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Expanding Into New Markets

A few minutes nosing around OM stats revealed this shocking new development:
The Omniscient Mussel is #1 for the search term Ron Maclean + thumbs up.

While this state of affairs really illustrates the vagaries of Google indexing more than inroads made into the wild world of NHL on the interwebs, it is still….what’s the [...]

Maybe It’s Not So Bad After All

After giving it some careful thought, Miss Mussel is willing to admit that perhaps she has been a tad overdramatic about the whole “destruction of classical music by the country’s public broadcaster” thing.
To be honest, Canada has many other national treasures and doesn’t need a hold over from 19th century Europe to define [...]

Review: Messiah with the Grand Philharmonic Choir

An edited version appears in today’s Kitchener-Waterloo Record.
Practically every choral society, no matter how meagre their resources, mounts an annual production of Messiah, by leaps and bounds Handel’s most famous work. There is something quite satisfying about participating in an event, knowing the same performance is being given in communities all across the world. [...]

Carilloneuse

A lovely surprise in the OM mailbox today: a note from Jonathan Bellman relating his experience with the carillon. As stated in the About page, Miss Mussel is a bit of a carilloneuse herself although nowhere near what one would call accomplished.
This was the most entertaining bit of Jonathan’s post:
Does Norm know how [...]