Archive for January, 2009

Listen to Dragonetti’s bass with Vito Liuzzi

Yazan: Jason | 19 January 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: bass

Doublebassblog.org. contributor Vito Liuzzi has a new feature up on his double bass website allowing visitors to hear Domenico Dragonetti’s Gasparo da Salo double bass from 1590 (pictured here – image from Vito’s site). Vito has quite a bit of information about the double bass on his main site as well, including videos, photos, and [...]

Virtual Master Class – Haydn 31 – Candidate 11

Yazan: Jason | 16 January 2009 | 9 Comments
Categories: bass, VMC tracks

Click the player above to hear the next track in the Virtual Master Class Project. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by clicking on the ‘comments’ link below. We welcome you comments! Please take a moment and offer a bit of constructive advice for this musician.

Top-notch musical experience with National Arts Centre of Canada

Yazan: Jason | 16 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: auditions, bass, education, ISB

The following is a short excerpt from the E-Bass Line Newsletter from the International Society of Bassists. Receiving this newsletter each month is one of the many benefits for ISB members, including special rates on instrument insurance, the excellent journal Bass World, the paper edition of the Bass Line, and much more! Check out the [...]

Best of the ‘Viols in Our Schools’ GambaCast – Thomas Crecquillon – Or sus a cop, qu’on se resveille!

Yazan: Phillip Serna | 16 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Phillip Serna, podcasting, videos

  CEMC/ SoG – Thomas Crecquillon (c.1505-1557) – Or sus a cop, qu’on se resveille! 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, [...]

Chicago ACM blogging talk last night

Yazan: Jason | 15 January 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: blogging, technology

I was the presenter for the Chicago chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) last night. This organization gets some real “heavies” like presenters from Microsoft and Google to do these talks, so it was an honor to be asked….and a little nerve-wracking as well! I mean, I’m a blog guy. What can I [...]

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