Archive for June, 2008
Short Takes for 6/24/08
Yazan: Jason | 24 June 2008 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, Contrabass Conversations, education, music news, orchestra news
MYA Saxophone Quartet featured on From The TopThe What’s Cookin’ Saxophone Quartet, made up of Midwest Young Artists members Amanda Peterson, Mira DeJong, Kateri Tumminello, and Joshua Plotner, was recently featured of NPR’s program From The Top. I do a lot of work with this metropolitan Chicago program–I host their weekly podcast at WMYA.fm, and [...]
Ripping Off Your Teachers
Yazan: Jason | 23 June 2008 | 10 Comments
Categories: auditions, crazy gig stories, education
I’ve got story for you, and I promise it’s true! When I was getting started as a freelance musician at the tail end of my masters degree, I was quaking in my boots about my future prospects. After all, I was regularly buying CDs at Borders and Barnes and Noble from former Northwestern doctoral music [...]
CBC 84: Hans Sturm and the Rabbath technique
Yazan: Jason | 21 June 2008 | No Comments
Categories: bass, Contrabass Conversations, student resources, technique, Uncategorized
We’re featuring something a bit unusual for this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode. Ball State University bass professor and International Society of Bassists president Hans Sturm has been featured several times on the podcast in video episodes, and this week we’re featuring Hans discussing the fundamentals of the Rabbath technique left hand positioning system. This dialogue [...]
Hans Sturm discusses the Rabbath technique on this week’s podcast
Yazan: Jason | 20 June 2008 | No Comments
Categories: bass, podcasting, student resources
We’re featuring something a bit unusual for this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode. Ball State University bass professor and International Society of Bassists president Hans Sturm has been featured several times on the podcast in video episodes. This week, we’re featuring audio of a session that Hans and I did concerning the Rabbath technique back in [...]
New look for doublebassblog.org
Yazan: Jason | 19 June 2008 | 5 Comments
Categories: bass, blogging, technology
I’ve done a major overhaul of the doublebassblog.org user interface recently. Why? Well, I like to do some sort of design change every six months or so–it’s simply good web design protocol, and it keeps things from getting stale. Plus, web technology moves pretty darn fast, and there are a ton of new features that [...]
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