All Entries Tagged With: "baroque"
Quiz #19 Envelope Please
Five foot French windows overlooking the city centre are lovely except that when they were installed 150 years ago, there was no such thing as an air conditioner. Now that air conditioners are everywhere, there is no such thing as five foot French windows. Circle. Square.
Muggy summer in Southern Ontario started yesterday and [...]
Quiz #19 Clue Two
Since this clue is posted so late in the day, the closing date for entries will be moved to midnight on Thursday 5th June.
Another track has been added to the player.
The clues are:
1) There is a structure of architectural and historical significance in Berlin that shares a name with this piece and its five cousins.
2) [...]
Quiz #19 Clue One
After a run of tricky mystery pieces, Miss Mussel has been trying to lob a few softballs in your direction these last couple of weeks. So far, it seems that she has failed utterly. Or, now that the academic year and concert season is over, most of you have traded in your internet [...]
Quiz #19
It’s a beautiful spring day here at OM Headquarters. Miss Mussel is recovering from a cottage weekend that looked more like this than this but even a liberal distribution of black fly and mosquito bites hasn’t dampened her Hooray for Sunshine outlook.
As such, it seems that something a bit jolly is in order for this [...]
Review: KW Symphony Back To Baroque
In today’s Record
When you go to 40-plus concerts a year, it is not often that you are surprised.
Some are life-altering and some are disappointing but most are a pleasant way to spend an evening. The very best scenario is having your expectations transformed into something altogether more interesting.
Wednesday night’s concert, the last concert of the [...]
Passions Old And New
Setting the Passion to music is a tradition nearly as old as the story itself. As early as the fifth century, the liturgy for Holy Week included plainchant settings of the Gospel accounts. It was the task of a single deacon to present the entire Passion, distinguishing between the narrative portions, the words [...]
Quiz #8 Clue One
There’s been one guess of Lully so far. Lukewarmish but off in the right direction. Perhaps the additional track and these fabulous clues will help illuminate the answer.
1) The composer had a family member called Anna Magdalena
2) He lived and worked in Salzburg
3) Around the time the piece was composed Antony Van Leeuwenhoek [...]
Quiz #8
Morning Quiz Fans,
You know the drill.
Name of composer, date of composition and name of piece.
Guesses to hello@theomniscientmussel.com so as not to spoil the fun for the others. Comments that don’t reveal the answer are most welcome in the public comments box.
Winners on Weds or whenever the answer comes in. Whichever is later.
Clues daily.
Listen here.
Good luck.
Review: KW Symphony Goes Back To Baroque
The second concert in the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony’s Back To Baroque Series in today’s Record:
Performing Baroque music can be a nightmare for those in charge of stylistic decisions. Pre or post Tourte bows? Small or standard sized ensemble? Conductor or leader? Gut or steel strings? And that perennial favourite: how much vibrato, if any and if [...]
Review: Nota Bene Period Orchestra
Nota Bene Period Orchestra 30/11/07 in today’s Record
If Saturday evening was any indication, its looks as though Dr Who isn’t the only one in possession of time warp technology. Those sitting in the pews of Parkminster United Church in Waterloo were treated by the Nota Bene Period Orchestra to a 150-minute sojourn to the early [...]
