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Archive for January, 2009

Best of the ‘Viols in Our Schools’ GambaCast – Roland de Lassus – Soyons joyeux

Yazan: Phillip Serna | 30 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Phillip Serna, podcasting, videos

  CEMC/ SoG – Roland de Lassus (1532-1594) – Soyons joyeux From the May 18, 2008 Chicago Early Music Consort & Spirit of Gambo – a Chicago Consort of Viols Performance of ‘Bonjour, Mon Coer! – The Sublime 16th-Century French Chanson’ at Glenview Community Church, Glenview, IL. Featuring Gary Berkenstock, Crumhorn, Rackett, Recorders, & Music [...]

More fun with the iPhone

Yazan: Jason | 29 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: humor, photography

It doesn’t take much to keep me entertained these days. The extremely fun app I used to warp my picture is called Face Melter and is a sure way to keep non-iPhone friends endlessly entertained. This is a good representation of how I often feel after a long day of teaching!

Thierry Barbé plays Per Questa Bella Mano

Yazan: Jason | 29 January 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass videos

Here’s a great video of fellow International Society of Bassists board member Thierry Barbé playing Per Questa Bella Mano with bass vocalist Ugo Rabec and the Opera de Paris Orchestra:

YouTube Symphony – Original LSO Performance

Yazan: Jason | 28 January 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: events, technology, videos

You know, the more I poke around the YouTube Symphony channel, the more I like the idea. The world’s first internet symphony really is a cool idea, and it’s indicative of things to come for our art form. Is it gimmicky? Sure–but that’s not the point. This is a prime example of musicians collaborating online [...]

Airlines are the enemy of bass players

Yazan: Jason | 28 January 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: bass, bass videos, travel

My former student Ian Hallas (now a bass student at the Colburn School of Music) had a pretty bad experience flying back to Los Angeles after winter break this year. This is the sort of experience that we bassists fear–good thing it didn’t turn out even worse for Ian. We are completely at the mercy [...]