The Omniscient Mussel

Friday Links

  • Stuart Jeffries offers an indie kids’ guide to classical music in today’s Guardian and, predictably, things are heating up in the comments. Miss Mussel would have recommended different pieces but then that’s half the fun. Has he got it right or is this just another round of pretentious claptrap whose sole purpose is to condescend to today’s yoof with outdated elitist ideals…or something.
  • Ben at Classical Convert is ranking Beethoven symphonies based on Youtube views. It seems the most popular Beethoven number is 957364812 – Miss Mussel’s is 753846219 – what about you?
  • If you ever find yourself in the company of two or more horn players and wish to stir things up just for the sport of it, Bruce Hembd has a handy list of 10 things you can casually drop into conversation.
  • Typeface geeks (you rang?) will be happy to note that the Internet-safe font library is about to get thousands of new books. Finally.
  • What do human brains sound like? Ummm….one hand clapping?

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