All Entries Tagged With: "Vignettes"
Upstairs/Downstairs
The following story actually happened while I was working as a chambermaid at a four star hotel in Manchester city centre. What music students won’t do to pay the bills. I wish I was embellishing, but truth really is stranger than fiction here. [Warning: Things do get a little graphic towards the [...]
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 [...]
Overheard
Miss Mussel had her reviewer’s hat on last night and managed to overhear this delight:
Computer Engineering Student #1: I wonder if you can hire these guys?
CES #2: What guys?
CES #1: The orchestra…you know, for a party.
CES #2: What kind of party would you have an orchestra at?
CES #1: Dude. Any party. Like we’d be [...]
Me, You & Edith: Montreal Edition
Three final year horn players rent a car and drive six hours to Montreal to audition for grad school. It is February. In Quebec. Something the girls have failed to take into account when packing their suitcases in balmy Southern Ontario. It’s not a big deal. They were only going for two days [...]
“That’s A Buncha Airiadite Readin’ You’ve Got There”
Miss Mussel’s local library had a book sale this morning and for the bargain basement price of $9, she has become the owner of the following volumes:
Gray, Cecil. Contemporary Music. OUP, 1924.
Sullivan, JWN. Beethoven. Pelican, 1951.
Bonavia Hunt, HG. A Concise History of Music. Scribner’s Sons, 1903.
Nettel, Reginald. The Orchestra In England. Alden, 1946.
Guerber, H.A. [...]
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 [...]
So…we meet again
This note just dropped into the OM Inbox.
Dear Miss Mussel,
Thank you for your order of tickets from Perimeter Institute.
Your ticket(s) were confirmed on Sep, 27 2007 at 01:32pm
1 Stool Seating ticket(s) for The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields on September 27th 2007 at 7:30pm.
Miss Mussel’s thoughts on backless seating aside, this is set [...]
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