All Entries Tagged With: "organ"

Aural Advent Calendar: Day 17

It’s 1977, Jimmy Osmond is still a treble and powder blue was the wardrobe colour of choice for the Mormon Tabernacle costume department.
Heady days in Salt Lake City, folks.
With the whole Osmond family on hand to close out the show, sporting outfits in complementary shades of the focal colour, that year’s Christmas [...]

Review: Battle Of The Organs

In today’s Waterloo Region Record

It was billed as a battle of epic proportions.
In the red corner, an enormously powerful Kney confident that 37 years experience would be enough to secure a win.
In the blue corner: the young Makin anxious to make his mark and show the old guy how it’s done.
Giant screens were set up [...]

Birthday Wishes For The Artful Codger

Whether you like him in a powdered wig and livery or looking as if he should be on his way to a Celtic match it impossible to imagine what Western classical music would be without its elder statesman Johann Sebastian Bach. Sure, there are older composers (Lully,

Pub Quiz For Classical Music Nerds: Answers

Take the original quiz.
String Theory
(fill in the blanks and name that string player)
1. Jascha Heifetz (violin)
2. Martin Beaver (violin, Tokyo String Quartet)
3. Lionel Tertis (violist)
4. Mischa Maisky (cello)
5. Eliot Fisk (do guitarist’s count as string players?)
Order Up
Arrange the following in ascending order of composition date.
Quartert For The End of Time , Four Last Songs, The [...]

Got A Hot Date Tonight

Sure, he’s a little older than what Miss Mussel usually goes for but he’s supposed to be some sort of brilliant musician or something, so she can work with it.
On his profile he answered “a gaggle” in the Have Kids box, which is slightly worrying but most people have what, 2 or 3 [...]

Can Someone Please Pass The Kleenex?

There looks to be a bit of a meme going around related to music that makes one misty-eyed. After a little thinking, it seems that, for Miss Mussel, the culprit is Mahler, followed by Brahms.
Mahler’s Second Symphony was the most recent instance. The TSO performed it in the spring and the [...]