Icarus-Alternate Ending
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Category: This & That
XKCD: Together
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Leontyne Price on What’s My Line?
via @funwithiago on that new-fangled Twitter. Folks, it is the future. Climb aboard.
KWS Musicians Ian Whitman, Edwin Outwater In The Youtube Symphony
Wednesday night is the YouTube Symphony performance and Canada is representing big time. We’ve got 4-6 people (see explanation below) in the orchestra and one borrowed one getting some podium time. Not all of our orchestra member have posted an…
An Die Nachtigall
Ah nightingale, what would art music imagery be without you? Cuckoo! *GROAN* Brahms wrote a lovely song called An Die Nachtigall which Miss Mussel transcribed for horn. Well, more like transposed. As horn players do. On the fly. Daily. At…
‘Musical Anatomy’ By Shawn Feeny
From Chris Foley via Twitter comes news of a rather unusual set of drawings on display at COUNTERPULSE in San Francisco. Artist Shawn Feeny has combined human heads with musical instruments in a way that is vaguely reminiscent of Cyril…
“You’ve an awful nerve to do that.”
A second episode of archive-diving in aid of not doing the work Miss Mussel is supposed to be doing has proved to very illuminating re: the repeated persecution of horn players in the courts of New York State. Interested readers,…
Opera Synopsis Contest Now Has $20 Arkiv Voucher As Prize
The headline says it all really, but in case you missed it, go here to get the lowdown and post your entry. Contest closes midnight EST on Sunday.
Musical Sudoku
Miss Mussel hasn’t to date discovered what all the fuss is about in Sudoku-land. Crosswords are enjoyable way to pass a bus journey but the pleasure of unlocking Sudoku patterns has remained a rather mysterious one. Until today, that is….
Vancouver Symphony 2009-10 Season Highlights
The latest Canadian performing arts organization to announce their plans for the 2009/10 season is The Vancouver Symphony. 3400km to the west of Toronto, Vancouver hugs the very western edge of mainland Canada and takes great delight in only needing…
Beta
Those that are reading via feedreader may not have noticed the intermittent flashes of bizzarerie that have popped up on The OM these last few days. Miss Mussel has a terrible habit of editing websites live rather than on her…
Weekend Diary
Mahler, Whitacre and MONSTER JAM
SALE: Cheap Tickets At The Kitchener Waterloo Symphony
As part of their BIG TICKET program, patrons can choose to attend any 3 concerts for $60:
Thoughts On DRM
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Bless
Combine this with your free DG download and you’re guaranteed a home run tomorrow.
Unravelling The True Inwardness Of Facts
Archive diving in the NY Times comes up trumps
A Song For Your Sweetheart
Deutsche Grammophon has gone all weak at the knees and is allowing lov3rs everywhere to download a free track from their special Valentine’s Day Collection at the DG Shop. There are the usual super cheese collections of opera arias and…
National Ballet of Canada: 2009/10 Season
Alternative Title: News From The City That Thinks It Is The Capital The National Ballet of Canada has announced its 2009/10 season and there looks to be some crackers in the line-up. There is also an extraordinary amount of Tchaikovsky….
Why Internet TV Is The Future
Go here. Push the pink play button. Slide over to 36:00. Take note of what the horns do at 36:25 Stand in awe of Dvorak’s mad prescience skillz. Sure, he was all about incorporating native American music into his own…
Anti-Wagner Billboards To Run On London Buses
Well, sort of. In the sense that they’re not but they should and thanks to the wonderful world of the internet, Miss Mussel can create her own reality and pretend that they are. Wikiality, people. The lack of comment in…