Best of the ‘Viols in Our Schools’ GambaCast – CEMC – Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) – Clori mia, Clori bella
YouTube – Real Men Don’t Rehearse– Doctor Recommended
Former Contrabass Conversations guest Justin Locke is the author of a very funny book titled Real Men Don’t Rehearse. Justin has created several tongue-in-cheek YouTube video commercials for this book. Here’s one that I find particularly funny:
[From YouTube - Real Men Don't Rehearse-- Doctor Recommended]
Bass Barbeque at Martin Sheridan’s place
Double bass luthier Martin Sheridan has moved back to the United States after spending some time enjoying the good life down in Mexico. Martin has been an active luthier in metro Chicago and Iowa for many years, and I have had many students purchase instruments from him over the years. Read more
YouTube – Von Thord – Titaniclåten
Check out the stylings of Von Thord, a very talented and cool Swedish cello and bass duo. Swedish bassist Anders Olsson forwarded me the link for this:
The Best (and Worst) University Websites
I was recently poring over a mailing list from the International Society of Bassists, attempting to locate an actual double bass faculty member with actual working contact information. My task: find out if there’s a bass instructor, get his/her email address, and send them a personal note to come to the International Society of Bassists convention this summer. This project resulted in me being parked for about 12 hours looking at hundreds on university websites. After staggering out into the sunlight, rubbing my bloodshot eyes and trying to get my circulation flowing again, I decided that this lengthy hunt needed a blog post all its own.
What I Found
My findings? In short, university music department websites are some of the most non-standardized sites I’ve ever encountered on the web. It’s as if each individual school has completely reinvented the wheel with their sites, with no regard to solutions others have come up with. Very few (if any) design conventions can be found among the pack. The quality of a school’s website seems to have no relation to the size or prestige of the school; in fact, some of the best websites I found were from schools with tiny music departments consisting of three or four music faculty members, and some of the most headache-inducing sites came from major universities with 40,000-50,000 students.
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