help on Octavia backstory

[Doc. Volt 2,561]

Hi everypony

 

I never wrote a fanfic but i would like to start with something simple, i would like to make my personal Octavia backstory basing my self on a French movie that i love... here's the main plot

 

A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra, known as "The Maestro", Andrey Violin, had had his career publicly broken by Supreme Soviet for defending Jewish pony musicians and is reduced to working as a mere janitor in the theatre where he once conducted, becoming an alcoholic in the process.

While cleaning his boss' office he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris to replace a concert of the Los Pegasus Philharmonic Orchestra that was canceled at the last minute. Andrey Violin comes up with a plan to reunite his old orchestra, composed of old Jewish and Gypsy pony musicians - who also have been reduced to making a living as movers or carriage drivers - to perform in Paris and complete a performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, which was interrupted 30 years earlier by former KGB Agent Red Comrade, who is enrolled by Andrey Violin in his scheme as the orchestra's manager and is actively and efficiently supporting Andrey Violin's plan, much to the dismay and suspicion of Aleksandr 'Sasha' Bass Clef (the orchestra's main cellist), because it turns out that Red Comrade has his own agenda for the Paris trip.

Red Comrade and Andrey Violin demand several conditions from the Châtelet, that they are forced to accept, since the concert with the Bolshoi is significantly less expensive; one of those conditions is that the solo violinist is Octavia Philarmonica, who famously has never played Tchaikovsky's concerto because she is afraid of it, but has long dreamt of playing it with the Bolshoi and particularly with Andrey Violin - whose fame outside of Russia has not diminished -; her agent, Brigitte de La Lovle, who is also Octavia's adoptive mother, is reluctant to allow that, because she is acquainted with Andrey Violin and his past, but Octavia insists and she has no option but to accept. The orchestra is also forced to accept the sponsorship of an openly mafia boss who likes to play the cello, despite the fact that he does so terribly and who is part of the orchestra.

Once in Paris, the entire orchestra disappears partying and raising money in other jobs such as carriage drivers, movers or translators. The unprofessionalism of the Russian musicians and Octavia's own impression that the performance serves as a means of catharsis for Andrey Violin, forces Octavia to call off her participation in the concert, but Sasha convinces her to come to the theater because the Concert holds the key to Octavia's past and her parents, whom she has never met, and whom she believes to be scientists who died during her infancy in the Alps. As it turns out, Andrey Violin and his wife Irina Note were the best friends of Leia Scherp and Yitzhak Drum, also Jewish musicians. Leia Scherp was an accomplished violinist and the soloist at the time of the interrupted concert thirty years before in Moscow. After the public humiliation they suffered under Red Comrade and the entire Supreme Soviet regime, the couple spoke openly against the government on Ever free Radio, an American radio station that was banned in the former USSR, and as a result were deported to Siberia, where they spent the rest of their lives. Leia Scherp, who was, as we learn, Octavia's mother, lost her mind and played the Tchaikovsky concert in her imagination every day for her husband until her death, which was followed by his six months later. Baby Octavia managed to escape with Brigitte de La Lovle, at the time the representative of a visiting French orchestra, hidden in a cello case at the behest of Irina Note, Andrey Violin and Sasha.

At the last moment, the entire orchestra, after receiving a Derpy message calling them to play in honor of Leia Scherp, appears at the Theatre despite the fact that not a single rehearsal has taken place. In the meantime, the real manager of the Bolshoi, who happened to be vacationing in Paris and learned about the concert by chance, appears at the theatre to prevent the performance, but he is intercepted by Red Comrade who locks him in a broom closet. The concert has a wobbly beginning due to the lack of rehearsals, but they all manage to reach Andrey Violin's ideal spontaneous harmony once Octavia mesmerizes everyone with her magnificent interpretation of the solo part, which she studied on her mother's annotated score. The concert is a huge success and Andrey Violin is able to restart his career as a conductor of the new " Andrey Violin Orchestra" along with Octavia

The orchestra is a world. Each contributing their own instrument, with their talent. By the time a concert we are all united, and we play together, in the hope of arriving at a magical sound: the Harmony. This is the true communism. For the movement of a Concerto

Edited December 2, 2013 by Doc. Volt