Archive for November, 2007

Overheard

Miss Mussel had her reviewer’s hat on last night and managed to overhear this delight:
Computer Engineering Student #1: I wonder if you can hire these guys?
CES #2: What guys?
CES #1: The orchestra…you know, for a party.
CES #2: What kind of party would you have an orchestra at?
CES #1: Dude. Any party. Like we’d be [...]

Thursday Links

Time is practicing its disappearing act in earnest today. Here is an assortment of pieces that are languishing in the “comment on in future” pile

The Price of Prodigy “Rejecting a place at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Chloë [Hanslip] opted to travel to wherever the itinerant [zakhar] Bron was teaching, often staying in a [...]

Another Dress Code Nightmare

Yesterday Miss Mussel explored a tip of the orchestra dress code iceberg. Today’s thoughts centre around what conductors of the female persuasion are to wear. Essentially, it’s a trap, a wardrobe black hole of sorts.
The female equivalent of tails is an evening dress. Simple enough although likely anxiety causing for the conductress [...]

In Praise Of Formality…Or At Least A Decent Tuxedo

There’s been a mild stink on the intertubes of late regarding the dress code for orchestras. The argument is not so much about visual appearance as it is about the relative merit of ritual, a word that seems to have descended into that level of vocabularial purgatory just above curse words along with its [...]

Video Vocab

Today’s word: Supererogatory

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Dans La Cuisine (Alessi and KitchenAid) and Newspaper/Magazine Subscriptions (Lit and classical music mags and major world rags)

Me, You & Edith: Montreal Edition

Three final year horn players rent a car and drive six hours to Montreal to audition for grad school. It is February. In Quebec. Something the girls have failed to take into account when packing their suitcases in balmy Southern Ontario. It’s not a big deal. They were only going for two days [...]

Wouldn’t Say That I’ve Never Done It

(click to enlarge) Hundreds more laughs @ XKCD
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20th Century Composers (books), 20th Century Music (CD), Fine Art (Books), A Bit Of A Laugh (DVD), A Good Read, Introduction To Music (Books), Moleskine–The Artist’s notebook, Photography (Books), Reinvented (CD), Vox Pop (CD)