All Entries Tagged With: "young artists"

Review: Jugendsängerfest

A review of the Grand Philharmonic Youth Choir/ Jugendsangerfest concert on Saturday evening. In the printed version, the sub rather humerously translated “r’s” as “aaar’s”.
The Jugendsängerfest (Young Singer’s Festival for readers who don’t have a German dictionary to hand) is modelled on a local tradition from the late 19th century where choirs from [...]

Holiday Monday

It’s Thanksgiving weekend here in Canadia. Ours is a Pilgrim-free holiday, which is fitting considering that…well…people were coming to Canada to make a buck or ten trading fur and timber rather than trying to escape religious persecution. It is a time to be thankful for the harvest and with more than twenty million [...]

Late Night Maths

Consider this:
10,000 men play varsity baseball each year in American colleges.
1,000 men play professional baseball in the majors.
There is obvious great disparity in the numbers here and a proper analysis would require some maths skills far beyond Miss Mussel’s ability at this late hour.
Let’s suspend reality for a moment and imagine that MLB turns over [...]

Introducing: Michael Adair

Last night Miss Mussel was invited by some friends to hear a concert at the Elora Festival, so she did the appropriate thing and went along. On the program were baritones Russell Braun and Michael Adair as well as the Elora Festival Singers conducted by Noel Edison. The whole evening was ably accompanied [...]

Introducing: Nora LeChat

Miss Mussel has been reading classical music blogs long enough to know that people have been aware of this emerging young pianist for some time. Her fearlessness in programming aleatoric music and finely honed instincts for pushing the boundaries of tonality are truly remarkable.

In her second public performance, it is obvious that Nora has matured. [...]