All Entries Tagged With: "AC Douglas"

Also, A Pig Just Flew Past My Window

Miss Mussel never thought she would say this but it appears that, for once, she unequivocally and without reservation agrees with ACD. Don’t tell anyone.

Raise Your Hands In The Air Like You Just Don’t Care

Free drinks all round at OM Headquarters today. Why?
1) Spring has sprung
2) It’s a beautiful day in the neighbourhood
3) Miss Mussel has cracked her first Top 50 Classical Music Blog list.
Not to worry, you don’t have to write in with your answer. It’s #3. AC Douglas over at Sounds and Fury [...]

DPRK & The NY Phil: The Game So Far

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 would you have thought if Franklin Roosevelt had encouraged the Philharmonic to accept an official invitation [...]

Easy There, Tigers

In Praise Of Formality…Or At Least A Decent Tuxedo

There’s been a mild stink on the intertubes of late regarding the dress code for orchestras. The argument is not so much about visual appearance as it is about the relative merit of ritual, a word that seems to have descended into that level of vocabularial purgatory just above curse words along with its [...]

Just The Facts, Norm….Just The Facts.

A quick look at Chris Foley’s pagecast reveals that Norman Lebrecht’s book recall news has been met with some gleeful rubbing of hands, not to mention some very creative headlines.
Daily Observations has Lebrecht Gets Spanked, while Sequenza 21 offers some delicious commentary under The Norman Conquests.
For years, he’s been planting verbal IEDs along the classical [...]