Today�s World Violin Day! As you know, I play harp, not violin. However, a violinist and his instrument figured prominently in my audiobook of FANNY HERSELF: A PASSIONATE INSTINCT�by Edna Ferber and in the music I chose to go...
Today�s World Violin Day! As you know, I play harp, not violin. However, a violinist and his instrument figured prominently in my audiobook of FANNY HERSELF: A PASSIONATE INSTINCT�by Edna Ferber and in the music I chose to go under the credits.
I started to write this quick story as a Twitter thread, but I strive to keep my original content on MY site and share it on social media.
On Tuesday 3 June 2014, I wrote in my journal:
The recording of FANNY HERSELF [by Edna Ferber] is done! Yay!
I had been thinking�of how to change the title to make the book different from the free edition�I want to retain the original title but add something to it to differentiate it [due to Kindle rules for publishing public domain books.]
The Audioblocks site [now Storyblocks.com] lets you search by instrument, mood, and time in addition to genre�I knew I wanted something with a violin solo since Fanny�s brother Theodore was a child prodigy violinist. She and her mother had to do without almost everything in order to pay for his studies overseas. He doesn�t even have a lot of lines in dialogue, yet you always know about Fanny�s brother.
I found a piece that sounds like a clock ticking and machinery before a violin solo of a contrasting tune emerges. It has a tension that suddenly resolves, just like the end of the book! I really liked it on the first listen and declared it perfect on the second one when Drew listened and liked it, too. The music was named �Passionate Instinct�.
And �Passionate Instinct� is now part of my ebook�s title � FANNY HERSELF: A PASSIONATE INSTINCT. Drew and I both think it sort of describes the book.
Not only did I write all of that in my journal, but I also wrote this 2014 article about finding and using M. Leone Bracker�s hand-drawn illustrations from 1917 in my ebook.
I looked at the illustrations this morning, and sure enough, I found one of Theodore playing violin for his teacher.
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You can hear the haunting violin music I selected for the credits below.
Opening credits (Note that book was in the public domain when I recorded it. I would now say �The text is in the public domain� instead of the details I gave about the original publication.)
Closing credits
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