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music education. It pays triple because you're faced off in it.
How could I refuse that? A rezad for music at triple pay? But I wondered. Was
it the beginning of a pass
of sorts? The senator had left me with that comment about my eyes.
I just stood there in the office, beside the ancient Stein way for a moment,
then finally pushed through the
reply. Mahmed was there.
"Luara! I hoped I'd get you before you started teaching. He was still wearing
that idiotically broad smile
spread across his dark face. "You did get my message.
"I did.
"You look dubious. Why?"
"I'm surprised, that's all. I met the senator at a soiree where I was the
hired help. I didn't think I'd made
the best impression.
"You always make a good impression. Then you'll do it?"
"I'll do it. How could I refuse? Besides, I'd been chased around the piano
before, and if that happened
to be what the senator had in mind, at least he was moving slowly.
"It's a little odd. Do you have the music for a song by Moore that you did at
that soiree? Or the
Schumann song?"
"I have both. This was getting stranger and stranger. "But neither is short
The Schumann is more than ten
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minutes.
"They want a short section, thirty seconds to a minute, of whatever you think
is the most beautiful as a
standalone.
"Out of context.
Mahmed shrugged. "It is at least triple pay, and you get residuals if they run
it through more than one
cycle. Oh& and can you wear what you have on? That's what you teach in, isn't
it?"
"Sometimes.
"Don't forget the music.
"I'll bring both. I wasn't happy about it, but I didn't feel I could turn the
job down. How could I fairly
excerpt either work? All I could do was look over the music after I proofed
and signed the course
descriptions Jorje had left and come up with something. And apologize silently
to whichever composer
I chose.
"Could you make it at noon?"
It was already past eleven, and I needed to look at whatever Jorje had. I was
also starving. "Could we
make it twelve-thirty? I can stay as long as you need, but noon would be
close&
He nodded. "That shouldn't be a problem.
As his image faded, some of what I'd heard finally sank in. The senator was
using my ideas in a
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commercial that he wanted me to sing? Why? He'd been interested, but not that
interested. And they
wanted my image, dressed in the way I was when I taught?
By the time I'd finished with a formulated sandwich in the student center and
waited for a shuttle, it was
almost eleven-forty. I had a seat on the near-empty shuttle. I marked out
three possible passages in the
Schumann. I really didn't want to do the Moore. Slightly after twelve, I left
the OldTech station and
began the fifteen-minute walk along the South Ridge pathway to the older
building that housed Crescent
Productions.
This time, I remembered the passcode without having to mentally rummage
through my linkfile. My steps
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slowed as I walked down the ramp to the lower level.
Mahmed was pacing just inside the door to Crescent. His smile was one of
relief, even as he thrust a
sheaf of hard copy at me. "You need to read this first. It's not a script.
I must have frowned, because Mahmed went on immediately. "It's really more of
an interview, plus a
short take of a song& I told you about that.
"That's a long rezad. An interview? Of me?
"We're doing three versions. Long& medium& short. His campaign guy is going to
place the long one as
an infoshop with the educational netslots. They'll also be running it as a
site-marker.
I shook my head. I had to say something. "That's going to help your
receipts.
"Yours, too, he pointed out. "Read through all this, and let me know when
you're ready.
I settled down in the worn gray synthleather armchair outside the studio box
and read.
The first part was the interview. They'd probably have some gorgeous male with
a resonance-enhanced
voice in the final version, but Mahmed would just read the questions to me,
and there were more than a
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music education. It pays triple because you're faced off in it.
How could I refuse that? A rezad for music at triple pay? But I wondered. Was
it the beginning of a pass
of sorts? The senator had left me with that comment about my eyes.
I just stood there in the office, beside the ancient Stein way for a moment,
then finally pushed through the
reply. Mahmed was there.
"Luara! I hoped I'd get you before you started teaching. He was still wearing
that idiotically broad smile
spread across his dark face. "You did get my message.
"I did.
"You look dubious. Why?"
"I'm surprised, that's all. I met the senator at a soiree where I was the
hired help. I didn't think I'd made
the best impression.
"You always make a good impression. Then you'll do it?"
"I'll do it. How could I refuse? Besides, I'd been chased around the piano
before, and if that happened
to be what the senator had in mind, at least he was moving slowly.
"It's a little odd. Do you have the music for a song by Moore that you did at
that soiree? Or the
Schumann song?"
"I have both. This was getting stranger and stranger. "But neither is short
The Schumann is more than ten
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minutes.
"They want a short section, thirty seconds to a minute, of whatever you think
is the most beautiful as a
standalone.
"Out of context.
Mahmed shrugged. "It is at least triple pay, and you get residuals if they run
it through more than one
cycle. Oh& and can you wear what you have on? That's what you teach in, isn't
it?"
"Sometimes.
"Don't forget the music.
"I'll bring both. I wasn't happy about it, but I didn't feel I could turn the
job down. How could I fairly
excerpt either work? All I could do was look over the music after I proofed
and signed the course
descriptions Jorje had left and come up with something. And apologize silently
to whichever composer
I chose.
"Could you make it at noon?"
It was already past eleven, and I needed to look at whatever Jorje had. I was
also starving. "Could we
make it twelve-thirty? I can stay as long as you need, but noon would be
close&
He nodded. "That shouldn't be a problem.
As his image faded, some of what I'd heard finally sank in. The senator was
using my ideas in a
Top
Page No 161
commercial that he wanted me to sing? Why? He'd been interested, but not that
interested. And they
wanted my image, dressed in the way I was when I taught?
By the time I'd finished with a formulated sandwich in the student center and
waited for a shuttle, it was
almost eleven-forty. I had a seat on the near-empty shuttle. I marked out
three possible passages in the
Schumann. I really didn't want to do the Moore. Slightly after twelve, I left
the OldTech station and
began the fifteen-minute walk along the South Ridge pathway to the older
building that housed Crescent
Productions.
This time, I remembered the passcode without having to mentally rummage
through my linkfile. My steps
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slowed as I walked down the ramp to the lower level.
Mahmed was pacing just inside the door to Crescent. His smile was one of
relief, even as he thrust a
sheaf of hard copy at me. "You need to read this first. It's not a script.
I must have frowned, because Mahmed went on immediately. "It's really more of
an interview, plus a
short take of a song& I told you about that.
"That's a long rezad. An interview? Of me?
"We're doing three versions. Long& medium& short. His campaign guy is going to
place the long one as
an infoshop with the educational netslots. They'll also be running it as a
site-marker.
I shook my head. I had to say something. "That's going to help your
receipts.
"Yours, too, he pointed out. "Read through all this, and let me know when
you're ready.
I settled down in the worn gray synthleather armchair outside the studio box
and read.
The first part was the interview. They'd probably have some gorgeous male with
a resonance-enhanced
voice in the final version, but Mahmed would just read the questions to me,
and there were more than a
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