Yazan: Phillip Serna | 28 April 2008 | No Comments
Categories: bass, bass luthiers, Early Bass, education, Phillip Serna
The following is a guest post from Double Bass Blog contributor Phillip W. Serna. Check out Phillip’s recitals and interviews on his Contrabass Conversations page, and visit him online at http://www.phillipwserna.com/. Enjoy! Contrabass Conversations and the Double Bass Blog are continues is series on early bass performers. It will highlight many different perspectives on early [...]
Yazan: Jason | 26 April 2008 | No Comments
Categories: bass, bassist/composers, Contrabass Conversations, podcasting, student resources
We’re continuing our chat (check out part on on episode 73) with Michigan State University and Interlochen Arts Academy double bass instructor Jack Budrow this week on Contrabass Conversations. In addition to helping place students in major orchestras across the globe, Jack has had a very distinguished performance career as a former member of the [...]
Yazan: Jason | 25 April 2008 | 8 Comments
Categories: humor, technology
As a blogger, podcaster, and all-around new media guy, I have found that most people assume that I am on a Mac. I frequently have people ask me if I’ve installed Leopard yet, how to perform a specific task in iMovie, or tips on assembling podcasts in GarageBand. This is a pretty reasonable assumption–a majority [...]
Yazan: Jason | 25 April 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: humor, technology, videos
….at least, that’s what this internal Microsoft video would like one to believe. Microsoft has a decades-long reputation of releasing utterly inane internal videos. I hope that they were kidding with this one, but they probably weren’t. By the way, check out the short-haired woman in the audience. She really likes Vista Service Pack 1!
Yazan: Jason | 24 April 2008 | No Comments
Categories: bass, blogging, podcasting
My fellow podcasting cohort John Grillo recently put out a post on his blog ClassicalMusicNews.tv about the Princeton Symphony’s season finale. He also gives a little background on the orchestra and describes the current music director search the orchestra is currently undergoing. Check out John’s new post here. Wrapping up our Jack Budrow interview This [...]