Archive for February, 2008
Quiz #5 Clue One
An additional track added today to help you work out what the mystery piece is. Have a listen while you contemplate these clues.
1) The composer came from a musical family.
2) He wrote other pieces for this instrument
3) The manuscript for this and the other pieces in the series was very nearly destroyed when someone [...]
Review: Grand Philharmonic Chamber Singers/Dyck
Grand Philharmonic Chamber Singers | Waterloo | Howard Dyck, baton (in today’s Record)
Saturday evening’s Grand Philharmonic Chamber Singers concert was billed as a choral odyssey with the program containing pieces from different countries and in different languages, really related only on the basis of their sacred provenance. This strategy can sometimes end in tears but [...]
DPRK & The NY Phil: The Game So Far
For those of you keeping score at home, here are the teams as of right now: (26th Feb, just after 11:30am)
On the Bad Idea Team, we have Terry Teachout and Norman Lebrehct and Greg Sandow weighing in with:
“What would you have thought if Franklin Roosevelt had encouraged the Philharmonic to accept an official invitation [...]
Quiz #5
Happy Monday, folks. We’ve had quiz representation from the horn, cello, oratorio and the symphonic sections of the musical world. This week, we are going to wade into the world of..well we’ll get to that later.
Have a listen.
This week, Miss Mussel is going to add another bit of the piece each day [...]
I Feel Like I’ve Heard This Somewhere Before
It appears that The Independent on Sunday is embracing the idea of recycling whole-heartedly. Whether this is due to an increased interest in all things environmental or an indicator that the feature idea well has run dry is another story.
Today’s paper has a story about cellist Natalie Clein busking in St Pancras Station, London. [...]
Who Says Politics Are Boring?
Today’s Sydney Morning Herald (well yesterday’s technically since it is already tomorrow there) has a great story on shenanigans in the Australian Parliament.
In a nutshell, the Opposition party is annoyed that PM Kevin Rudd does not attend sessions on Fridays, instead choosing to do other things, like visit the electorate. How did they illustrate [...]
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