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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 [...]

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 [...]

Wednesday Links

Jessica Duchen has a piece in today’s Independent on the Barenboim Beethoven cycle. Miss Mussel would have given her right arm to be there but the commute would have been several giant steps on the wrong side of insane.

The Guardian informs that the world’s largest music collection is on sale on eBay. [...]

Wednesday Links

The Independent reports on David Garrett’s unfortunate tumble down the stairs, the results of which are positively gut-wrenching. It appears as if this time crazy glue and a little WD40 just isn’t going to cut it.

Mark N. Grant over at the New Music Box has a piece on why concert halls still matter. [...]

Thursday Links

“Continued research into procrastination should not be delayed…” NYTimes article. Research survey. (It’s for academia, so it’s educational and therefore not really a waste of time) Miss Mussel scored in the top 10 to 25%. You?
Phil Ford over at Dial M has a lovely post up on finding his dad in [...]

Linkity Links, Part The Second

More mortgage writing equals more links lists. Fortunately, there are some really exciting things to link to today, so it’s quite possible this list would have been posted in any case.
Also, a warm welcome to the ten new subscribers that turned up yesterday. Good to see you etc.

Matthew Guerrieri has an [...]

Tuesday Links

Bernard Holland has an excellent piece in the NYTimes on audience behaviour in centuries past. It doubles as a sort of review of Kenneth Hamilton’s book on the same subject After The Golden Age, the premise of which is: if music is to go back to original instruments and original performance practices, it has [...]