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KW Symphony 2008/09 Season Highlights

Kitchener-Waterloo is about an hour west of Toronto, an hour east of London, and an hour and half from Niagara Falls. If you live somewhere between here and there, take a drive over some night and take in a concert with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony.

12th & 13th September John Corigliano Promenade Overture, [...]

Bach Cab Sessions

Reuters brought news today of a fantastic little concert series called The Black Cab Sessions. The premise is simple: musicians are invited to play one a song in the back of a London black cab and it is filmed all in one take.
There are 34 chapters in the series so far and all are pop/rockers [...]

Thursday Links

Loads of fresh links to get you through Thursday, which is nearly Friday, which is nearly the weekend. Hurrah!

Colin Holter @ The New Music Box asks, “Why would a quartet learn and present my piece when they could be learning and presenting the Grosse Fuge?”

Over at Dial M, Phil Ford brings to our attention [...]

I Feel Like I’ve Heard This Somewhere Before

It appears that The Independent on Sunday is embracing the idea of recycling whole-heartedly. Whether this is due to an increased interest in all things environmental or an indicator that the feature idea well has run dry is another story.
Today’s paper has a story about cellist Natalie Clein busking in St Pancras Station, London. [...]

Quiz #4: And the winner is….

Giorgia from Opera Bouffe. She correctly identified the movements as belonging to Cello Suite No. 3 Op. 87 by Benjamin Britten
Honourable mention must go to Damiel who wrote in with the Cello Suites in general. He beat Giorgia to the finish line but wasn’t able to give the specific information required. [...]

Quiz #4 Second Clue

No one has written in with the answer as of yet, an OM quiz record so far. Perhaps yesterday’s clues were a bit vague.
Let’s narrow it down a little:
1) The opus number is a not a prime number, nor is it even.
2) The composition was written in either 1964, 1967 or 1971 making the Presidents [...]

Quiz #4: First Clue

Giorgia has speculated Britten as the composer. Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. That is for Miss Mussel to know and you to find out.
Today’s clues are:
1) The opus number of this piece is greater than 2(12+6) and less than 5(26-2)/(129-(64)2).
2) This work was composed between the presidencies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Jimmy [...]