The Independent reports on David Garrett’s unfortunate tumble down the stairs, the results of which are positively gut-wrenching. It appears as if this time crazy glue and a little WD40 just isn’t going to cut it.
Mark N. Grant over at the New Music Box has a piece on why concert halls still matter. The comments somehow turned into a defense of amplified sound despite the fact that Grant really only mentioned that in passing in his article. For Miss Mussel, there are two reasons concert halls still matter:
1) Ice cream. You just can’t buy that kind anywhere else.
2) Gossiping old ladies. Sometimes the most entertaining part of going to a concert is listening to the people around you get settled in and catch up on the latest news. You just don’t get that with a CD.
The trusty Guardian brings news of a new social networking site for classical musicians and aficionados call Dilettante. It’s still in it’s infancy, but it could turn into something quite special…..or at least a new way to waste time after the initial thrill of Facebook fades. Where else can you be BFF with the LPO, OAE and Tasmin Little? It’s a UK start-up but so was habeus corpus and that seems to have made it around the world ok.
