- Jessica Duchen has a piece in today’s Independent on the Barenboim Beethoven cycle. Miss Mussel would have given her right arm to be there but the commute would have been several giant steps on the wrong side of insane.
- The Guardian informs that the world’s largest music collection is on sale on eBay. Over 3 million records and 30,000 CDs including “the first CD ever produced” and Elvis original 45s. The minimum bid has been set at $3 million US with no reserve. Ben from Classical Convert was moaning about his taxes the other day. Here’s the solution: buy the collection, donate it to a museum, and bag yourself the mother of all write-offs.
- Skeptic Magazine has a look at the Mozart Effect. Not surprisingly, they conclude that, “If the Mozart Effect teaches us anything, it’s that an elegant metaphor is always at risk of becoming a common expression, a copyrighted product, a popular belief infused with a magic that is difficult to dispel.” Now where have we heard that before?
- Times, they are a changing north of 49. The CBC is axing their classical recording activity and the Toronto Symphony is starting their own label.
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