All Entries Tagged With: "Karol Szymanowski"

Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival 2008 Highlights

Roughly five hours drive from the Southern Ontario conglomeration that is Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, London, Toronto etc, Ottawa is a bit of a hike. Miss Mussel did consider using ad revenue to fund her trip but then discovered that the $10.42 she has earned since July 2007 would only get her as far as Milton….or [...]

June 11, 2008 | Miss Mussel | Comments 0

Quiz #16: Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Champion Is….

Daniel J Liss, who wrote in with Bzicem Kunia from Pieśni kurpiowskie by Karol Szymanowski. For those readers not up on the Kurpian dialect, that’s Whip The Horse from the Kurpie Songs. Whatever your language preferences, the songs were written in 1928–9.

May 16, 2008 | Miss Mussel | Comments 0