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Quiz #21: Lost In The Post

1) The envelope containing the results for this week’s quiz was delayed by a rather spectacular but still plausible series of events involving a tiger, a pair of galoshes and three pieces of old Canadian cheddar.
2) Miss Mussel stayed up til 7am Sunday morning making a website and hasn’t really been able to string more [...]

Quiz #21

Question: Why does the cat, having the entire apartment in which to find a bed, insist on laying right on top of the newsletter proofs Miss Mussel spent the weekend so carefully annotating?

Have a listen to this week’s mystery piece, as chosen by the winner of Quiz #17, Roger Miller, while you think it [...]

Quiz #16: Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Champion Is….

Daniel J Liss, who wrote in with Bzicem Kunia from Pieśni kurpiowskie by Karol Szymanowski. For those readers not up on the Kurpian dialect, that’s Whip The Horse from the Kurpie Songs. Whatever your language preferences, the songs were written in 1928–9.

Quiz #16 Clue Two

A couple of you are heading in the rightish direction with Bartok and Kodaly but neither of them is right.
The composer in question did, however,
1) die in Switzerland.
2) come into this world in the same year as Stravinsky
3) set his second opera in Sicily
He also wrote this, which is the mystery piece this week.
Special bonus [...]

Quiz #16 Clue One

Bit of a tricky one this week. The first two clues are courtesy of William.
1) The composer’s birthplace is no longer within the borders of his home country.
2) The composer later became actively interested in the folk music traditions of his country.
3) The song is part of a larger set.
Have another listen. The OM [...]

Quiz #16 Special Guest Edition

William Hughes won Quiz #14 (the one about the clarinet) two weeks ago, and for his trouble, Miss Mussel decided to let him choose the mystery piece for a future Quiz installment.
Have a listen to William’s suggestion and get those guesses in.
As usual, clues will be provided on Tues and Weds, with the winner [...]

Review: DaCapo Chamber Choir

In today’s Record
You can count on two things with the DaCapo Chamber Choir: an expertly controlled English cathedral choir sound and thoughtful programming that embraces abstraction while steering well clear of pretension. Saturday’s concert at St John The Evangelist, Kitchener was yet another example of how this choir is getting it right.
Entitled Reaching [...]