Archive for October, 2007
Political Prancing Gets A C&D
Highlights of an article by Shirley Dent, is the Communications Director for the Institute of Ideas., the organization behind the Battle of Ideas happening in London this weekend.
As Brucie and co hit our screens again this autumn with family favourite Strictly Come Dancing, just watch your tippy-toes don’t get trampled on by the stampede of [...]
Let’s Just Get All This Out In The Open
The Battle of Ideas take place in Britain this weekend (as far as Miss Mussel can tell) and is a truly fascinating concept. It’s aims are “to showcase new arguments about the core issues of the day, while avoiding getting bogged down in the minutiae of everyday policy” and “to initiate open-ended discussions regardless of [...]
As Abhorrent As The Worship Of The Golden Calf
Sir Donald’s backhanded defense of opera.
Doubtless there are some people to whom the use of music for illlustrating other things is as abhorrent as the worship of the golden calf was to the law-giver of Israel; but if you wish to break all the commandments of aesthetic philosophy at once you will infer that, because [...]
Whatever Happened To That Contest?
Nearly a month ago, Miss Mussel made an allusion to a contest that was meant to happen on this site in the first week of October as part of a whole blog launch extravaganza event. After discussing the situation with the OM marketing department, it was decided that a monthly draw for OM Digest subscribers [...]
Just The Facts, Norm….Just The Facts.
A quick look at Chris Foley’s pagecast reveals that Norman Lebrecht’s book recall news has been met with some gleeful rubbing of hands, not to mention some very creative headlines.
Daily Observations has Lebrecht Gets Spanked, while Sequenza 21 offers some delicious commentary under The Norman Conquests.
For years, he’s been planting verbal IEDs along the classical [...]
Can Someone Please Pass The Kleenex?
There looks to be a bit of a meme going around related to music that makes one misty-eyed. After a little thinking, it seems that, for Miss Mussel, the culprit is Mahler, followed by Brahms.
Mahler’s Second Symphony was the most recent instance. The TSO performed it in the spring and the [...]
Now With Cassock and Surplice
At 7:30 last evening, Miss Mussel started a new venture: church choir. Although she has not been a chorister since primary school and even then only in a non-audition school choir, the idea has been a fixture on the the “Things To Do Sometime In Future” list for quite a while.
On the whole, Miss [...]
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