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Program Notes Catalogue
Miss Mussel writes programme notes for orchestral and chamber music concerts in England and would be happy to create an original set of notes for your next concert. Her preferred method is to write an essay that links the whole program together and discusses overarching themes rather than writing three or four independent notes. [...]
Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival 2008 Highlights
Roughly five hours drive from the Southern Ontario conglomeration that is Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, London, Toronto etc, Ottawa is a bit of a hike. Miss Mussel did consider using ad revenue to fund her trip but then discovered that the $10.42 she has earned since July 2007 would only get her as far as Milton….or [...]
Festival Of The Sound 2008 Season Highlights
Founded by Canadian pianist Anton Kuerti in 1980, the Festival Of The Sound has become one of Canada’s best known summer music festivals. The venue is the beautiful northern Ontario town of Parry Sound, located on Georgian Bay, roughly 150 miles north of Toronto. That’s 241 km for lives not lived under the Union [...]
The Saddest Music In The World
The Walrus has a list going of the saddest music in the world as companion to Moira Farr’s article on music and depression. The usual suspects are there (Tears In Heaven, Joni Mitchell, Patsy Cline) as well a few that are off the beaten track.
Pointing out that there isn’t any classical [...]
Review: Grand Philharmonic Chamber Singers/Dyck
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 only on the basis of their sacred provenance. This strategy can sometimes end in tears but [...]
Toronto Symphony 2008/09 Season Highlights
Opening Night
17, 18 & 20 September 2008 - Mahler Symphony No.3 Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano; Peter Oundjian, baton
3, 4 & 6 December 2008 - The Planets and The Rite of Spring; Peter Oundjian, baton
28 & 29 January 2009 - Evelyn Glennie, percussion; Giancarlo Guerrero, baton
26 & 28 February 2009 - Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust [...]
Can Someone Please Pass The Kleenex?
There looks to be a bit of a meme going around related to music that makes one misty-eyed. After a little thinking, it seems that, for Miss Mussel, the culprit is Mahler, followed by Brahms.
Mahler’s Second Symphony was the most recent instance. The TSO performed it in the spring and the [...]
Ruminating on Second Hand Theories
From Sir Donald Tovey’s 1934 lecture entitled Musical Form and Matter
Neither the humble lover nor the master of pure musical form need entertain any tolerance for theories that deny the supremacy of absolute music. But all history and experience go to prove that the absoluteness of music is a result; that this result remains [...]
Introducing: Now Playing
This is a feature intended to give you, dear reader, an idea of what delights are floating around OM headquarters. Generally Miss Mussel has to resist going into the music shop altogether to ensure that she does not consign herself to a month of tuna on white on the back of the Complete Brahms [...]
