The Diary of Maria and Elynnor

Chapter 8 - Maria

Reginald Feinn has worked for Elynnor before, so it is understandable that he may have some good things to say about her. But for him to keep on encouraging me to accept her as a business partner since the very day I hired him is absolutely PREPOSTEROUS! Since he officially became part of my crew, Feinn has talked non-stop about how beneficial it can be to team up, business and music-wise, with someone as totally different from me as Elynnor. It is as a good an idea as asking a country singer to play the fiddle in a (c)rap song! Elynnor and I simply do NOT go together despite pursuing more or less the same career, and Feinn here just doesn’t seem to understand that!

However, I have no intention of laying him off for his ridiculous words because the HOH is coming close to dire straits now and I need all the assistance I can get. The German Annual Classical/ Orchestral Competition is coming soon. They’ve announced it to take place in my HOH as the official location. It will be my last shot at doing Erich and the Hubert name justice. If I do not win and get the prize money (of at least 50000 DM!) and recognition that this business seriously needs, then it would be the end. Of everything. Full stop.

Maria.

Feinn just told me the most amusing joke ever today. If I had wanted to hire a clown to perform in my Opera House, I would have advertised so. He told me the reason my orchestra members are “ditching” me is that they have been “brainwashed” by Elynnor’s modernism to join her orchestra and perform with her. That is like the employees of the American soft-drink brand Coca-Cola abandoning their values to work with their rival company, Pepsi. Feinn is such a god joker, if you ask me! Hilarious. But the part about my performers abandoning my business is not funny at all.

I am losing performers. I am losing talent. I am losing fans and I am losing the enthusiasm and power to stay afloat. I am so frustrated, that I literally exploded and got SO ANGRY at a recent group of performers who decided to let me go. They weren’t that many leaving performers, but I can foresee, in the worst case scenario, more and more of my talents encouraged to leave because of this group. It was, long story short, not in my power to tell them what to do with their lives and who to work for, so I merely let them go their separate ways - on condition that they never forget that they have worked for my husband and I and will continue to carry our good name with them for the rest of their lives.

Elynnor’s orchestra, in the meantime, is rapidly gaining in size and popularity. They have topped the chart numerous times and sold a large number of albums in merely a few months. That girl sure knows how to reach out to potential fans and talents of her age. Maybe I shall copy some of her publicity techniques to get back fans of my age. But that does not make me anything like her. I will never be anything like her. Ever.

As for Feinn, he tells me the best (or maybe the worst) jokes, He need not be my business advisor anymore, but I shall keep him as a backup performer, in both instruments and vocals. Lord knows my orchestra needs all the backup it can get.

Maria.