Archive for March, 2008
Quiz #9: The Day You’ve All Been Waiting For
[Drumroll] The Super Ultimate Winner of OM Quiz #9 is none other than Roger Miller. Unless the intertubes exist in the afterlife, it’s probably not this Roger Miller but nevermind.
All About Mortgages: A Public Service Announcement
No, your eyes are not deceiving you but do feel free to have another swig of coffee. Miss Mussel’s current ghostwriting project is drawing to a close and she is looking forward to the day when she can offload all the subprime-related information that is currently occupying valuable cerebral real estate.
It seems a shame to [...]
Quiz #9: Clue One
Miss Mussel has decided against adding another track this week. She has confidence in your guessing abilities.
Have another listen and consider the following clues:
1) The composer was chronically unlucky in love.
2) He only wrote one string quartet
3) In the year the piece was written, a crash on the NY Stock Exchange started a depression.
Review: Roger Chase and Michiko Otaki
In today’s Record
What’s more likely: the Leafs winning the Stanley Cup or a viola recital consisting of solely of music by early 20th century English composers? Fortunately for diehard Habs fans, British violist Roger Chase has saved us from admitting anything untoward. Wednesday evening at the Music Room, Chase and pianist Michiko Otaki presented music [...]
Quiz #9
MORNING CAMPERS!!!!!!!
(Apologies for any obnoxiouness in this post. Miss Mussel gave up carbonated beverages of all sorts for Lent and is now flying high courtesy of the Coca-Cola company)
Here’s this week’s quiz. Miss Mussel hasn’t yet decided if she will add other movements for this one. Begging emails will be given some consideration.
Composer, [...]
“All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”
A rather delightful piece of spam received this weekend from a person styling themselves as The Somalist urging Miss Mussel and her readers to Buy Soma Now!!!!!!.
Handwringers have warned us for years the Brave New World is now. If this spammer is the prophet he claims to be, it seems that worriers the world over [...]
Birthday Wishes For The Artful Codger
Whether you like him in a powdered wig and livery or looking as if he should be on his way to a Celtic match it impossible to imagine what Western classical music would be without its elder statesman Johann Sebastian Bach. Sure, there are older composers (Lully,
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