The Friday Informer: Just what is a bell on a bobtail, anyway?

The Friday Informer: Just what is a bell on a bobtail, anyway?

Critiquing the critics, holiday gift ideas, and one track you must hear before the millionth Muzaked holiday carol drives you over the edge.

Written By

Molly Sheridan

Photo of the Week [via soho the dog]
  • As they sharpen their pencils and write those “best of the year” lists, New York City turns the tables and critiques the critics.
  • If even after a decade of music school, your family still has no clear conception of exactly what it is that you do, say it with a homemade holiday gift.
  • Before the millionth Muzaked performance of the Nutcracker Suite drives you to off the department store Santa, sample this arrangement for bicycle parts.
    [via music for maniacs]
  • Still, if traditional holiday tunes seem too old hat for your adventurous disposition, leave it to the new music crew to make even the old standards more obscure and intellectual.
  • The Grinch may have stolen Christmas, but this Time Warner CEO stole an entire music catalog. (Okay, maybe all iPod owners are criminals after all.)
[Via musicalchairs.info—the website for classical musicians]

Have you heard?

  • Wondering if you’re hardwired to hear the pretty colors yourself? There’s a test for that.
  • Feel like you don’t get Xenakis? Perhaps there’s a deeper reason it all seems Greek to you.
    [via soho the dog]