Archive for October, 2010

Ranaan plays Bach

Yazan: Jason | 06 October 2010 | No Comments
Categories: bass videos

More from Ranaan in a non-Time for Three setting. Here he plays the Sarabande from the Bach Suite No. 1 for Cello:

Ranaan Meyer in Chicago

Yazan: Jason | 05 October 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass videos

Time for Three will be in town playing with the Elgin Symphony next week, and we’ll be arranging a master class with him. Details to follow. Don’t know Ranaan and Time for Three? Then check out this video profile of him, and be sure to listen to John Grillo and me interview him for Contrabass [...]

Musicians at Work forum tonight at Chicago Cultural Center

Yazan: Jason | 04 October 2010 | No Comments
Categories: music news

I was a panelist for one of these forums a few years ago. Really good events. Check out the session I was in (MP3) here. Monday October 4, 2010 – Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Blvd. (check board for room location) 6:00 – 7:30 pm For the start of the 2010-2011 season, we are [...]

Her desk, my desk

Yazan: Jason | 01 October 2010 | 3 Comments
Categories: photography

My wife used to be a full-time freelance harpist. Now she’s a medical student at the University of Chicago. Our lives are filled with quite different activities now, as illustrated by our two desks in our new place. Here’s mine, filled with happy things like books on teaching music to children: Hers, on the other [...]

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