Archive for October, 2007
Bewitched
Westminster Cathedral Choir
Five-Finger Discount: Highbrow Edition
Miss Mussel’s Reuters Oddly Enough feed informed her yesterday that merchants at the Frankfurt Book Show can use the unofficial stolen book list to predict the bestsellers. In a nutshell, if people steal the books, the must be interesting and by extension, interesting enough for less opportunistic bibliophiles to purchase at a later [...]
Conscientiously Blind To A Real Aesthetic
Does technical knowledge of music help or hinder a listener’s experience? Sir Donald weighs in:
I was once severely rebuked by a friend when I pointed out a specially beautiful example of “double counterpoint in the twelfth” in an orchestral work. My friend dryly said that there was no beauty in such a merely [...]
Good Vibrations: WLU Symphony Orchestra
Review: Wilfrid Laurier University Symphony Orchestra, in today’s KW Record
Saturday evening was the first concert of the year for Wilfrid Laurier’s Symphony Orchestra. The atmosphere in the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall was relaxed and convivial with most of the audience made up of people under the age of thirty.
The first piece [...]
4′ 21″
Clair De Lune
David Oisterakh and Frida Bauer
Adventures with Random: Episode IV
1. Brahms; A minor Intermezzo Op 118; Stephen Kovacevich
2. Bay City Rollers; Saturday Night
3. Louis Armstrong; Willie The Weeper;
4. Big Wreck; Knee Deep
5. Bach;Gigue BWV 1010; Yo-Yo Ma
6. Ella Fitzgerald; My Funny Valentine
7. Ella Fitzgerald; Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
8. Reinhardt & Grapelli; Swing 42
You Know You’re Famous When
Originally spotted on Google.ca, but it’s on homepages for USA, UK, Australia, Italy and France, Nigeria and The Congo as well as, most certainly, every other Google homepage in existence.
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