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Quiz #13 Clue Two
Have another listen to this week’s mystery piece while ruminating on these clues:
1) In the year the piece was composed, slaves rebelled on Amistad, Verdi’s first opera premiered in Milan and Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber.
2) In his youth, the composer wrote under the name Skülander
3) He wrote the review of the posthumous premiere of Schubert’s [...]
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. [...]
Tuesday Links
UPDATE 6:12pmJust realised it is actually Thursday. Miss Mussel’s temporal breakdown aside, what follows are, as far as she knows, still links.
Henry Fogel has a well thought out post on why his 25,000 strong record collection will never replace live performance.
Why can’t the English be more like the French? With the high-speed link to [...]
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