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Today Only: Beethoven Orgy On The CBC

UPDATE: This broadcast will take place on Sunday 13th April, not today.
If you didn’t get enough Beethoven this week, you can indulge yourself all day tomorrow starting at 9am.
From the CBC website:
The symphonies will be presented in order with each to be preceeded by a conversation between Bill Richardson and Vancouver Symphony [...]

Maybe It’s Not So Bad After All

After giving it some careful thought, Miss Mussel is willing to admit that perhaps she has been a tad overdramatic about the whole “destruction of classical music by the country’s public broadcaster” thing.
To be honest, Canada has many other national treasures and doesn’t need a hold over from 19th century Europe to define [...]

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.

Going To Hell In A Handbasket

First the record label, then the radio and now the orchestra. Anyone have some spare Zoloft they want to send Miss Mussel’s way?

Thursday Links

Gustavo Dudamel on 60 Minutes 17th Feb 2008 story | video

Operachic brings news of Lorin Maazel appearing on the Colbert Report Monday night. Unfortunately, the video link seems to be broken.

Scott @ Musical Perceptions brings us this delightful video collection of ways you can turn your iPhone into a musical instrument.

The CBC reports [...]

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 [...]