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CEMC/ SoG - Jean Le Bouteiller (fl.1530s) - Ce moys de May
From the May 18, 2008 Chicago Early Music Consort & Spirit of Gambo - a Chicago Consort of Viols Performance of ‘Bonjour, Mon Coer! - The Sublime 16th-Century French Chanson’ at Glenview Community Church, Glenview, IL. Featuring Gary Berkenstock, Crumhorn, Rackett, Recorders, & [...]

This is an ultra-quick note from an ultra-harried Jason (only three weeks of insane schedule left–meatier blogging to come very soon!) to let you know that Contrabass Conversations will be featuring interviews from Metropolitan Opera Orchestra bassists Jeremy McCoy and Dan Krekeler over the next month. Jeremy is the Assistant Principal Bass of the [...]

 
CEMC/ SoG - Rinalde del Melle (c.1554-c.1598) - Rossignollet qui chante
From the May 18, 2008 Chicago Early Music Consort & Spirit of Gambo - a Chicago Consort of Viols Performance of ‘Bonjour, Mon Coer! - The Sublime 16th-Century French Chanson’ at Glenview Community Church, Glenview, IL. Featuring Gary Berkenstock, Crumhorn, Rackett, Recorders, & Music Director [...]

 
CEMC/ SoG - Claudin de Sermisy (c.1490-1562) - Jouissance vous donneray
From the May 18, 2008 Chicago Early Music Consort & Spirit of Gambo - a Chicago Consort of Viols Performance of ‘Bonjour, Mon Coer! - The Sublime 16th-Century French Chanson’ at Glenview Community Church, Glenview, IL. Featuring Gary Berkenstock, Crumhorn, Rackett, Recorders, & Music Director [...]

 
Adrian Willaert (c.1490-1562) - 3 Chanson - Qui la dira, Perot, viendras tu aux nopces & La rouse du moys de May
From the May 18, 2008 Chicago Early Music Consort & Spirit of Gambo - a Chicago Consort of Viols Performance of ‘Bonjour, Mon Coer! - The Sublime 16th-Century French Chanson’ at Glenview Community Church, [...]

We’ll hit our 100th episode of Contrabass Conversations in the next few weeks–a significant achievement for any podcast! It’s hard to believe that I’ve interviewed, recorded, edited, and published nearly 100 of these buggers–it seems like I just got this podcast going recently, but the two year anniversary is fast approaching.
I decided to do [...]

Richard Sumarte (15??-after 1630) - Mounsiers Allman, the Manchester Lyra-Viol Manuscript (c1660)
From the October 14, 2007 Chicago Early Music Consort Performance of ‘The Lowest Trees Have Tops - The Music of John Dowland’ featuring Dr. Phillip W. Serna, bass viol.
Visit http://www.ChicagoEarlyMusicConsort.org/. To subscribe to the podcast and for more information on ‘Viols in Our Schools’ [...]

We’ll be featuring San Diego Symphony Principal Bass Jeremy Kurtz this weekend on Contrabass Conversations. Jeremy has been actively involved in the International Society of Bassists and was the catalyst for the recent John Harbison Concerto for Double Bass, which was jointly sponsored by many o rchestras across the country. Jeremy is also releasing his [...]

 

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We hope you enjoyed last week’s episode featuring the music of bassist Matt Weiner and ukulele player Del Rey. I think that this duo rocks, and I hope you enjoyed hearing those tracks from them.
This week, we’re featuring another all-music episode. I’m pleased to bring you some tracks from The Bass Gang, one of the [...]

I had a comment recently regarding Contrabass Conversations that really hit on something that bugs me about the bass world. The commenter (who left it anonymously–something that I find irritating) asked why I don’t feature more Europeans on the podcast.
For the record, I really want to increase the coverage of European bassists on the podcast., [...]