix]

Sorry mosaix, was trying to make a joke

Thanks, Nixie.

BTW, I've noticed that my spelling deteriorates dramatically when I post using my smartphone.

 

[Elckerlyc]

Two votes (@StilLearning, @TheDustyZebra) and a mention (@Ursa major) on the last voting-day!
I feared my story faced an inglorious end after a single mention (@BT Jones) on the very first day. Thank you all.