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Aural Advent Calendar: Day 8

Day 8 of this Adventual Odyssey is a hat tip to great arrangements. Usually, Miss Mussel loathes The 12 Days of Christmas but, as you have no doubt already discovered in the video, it’s not the tune but what you do with it that counts. Watching The Kings Singers force feed Julie Andrews beer, pfeffernüsse and kügel is entertaining no matter which way you slice it.

Friday Links

One serious link today followed by three rather more fun ones. Seems like a good balance for Friday, no?

Nick Fraser, the man in charge of BBC documentaries, asks “What are the consequences of making or writing something? Does it ever make a difference in the way it was intended?”

Matthew Guerrieri has another installment [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Really Emotional Parts

Some very random comments from Keri Russell regarding her crash course in celloing to prepare for her role as a NY Phil member in the film August Rush. Miss Mussel is hoping the poor girl was quoted unsympathetically. The alternative is simply unimaginable.

“The joke is you’re never just OK at the cello; you have [...]