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Thursday Links

Elliott Carter is the first composer toattend his centenary celebrations. It’s a remarkable achievement. And the music’s not so bad either..

Life’s A Pitch has a Best of 2008 contest going. Note to residents of the Kdub: If you like Miss Mussel’s reviews, send in a nomination.

If the contents of Miss Mussel’s [...]

Monday Links

Lots of great stuff coming in lately on the feedreader. Here’s some of the highlights.

The link is a bit old but the content is absolutely brilliant — Matthew Guerrieri gives an alternate explanation as to why classical music audiences are so old. A refreshing view grounded in fact and free of tired rhetoric…it’s [...]

Friday Links

One serious link today followed by three rather more fun ones. Seems like a good balance for Friday, no?

Nick Fraser, the man in charge of BBC documentaries, asks “What are the consequences of making or writing something? Does it ever make a difference in the way it was intended?”

Matthew Guerrieri has another installment [...]

Thanks For The Laughs, Gang

Miss Mussel is in the final throes of manuscript finishing up and it seems the book is not going down without a fight. Some sort of black hole or parallel universe has been entered in which adding 5000 words makes the text need 5000 more. Should Miss Mussel attempt deke out this cosmic [...]

Pub Quiz For Classical Music Nerds

DPRK & The NY Phil: The Game So Far

For those of you keeping score at home, here are the teams as of right now: (26th Feb, just after 11:30am)
On the Bad Idea Team, we have Terry Teachout and Norman Lebrehct and Greg Sandow weighing in with:
“What would you have thought if Franklin Roosevelt had encouraged the Philharmonic to accept an official invitation [...]

Jumping Off A Cliff

If Wellsung, Soho The Dog, Steve Smith and La Cieca are doing it, then so is Miss Mussel.
It’s the birth opera meme. Courtesy of the Met’s archives, you can find out what was playing on the day you were born.
For those born in summer, when the Met is shut, the rule seems to [...]