Archive for September, 2007
Tears and Cheers: The Flatiron Trio at the KWCMS
An edited version of this review appears in today’s Kitchener-Waterloo Record.
Attending a concert at the Music Room is always an experience to remember. It is a sort of inner-sanctum for chamber music lovers with its haphazard decoration forming a major part of its considerable charm. The chairs are a quaint mishmash of styles and [...]
Hindu Maidens and Hot Jazz
Terry Teachout’s call for title suggestions got Miss Mussel thinking about a paper she wrote in her undergraduate days called something like Yellow Fever: Orientalism and Hot Jazz in 1920s Chicago. Slightly awkward title aside, it was a fascinating subject to research, mostly because it quickly became apparent that black musicians had no qualms about [...]
On The Other Hand
On Friday, Miss Mussel wrote on the relationship between humour and criticism, taking great care to disparage academic hubris, or, to use the vernacular “having [one's] head up [one's own] ass.”
After some late night YouTube trawling, it appears that there is a fault in her argument. As Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie clearly [...]
The One That Started It All
On her About page, Miss Mussel acknowledges the influence of Sir Donald Francis Tovey. The real truth is that he is the reason this blog got started in the first place. Well, that and writing about reverse mortgages really tends to destroy rather than nourish Miss Mussel’s soul. Here’s how it went down:
One day [...]
The Real Deal
“I’m not a creator. It’s the composer who is the creator. I aim to focus on the way to deliver the message, according to the music, as humbly as possible, though that’s not the right word because a conductor can never be humble.”
Tim Ashley interviews BBC Phil conductor Gianandrea Noseda in today’s Guardian. Miss Mussel [...]
Adventures with Random: Episode III
1. Michael Praetorius; In Dulci Jubilo; The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
2. Elvis Presley; Rubberneckin’ remix
3. Louis Armstrong; Potato Head Blues; The Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings
4. Handel; Water Music HWV 349; The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
5. Schumann; Traumeri Op 15 no.7; Rostropovich and Alexander Dedyukhin
6. Brahms; Ein Deutsches Requiem, vi; Berlin Philharmoniker
7. Handel; Bless’d [...]
Building The Mystery
Something’s brewing.
It’s big.
Really big.
Like Last Night of the Proms big.*
Best of all….you might get some free stuff.
Check it out.
(updated regularly, so you may want to check obsessively throughout the day)
*simile is for “buzz-creating” purposes only. Actual bigness cannot be guaranteed.
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