Archive for October, 2009

Cats and basses

Yazan: Jason | 11 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: bass, bass humor, cats, photography

Much hilarity ensues during a photo shoot for the 2010 International Society of Bassists Calendar:

The Linden Quartet – Superb Chamber Music!

Yazan: Jason | 10 October 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: performances, videos

No podcast this weekend (I need a break!), but I’d like to put the word out about an amazing series of chamber music videos that I published at WMYA.fm, one of the other projects that I help with. Last weekend, the Linden Quartet (2009 Gold Medal winner for the Fischoff Competition) made an appearance at [...]

Best of the ‘Viols in Our Schools’ GambaCast – William Byrd (1543-1623) – Where Fancy Fond for Pleasure Pleads

Yazan: Jason | 09 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Early Bass, Phillip Serna

DoubleBassBlog.org rocks in classical music site rankings

Yazan: Jason | 08 October 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: blogging

My friend and podcasting cohort John Grillo how highly ranked this humble little bass blog of mine is ranked in the overall classical music site rankings at invesp.com. Although I really couldn’t care less about rankings (easy to say when you’re highly ranked, I suppose, but I didn’t get into blogging to be popular and [...]

Snarky Potshots at Northwestern University Revisited

Yazan: Jason | 08 October 2009 | No Comments
Categories: education, photography

Not to beat a dead horse, but I happened to notice with some amusement that a Google search of the phrase “Northwestern University School of Music” comes up with my post titled Northwestern’s School of Music is Falling Apart… Literally! on the first page of results. Search for “Northwestern music building” and my snarky (but [...]

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