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Archive for January, 2009

Gary Karr plays Paganini Moses Fantasy

Yazan: Jason | 26 January 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass videos

Here’s a vintage recording of Gary Karr performing Paganini’s Moses Fantasy–a staple of his performing career. I know that Gary’s recording inspired me to learn this piece when I was in high school, and I’m sure that he did the same for many other bassists as well. You can check out several very cool Contrabass [...]

David Pogue on Twitter

Yazan: Jason | 26 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: technology

New York Times tech journalist David Pogue is a recent Twitter fan, with several reservations: I’ll admit that, for the longest time, I was exasperated by the Twitter hype. Like the world needs ANOTHER ego-massaging, social-networking time drain? Between e-mail and blogs and Web sites and Facebook and chat and text messages, who on earth [...]

Rinat Ibragimov Master Class

Yazan: Jason | 25 January 2009 | 13 Comments
Categories: bass videos

You have to have been living under a rock not to have heard about the YouTube Symphony project. This is likely to be the first of many online collaborative projects like this, and I can only think that it helps the world of classical music. London Symphony principal players have been posting videos to help [...]

Illinois in Winter

Yazan: Jason | 25 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: travel

I’m taking advantage of a rare non-snowing day (and a balmy 30 degrees, no less!) to walk around and lament about winter. On a brighter note, I just got an awesome new Flip Mino video cam, which I’m using to shoot these snowy little clips.

Jeff Weisner and friends in Adalman Series Recital

Yazan: Jason | 23 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass, events

National Symphony orchestra and Peabody Institute faculty member Jeff Weisner (also a collaborator here on this blog) will be performing with fellow Peabody faculty members on February 4, 2009 at 8 p.m. for the Adalman Artist Recital Series. Details are available through the following link: http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/3582?detail=event&id=5623 The program includes works by Peabody composition faculty Kevin [...]