Archive for July, 2009

CBC 128: David Allen Moore interview

Yazan: Jason | 18 July 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass, Contrabass Conversations

We’re featuring an interview with Los Angeles Philharmonic bassist and University of Southern California bass instructor David Allen Moore on the podcast this week. David also teaches bass during the summer at the Domaine Forget program in Quebec. In this interview, we chat about his early years on the instrument, teachers that have influenced him, [...]

Best of the ‘Viols in Our Schools’ GambaCast – CEMC – Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690) – Non c’e che dire la voglio cosi

Yazan: Jason | 17 July 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Early Bass, Phillip Serna

Scholarships still available for bassists at Opus Chamber Music Camp this August

Yazan: Jason | 16 July 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, events

My colleague Judith Hanna will be teaching at the Opus Chamber Music Camp at Illinois Benedictine University (in Lisle, IL, located in West Suburban Chicago) the first week of August this summer. Judith writes: I will be coaching and conducting at OPUS Chamber music camp 1st week in August (at Illinois Benedictine University. See linke [...]

A new member of the Contrabass Conversations family!

Yazan: Jason | 16 July 2009 | No Comments
Categories: events

I’d like to congratulate Contrabass Conversations co-host John Grillo, who is the proud father of a new daughter! This is wonderful news, and I wish him all the best with this newest member of his family.

Joseph Schwantner and the compositional process

Yazan: Jason | 16 July 2009 | No Comments
Categories: videos

In early 2009, Midwest Young Artists hosted a discussion with composer Joseph Schwantner, who was in town for the Chicago premiere of his piece “Chasing Light…” with the Evanston Symphony. In the following excerpt from this discussion, Joseph chats about his Percussion Concerto, which the MYA Symphony has performed in an earlier season. This video [...]

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