User:La Pianista/upg

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I'm a female student pianist from Ft. Worth, Texas, who discovered Wikipedia in 2007. My mainspace contributions mostly consist of music articles, battleship/battlecruiser/MilHist articles (mostly to help out my good friend user:the_ed17) and other miscellanea that seems unloved. I also help out, when I can, at WP:MOTD, a little fun project that caught my eye. In addition, I've assisted with P:CLM and am always available to help out newbies (if and when they ask for it - if you are new to Wikipedia, please drop by!). Though I'm not as active as I used to be, I haven't completely vanished from the face of the earth...since you really would have liked that.

Off Wikipedia, I enjoy the crazy 100-mile-per-hour life of a classical pianist. It's not for everyone, but I'm lucky to have found my niche early in life; besides, female musicians are far more attractive, no? :) If you ever have any questions about music, make my day by finding me at irc://irc.freenode.net (I'm la_pianista) or by emailing me. You won't regret it. Maybe.

Today's motto...

→ Now the storm begins to lower,
(Haste, the loom of hell prepare,)
Iron sleet of arrowy shower
Hurtles in the darkened air.

Glittering lances are the loom,
Where the dusky warp we strain,
Weaving many a soldier's doom,
Orkney's woe, and Randoer's bane.

Nominate a motto today!

Recordings

All recordings are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (and yes, they are my very own).

Presto from Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 10, No. 3 Live, November 2008
Prelude No. 10 from Rachmaninoff's Op. 32 Live, May 2010
Live, May 2010
Gnossienne No. 1 Live, November 2010
Gnossienne No. 2 Live, November 2010
Gnossienne No. 3 Live, November 2010
Gnossienne No. 4 Live, November 2010
Gnossienne No. 5 Live, November 2010
Gnossienne No. 6 Live, November 2010
Gnossienne No. 7 Live, November 2010

Other Pianista accounts in the Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia	Commons	Wikinews	Wikibooks	Wikisource	Wiktionary

Article work (what we're here for, no?)

Noted contributions

Keep in mind that all articles besides La Plus Que Lente, Alaska class cruiser, and Suite, Op. 14 (Bartók) have mostly been created/expanded by editors other than myself. I can only take credit for extensive copyediting and other gnoming.

To-do

Articles that I am/will be/should be expanding.

Suite, Op. 14 (Bartók) (high priority)
Japanese battleship Musashi (high priority)
Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. (Chopin) (high priority)
Portal:Classical music (medium priority)
La Plus Que Lente (medium priority)
Rivadavia class battleship (medium priority)
Faschingsschwank aus Wien (low priority)
Pour le piano (low priority)
Scherzo No. 3 (Chopin) (low priority)
Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms) (low priority)

Committed identity
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