Monday Links
Here are a few things that have popped up on The OM radar in recent days.
- Mendelssohn offed himself over Jenny Lind. Or perhaps would have if his brain hadn’t done the job first. It’s all cloaks and daggers as Jessica Duchen explores the murky world of unrequited love, 19th century style. There are secret documents, people. Where is James Bond when you need him?
- Bach is an ass and other thoughts on heuristic conversations with dead people…or something…over at Dial M. Basically, the question is, can we sure how peoples’ minds worked?
- The Toronto-based Nathaniel Dett Chorale is performing as part of the presidential inaugurapalooza next Tuesday. Nathaniel Dett was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario in 1882, moved across the river to Niagara Falls NY at age 11 and went on to become a composer and conductor of some repute in choral music circles. The NDC is not a mainstage act but will be representing, as it were, at the Canadian embassy on Pennsylvania Avenue.
- Ben at Classical Convert gets all existential: Does a pitch exist because it has been notated or because it has been played?
- Non Sequitur Link: 3 Reasons To Take Your Clothes Off In The City – don’t worry, SFW and 100% non-creepy.