All Entries Tagged With: "Norman Lebrecht"

Thursday Links

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 [...]

Thursday Links

“Continued research into procrastination should not be delayed…” NYTimes article. Research survey. (It’s for academia, so it’s educational and therefore not really a waste of time) Miss Mussel scored in the top 10 to 25%. You?
Phil Ford over at Dial M has a lovely post up on finding his dad in [...]

Friday Links

Loads of wonderful things to link to this morning. Sometimes it’s a shame that there aren’t more hours in the day, or at least less items that are irreparably labelled “need to be done now.”

First thing’s first. Jeremy Denk has a piece up at the NewMusicBox on what he what he likes in [...]

Christmas Tallysheet

Others have reported on the treasures they received on the Big Day, so, in aid of not being left in the dust by her fellow bloggers, Miss Mussel is happy to report that she has acquired the following:

both of which should come in handy for this whole writing for a living gig. Maybe not [...]

Just The Facts, Norm….Just The Facts.

A quick look at Chris Foley’s pagecast reveals that Norman Lebrecht’s book recall news has been met with some gleeful rubbing of hands, not to mention some very creative headlines.
Daily Observations has Lebrecht Gets Spanked, while Sequenza 21 offers some delicious commentary under The Norman Conquests.
For years, he’s been planting verbal IEDs along the classical [...]