Archive for December, 2007

Christmas Tallysheet

Others have reported on the treasures they received on the Big Day, so, in aid of not being left in the dust by her fellow bloggers, Miss Mussel is happy to report that she has acquired the following:

both of which should come in handy for this whole writing for a living gig. Maybe not [...]

Two Turtle Doves

Day 1

Oscar Peterson 1925-2007: Obits and Tributes List

Here’s what the press is saying.
Obituaries
The Globe and Mail
New York Times
Associated Press
The Guardian
Reuters
Tributes
The Guardian– leave your own memories and tributes
The Overgrown Path–an interesting juxtaposition of Stockhausen and Peterson
John Fordham in the Guardian on how he came to love Oscar
In Praise Of Oscar Peterson in the Guardian
The Star’s Peter Goddard on the private side of Peterson
Terry [...]

A Partridge In A Pear Tree

A special Yuletide video presentation from your Omniscient Mussel. There’ll be one a day until Epiphany on 6th January. Bon appetit.
A Life In Pieces is a series of twelve, five minute shows. Originally broadcast on BBC2 at Christmas 1990. The series features Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling (played by Peter Cook) being interviewed by Ludovic [...]

Review: Festival of Carols, Elora

In today’s Record
Modelled on the Church of England carol service tradition, the Festival of Carols presented Saturday evening by the Elora Festival Singers was a perfect microcosm of the ideal Christmas season: full of wit and good cheer and free from holiday anxieties about presents, neverending baking and Uncle Harold’s inevitably inappropriate dinner table comments.
St. [...]

Hating Celine: The Ethical Choice

It causes Miss Mussel great pain to admit it, but she shares citizenship with the pictured woman/stick insect, aptly described by Sam Anderson as
the Antichrist of the indie sensibility, an overemoting schmaltz-bot who has somehow managed to convert the ethos of Wal-Mart into sine waves and broadcast them, at kidney-rupturingly high volume, directly into [...]

Review: Messiah with the Grand Philharmonic Choir

An edited version appears in today’s Kitchener-Waterloo Record.
Practically every choral society, no matter how meagre their resources, mounts an annual production of Messiah, by leaps and bounds Handel’s most famous work. There is something quite satisfying about participating in an event, knowing the same performance is being given in communities all across the world. [...]