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Archive for July, 2006

Lincoln Park in July

Yazan: Jason | 26 July 2006 | 2 Comments
Categories: photography

My fiancee Courtney and I spent all of Monday walking around Lincoln Park in Chicago. Here are a few shots of our walk. This is the Lincoln Park Conservatory. This great building was completed in 1895, and you can definitely tell its age up close. It has four large halls and is free to the [...]

Some more shots of Williams Bay this past weekend

Yazan: Jason | 25 July 2006 | No Comments
Categories: photography

Here are a few final shots of the Music by the Lake concert series that I did this past wekend. I will be up in Williams Bay, WI again in two weeks to play with the Three Irish Tenors. Here you can see the extreme slope of this campus. The golf carts were for taking [...]

Chicago Reading Orchestra – Reader article

Yazan: Jason | 25 July 2006 | No Comments
Categories: orchestra news

Michael Goode of the Chicago Reading Orchestra was recently interviewed this week in the Chicago Reader by Deanna Isaacs. The article caught my attention because it was referring to a piece written by composer Bjorn Berkhout. Bjorn was my roommate in college at Northwestern University in Chicago. He has taught at Loyola University and Northwestern [...]

The Student Prince performances

Yazan: Jason | 23 July 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Uncategorized

Our first peformance of The Student Prince by Sigmund Romberg was last night in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. The piece is very charming, and the cast and orchestra sound very good. Last year this festival was hit with record high temperatures, and one of the bass players actually passed out from heat exhaustion right before the [...]

New Blogroll links

Yazan: Jason | 23 July 2006 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, blogging

I am adding a couple of new sites to my Blogroll. Rockabillybass.com is a site maintained by Shawn Burrell. It is an excellent site about rockabilly bass in general, with interviews, forums, gear talk, lessons, and the like. There are also set up tips and rockabilly links. One lesson covers the Nashville Number System, and [...]