Archive for April, 2010
CBC 152: PsychoBass
Yazan: Jason | 30 April 2010 | No Comments
Categories: bass, bass videos, humor
Tim Shaffer, one of my colleagues in the Elgin Symphony, put together this quite entertaining video spoof of the shower scene from Hitchcock’s Psycho. Check it out! Click to Watch
High schoolers – take your bass playing to the next level
Yazan: Jason | 30 April 2010 | No Comments
Categories: bass
It’s not too late to still apply for this summer’s National High School Music Institute, a summer music program in late June and July with a dynamite faculty (including me!) and a lot of great opportunities for taking your bass playing to the next level. I’ve covered the details of this program in depth at [...]
One more day to enter April Upton Pickup giveaway
Yazan: Jason | 29 April 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass
This Friday is the last day to enter the April raffle for a free Upton Bass Revolution Solo pickup. We don’t have a ton of entries at present, so if you enter then your odds are really good that you’ll get that pickup. The topic is simple–share with us what your favorite brand of string [...]
The American String Project featured in Strings Magazine
Yazan: Jason | 28 April 2010 | No Comments
Categories: bass, chamber music
We’ve featured music from the conductorless American String Project and its artistic co-director Barry Lieberman several times before here on the blog and on Contrabass Conversations. Check out this April 2010 article from Strings Magazine about The American String Project. It’s a great profile of this ensemble as they gear up for their eighth season. [...]
Oscar Levant plays Concerto in F
Yazan: Jason | 27 April 2010 | No Comments
Categories: videos
I recently played a concert with the Elgin Symphony where we accompanied old movie clips, something that I always enjoy. It’s fun to see the audience reacting to these movie clips with a live orchestra providing the soundtrack, and it’s always an exercise in concentration from the player’s perspective! The following clip (from the 1951 [...]
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