All Entries Tagged With: "Manchester"
Upstairs/Downstairs
The following story actually happened while I was working as a chambermaid at a four star hotel in Manchester city centre. What music students won’t do to pay the bills. I wish I was embellishing, but truth really is stranger than fiction here. [Warning: Things do get a little graphic towards the [...]
VSO Beethoven Festival on the CBC
Miss Mussel is emerging momentarily from the comfort of her Zoloft-induced haze to point you in the direction of the Beethoven Festival happening this week on CBC Radio.
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Last night Miss Mussel was crafting a post on why horn players screw up so often. It was supposed to be a quick, light-hearted explanation of where the horn sits on the harmonic series. Somehow during the course of the writing she was overtaken by a giant curiosity monster and the next thing [...]
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 [...]
