No, your eyes are not deceiving you but do feel free to have another swig of coffee. Miss Mussel’s current ghostwriting project is drawing to a close and she is looking forward to the day when she can offload all…
In today’s Record What’s more likely: the Leafs winning the Stanley Cup or a viola recital consisting of solely of music by early 20th century English composers? Fortunately for diehard Habs fans, British violist Roger Chase has saved us from…
A rather delightful piece of spam received this weekend from a person styling themselves as The Somalist urging Miss Mussel and her readers to Buy Soma Now!!!!!!. Handwringers have warned us for years the Brave New World is now. If…
Whether you like him in a powdered wig and livery or looking as if he should be on his way to a Celtic match it impossible to imagine what Western classical music would be without its elder statesman Johann Sebastian…
It’s Holy Week and Miss Mussel’s masters thesis was on 20th century setting of the Passion with particular emphasis on the Passion 2000 Project involving Tan Dun, Osvaldo Golijov, Wolfgang Rihm and Sofia Gubaidulina. As such, each day this week…
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Miss Mussel is in the final throes of manuscript finishing up and it seems the book is not going down without a fight. Some sort of black hole or parallel universe has been entered in which adding 5000 words makes…
an edited version appears in today’s Record Friday night was the third of the five Dinner Concerts on offer at the Perimeter Institute this season. When I arrived, the chalkboard covering the side wall of the Black Hole Bistro was…
So Friday afternoon, Miss Mussel announced that she was going on a date. It seems only fair then to report on what happened. He was nice enough but there was something about his conversation skills that left a little to…
in today’s Kitchener Waterloo Record The Menno Singers along with the Nota Bene Period Orchestra presented an all-Buxtehude concert on Saturday evening. A day shy of the Fourth Sunday of Lent, the program was appropriately titled “A Lenten Journey.” The…
In today’s Guelph Mercury Black Umfolosi brought a little bit of Southern Africa to the River Run Wednesday night. The group was started in 1982 by boys at a Zimbabwean boarding school. Since the school was new, there wasn’t an…
Sure, he’s a little older than what Miss Mussel usually goes for but he’s supposed to be some sort of brilliant musician or something, so she can work with it. On his profile he answered “a gaggle” in the Have…
Ok folks, the listings have been checked and rechecked. Contact has been made with people at Channel Thirteen and it seems that the concert should be ready to stream after midnight tonight. Everything is set. Allons-y! 0:00 The Channel 13…
(photo credit: David Gray/Reuters) Daniel J Wakin in the NYTimes and International Times Herald. More interesting is the audio interview. Warwick Thomspon has a rather lame write up on Bloomberg.com that describes the playing of the Koran folksong Arirang, a…
Morning folks. It’s 3:50am, that grey area between night and the next morning when most sensible people are in a blissfully deep sleep. Miss Mussel is, however, awake and readying herself for the biggest concert event of the millennium. In…
Grand Philharmonic Chamber Singers | Waterloo | Howard Dyck, baton (in today’s Record) Saturday evening’s Grand Philharmonic Chamber Singers concert was billed as a choral odyssey with the program containing pieces from different countries and in different languages, really related…
For those of you keeping score at home, here are the teams as of right now: (26th Feb, just after 11:30am) On the Bad Idea Team, we have Terry Teachout and Norman Lebrehct and Greg Sandow weighing in with: “What…
It appears that The Independent on Sunday is embracing the idea of recycling whole-heartedly. Whether this is due to an increased interest in all things environmental or an indicator that the feature idea well has run dry is another story….
Today’s Sydney Morning Herald (well yesterday’s technically since it is already tomorrow there) has a great story on shenanigans in the Australian Parliament. In a nutshell, the Opposition party is annoyed that PM Kevin Rudd does not attend sessions on…