Sunday Links
Total Wipeout is currently on the television, so obviously Miss Mussel is not totally ready to let silly season go. Nevertheless, the weather has turned, concert brochures are strewn around the house and it seems the papers are turning their attention back to the proper news. Here’s a few items that have caught MIss Mussel’s eye.
- Sex And The Married Man – no matter what your thoughts are on the matter, this is just plain good writing.
- The Cerealist, a new website that is trying to be classical music’s Onion/Perez Hilton, comes up with their best post yet: The Automated Review Generator. Another in the genre is Jeremy Denk’s Concert Review Mad Lib. All Miss Mussel has to say is: if only it were that easy.
- No more free drinks for Condé Nast staff. Or massages. Or sushi. Guess the New Yorker job isn’t so great after all.
- There was some hoopla when Rufus Wainwright’s opera premiered about whether he did his own orchestration [he did]. Frank J. Oteri at the New Music Box wonders doing-it-yourself even really matters.
- Zing!
- Charlotte Higgins on the modern perils of being an opera singer.