All Entries Tagged With: "college"
This One Time….
Four years ago, I was contracted by happenstance to play the Beethoven Horn sonata on a charity concert. The stance, as it happened, was that I was practicing for my Masters recital in the concert hall just before the pianist had booked some time and the rest, as they say, is history. The [...]
Hindu Maidens and Hot Jazz
Terry Teachout’s call for title suggestions got Miss Mussel thinking about a paper she wrote in her undergraduate days called something like Yellow Fever: Orientalism and Hot Jazz in 1920s Chicago. Slightly awkward title aside, it was a fascinating subject to research, mostly because it quickly became apparent that black musicians had no qualms about [...]
Sunday Evening at the Theatre: The Interview
The Omniscient Mussel Theatre is proud to present a fabulous one act play provisionally entitled The Interview.
Dramatis personae
Distinguished Professor - a well known expert on Shostakovich and, as it turns out, semiotics.
Somewhat Younger Professor - a quintessentially British academic, stammering, fumbling, hair constantly falling in the eyes, razor sharp wit.
Miss Mussel - PhD candidate, forthright [...]
Late Night Maths
Consider this:
10,000 men play varsity baseball each year in American colleges.
1,000 men play professional baseball in the majors.
There is obvious great disparity in the numbers here and a proper analysis would require some maths skills far beyond Miss Mussel’s ability at this late hour.
Let’s suspend reality for a moment and imagine that MLB turns over [...]
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 [...]
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