All Entries Tagged With: "BBC"

Victimized By Her Own Prejudices

Remember that penguin flying video from yesterday’s links list? Turns out it’s an elaborate April Fool’s courtesy of the BBC. Here’s how they did it:

Miss Mussel was on guard about pranks all day but this one slipped in. It is possible that her exact words upon showing the clip to friends were, [...]

VSO Beethoven Festival on the CBC

Miss Mussel is emerging momentarily from the comfort of her Zoloft-induced haze to point you in the direction of the Beethoven Festival happening this week on CBC Radio.

Wednesday Links

Can penguins fly? You bet.

BBC1 is looking for choirs to have on its new ChoirWars program. The point is to find the Nation’s Favourite Choir presumably as voted on by viewers. There something quite lovable about this idea since it’s not a talent competition but rather one of personality. This is perhaps [...]

NYPhil in North Korea: Post Concert Press Roundup

(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 moment all other press has described as the most moving of the concert, as “long dull [...]

North Korean Orchestra To Tour UK

This just in from the CBC:
And North Korea’s State Symphony Orchestra may be planning to play three concerts in Britain this September, its largest tour to date.
The BBC will broadcast all three concerts live, according to a report Friday on Radio Free Asia.
Neither state sources nor the BBC would confirm the tour, but a spokeswoman [...]

Eleven Ladies Dancing

“You brought the ladies? All eleven of them? But are they dancing is more to the point. I don’t trust you BBC people an inch.”

Day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Tuesday Links

UPDATE 6:12pmJust realised it is actually Thursday. Miss Mussel’s temporal breakdown aside, what follows are, as far as she knows, still links.

Henry Fogel has a well thought out post on why his 25,000 strong record collection will never replace live performance.
Why can’t the English be more like the French? With the high-speed link to [...]