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Archive for January, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-30

Yazan: | 30 January 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Uncategorized

Just got home from a ridiculous drop in temperature – from 52 degrees to 15 degrees! # Watching Little Miss Sunshine with Courtney. # Doing some work in the home office before heading out for a double rehearsal with the Elgin Symphony. # We’re back to nasty, bitter cold here in Chicago after a brief [...]

links for 2008-01-31

Yazan: Jason | 30 January 2008 | No Comments
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On An Overgrown Path: Free music – so what’s new? Pliable discusses the merits of giving away free classical music when prices for recordings (at least in the UK) are already so low. (tags: overgrown path classical music blog download) The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to [...]

Reflections on my double bass teaching career

Yazan: Jason | 30 January 2008 | 7 Comments
Categories: advice, bass, education

I’ve written several times on this blog about both why I teach music and reasons why one might choose music teaching as a career.  I’ve also wrestled with misconceptions across the performer/educator divide, finding myself alternately surprised, shocked, and intrigued about the assumptions each camp has about the other. One woefully neglected and quite obvious [...]

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-29

Yazan: | 29 January 2008 | No Comments
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Watching the Simpsons with Courtney and trying to get sleepy – early morning tomorrow. # Taking a micro-break in the middle of a very busy day. Lately, I’m alternating between tons of activity & no activity each for day. #

links for 2008-01-30

Yazan: Jason | 29 January 2008 | 1 Comment
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Goodbye, Columbus Symphony Norman Lebrecht writes: “A colleague in Columbus, Ohio, has alerted me to a local downturn. The city is planning to shrink its symphony orchestra into a chamber ensemble, abolishing 22 positions and cutting the concert season by half. That, they say, ough (tags: lebrecht columbus symphony classical music blog) Adaptistration: When An [...]