Just when you thought summer was over, we've got another blogger review of Sobeys Symphony Under the Sky to check out! It's all about waiting for the moment, so it seems apropos to post now. Read Jim Tustian's blog post here.

And since we're on the topic, you can check out the winning photos and all submitted entries from our SSUTS photo contest by clicking here.

It seems that soon you may be able to get that Stradivarius sound on the cheap, using fungus-treated wood. This little tid-bit of an article from The Great Beyond explains how and why:

Fungal Violin Defeats Strad

Given our affinity for posting videos of puppet-made music, we couldn't pass on posting this video of Steve Martin playing dueling banjos with the Muppets (via retroist.com):

Here's an interesting little project someone came up with (via bitsandpieces.us). Essentially, they took a photo of birds on power lines (which so happened to look like a music staff) and composed a short piece based on the premise that the birds represent the notes on the staff.

Take a watch/listen:

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

Hopefully you've already read many of our bloggers reviews of Sobeys Symphony Under the Sky. Several posted multiple reviews, and a few posts are still to come, but I wanted to do a recap of posts so far, linking to specific posts:

Sparkling Classics: Sep 4, 2009
sparkling classics by COLLECTed
Sparkling Classics by The Choir Girl
Success Under the Sky by the edmontonian.
Music Making! by nine-letter word
My first (and not last) experience with the ESO by Brittney LeBlanc

Operamania: Sep 5, 2009
Opera mania! by nine-letter word

Hollywood Adventures and Romances: Sep 5, 2009
Movie Music night by nine-letter word

Simply Sinatra: Sep 6, 2009
Simply Sinatra by The Choir Girl
The Edmonton Symphony. by Girls and Bicycles
Sobeys Symphony Under the Sky (Concert Review) by Adam Snider

From Trumpets to Tchaikovsky: Sep 7, 2009
Trumpets to Tchaikovsky by The Choir Girl
Cannons and Solstices by nine-letter word

Plus, something new - a review of the festival in Chinese! To be honest, I don't know what it says (yet), but there are pictures too...

More links will come as the bloggers finish up their posts.

Mastermaq took some photos on Saturday night, so be sure to check those out, and then check out our photo contest group - as of writing, 134 pictures have been submitted.