All Entries Tagged With: "string quartet"
Review: Zapp Quartet
In today’s Waterloo Record
The Zapp Quartet from the Netherlands was in town Monday to give a concert at the Music Room with Canadian clarinetist James Campbell. The Quartet specializes in jazz repertoire, so the usual suspects for this combination (Brahms, Mozart and Weber) were given the night off in favour of John Scofield, Mike [...]
Quiz #9: The Day You’ve All Been Waiting For
[Drumroll] The Super Ultimate Winner of OM Quiz #9 is none other than Roger Miller. Unless the intertubes exist in the afterlife, it’s probably not this Roger Miller but nevermind.
Quiz #9: Clue One
Miss Mussel has decided against adding another track this week. She has confidence in your guessing abilities.
Have another listen and consider the following clues:
1) The composer was chronically unlucky in love.
2) He only wrote one string quartet
3) In the year the piece was written, a crash on the NY Stock Exchange started a depression.
Quiz #9
MORNING CAMPERS!!!!!!!
(Apologies for any obnoxiouness in this post. Miss Mussel gave up carbonated beverages of all sorts for Lent and is now flying high courtesy of the Coca-Cola company)
Here’s this week’s quiz. Miss Mussel hasn’t yet decided if she will add other movements for this one. Begging emails will be given some consideration.
Composer, [...]
Yellow Lounge Berlin
A delightful discovery today courtesy of Helen Pidd and The Guardian: Yellow Lounge in Berlin. The premise is classical music in a club, with the idea of Yellow Lounge thought up by Deutsche Grammophon’s Ruud de Sera. The first concert was in Februrary 2001 and since then, performers such as the Emerson and Faure [...]
As Abhorrent As The Worship Of The Golden Calf
Sir Donald’s backhanded defense of opera.
Doubtless there are some people to whom the use of music for illlustrating other things is as abhorrent as the worship of the golden calf was to the law-giver of Israel; but if you wish to break all the commandments of aesthetic philosophy at once you will infer that, because [...]
Music Toronto: Fall 2007
Ok, this is the last of the concert listings. A body can only be in so many places at once. All of these concerts take place in the Jane Mallett Theatre at the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts. They have a very imaginative pricing policy for those aged 18-35…you simply pay [...]
Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Music Society: Fall 2007
Miss Mussel’s concert diary is getting full but here are a few chamber music indulgences.
September
21st — Flatiron Trio; Brahms Trio No.2 Op 89; Shostakovich Trio No.1 Op 8; Beethoven Symphony No.2 arranged by composer
30th — Irshad Khan sitar
October
6th – Penderecki String Quartet; Szymanowsi Quartets 1 & 2; Beethoven Op 74 ‘The Harp’
31st — [...]
