About Miss Mussel
Hello! I’m The Omniscient Mussel. Thanks for stopping by. On this site you’ll find comment on things at least tenuously related to classical music and culture with regular features like The Weekly Quiz and Spine Tinglers alongside out and out silliness.
The OM is also the home of the #operaplot contest.
Miss Mussel has been heavily influenced by Emily Post and Sir Donald Francis Tovey and hopes to continue in the tradition of insightful commentary overlaid by razor sharp wit. Failing that, hopefully you’ll at least enjoy the videos.
Offline, Miss Mussel’s alter ego Marcia Adair, is a freelance classical music critic, ghostwriter of non-fiction books and sometime photographer living just west of Toronto. Her work appears in The Waterloo Region Record, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail and The Guardian with varying degrees of regularity. She also appears on and creates content for CBC Radio 2.
Questions/comments/corrections/solutions to global problems may be sent to hello [at] theomniscientmussel [dot] com