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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 [...]

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Aye To That

Rupert Christiansen writes an ode to St Cecilia in today’s Telegraph.
Even when she’s bad - and there are times when I want to smack her - she is absolutely 100 per cent Bartoli, and for that alone, in an age in which phoney over-packaged mediocrity regularly passes as artistry, I love and salute her.
Miss Mussel [...]

Now With Cassock and Surplice

At 7:30 last evening, Miss Mussel started a new venture: church choir. Although she has not been a chorister since primary school and even then only in a non-audition school choir, the idea has been a fixture on the the “Things To Do Sometime In Future” list for quite a while.
On the whole, Miss [...]

Beans, Beans, The Musical Fruit…

A couple of years ago, Miss Mussel was lured to a Halle Orchestra concert by a bit of Tchaikovsky. This is noteworthy in itself, as she almost always find his works to be overly sentimental, deathly dull affairs. The ticket led to a balcony seat next to a pair of women in their forties [...]