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• 1. caroline benser  |  March 30, 2009 at 12:28 pm

  How much were the annual dues for the Society for American Music in 2008? thanks.

• 2. Ryan Raul Bañagale  |  April 1, 2009 at 12:08 pm

  http://american-music.org/membership/MembershipInformation.php

• 3. Steve  |  June 15, 2009 at 2:14 pm

  Hi

  My name is Steve Koscica and I own and operate a web site dedicated to the upright bass. While we do sell cellos and cello strings (and cases), our specialty and dedication to the upright bass is unrivaled. We’re one of the biggest bass dealers in the world! Personally, I have been a professional orchestral bassist for more than 25 years.

  We offer everything from smaller fractional upright (student) basses, plus basses in every possible price range, all the way up and past the $100k range. We sell our bass strings at the lowest prices in the world as well as just about every possible accessory. On our website, there are tons of informative articles about choosing the right kind of bass strings (can be confusing for a lot of people) and there are other informative articles about the different types and makes of basses.

  This summer we’re starting a new monthly newsletter and our subscribers will then be eligible to receive free giveaways. We’re not talking ‘cheapy’ little string winders or little packages of bass rosin, but really substantial gifts like bows, bow cases, string sets (the average set of bass strings are about $160) and we’ll even be giving away full sized, upright basses!! We need to make some noise here and what better way to do it than give away a bass!!! We’ve never heard of anyone else doing this, but we really want people to know more about us and well, giving away a bass (I think) should surely get some attention.

  Would you please link us on your blog/web site? I know your bass player readers would really appreciate learning about us and using our web site as a good information resource. We would sincerely appreciate being linked with the 2 keywords, “upright bass”. Which in turn goes to the url site: http://www.stringemporium.com/basscafe.htm.

  Again, I hope that you can find some room to put this simple text link on your site. As are linking partner we would also love to offer any specials on items that you (personally) would like to order. Basses, or anything else that we carry, including cellos, cello cases, violin cases etc…

  Thanks again. If you need any assistance or need more information, please email or call.

  Sincerely,

  Steve Koscica
  800-600-2689

• 4. zachwallmark  |  September 10, 2009 at 9:17 pm

  Hello Drew — Greetings! This is Zach Wallmark – we presented together at the “theorizing performance” conference at CUNY a few years ago (you did an interesting piece on Ives and his editor, if memory serves, and I did a paper on Andrew Hill). I hope this message finds you well.

  I’m writing because I’m a regular reader of your blog (I never comment, I confess) and I think you’re really on to something by using this informal format as a venue for music scholarship and related discourse. It’s an exciting frontier, and you’re at the forefront of it!

  At present, I’m working on a doctorate in Musicology at UCLA, and recently another grad student and I launched a blog with a fun premise – we’re going to read all of Richard Taruskin’s “Oxford History of Western Music” 10 pages at a time and blog on our experience, the text, historical questions, the philosophy of music, and every other issue the reading engenders. We’re calling it “The Taruskin Challenge,” and you can find us at: taruskinchallenge.wordpress.com. Think of it as a sort of “Julie and Julia” for music geeks.

  The blog was featured in the news feed of the AMS website and Twitter page today, and faculty from a number of universities are working to promote the concept to interested students and musicologists. We’re inviting anyone to read along with us, join into our discussions, and contribute. To this end, we’re actively courting readers/writers and trying to get the site linked on other respected blogs and websites. Since launching, we’ve settled into a groove of about 300 unique hits a day.

  I’d love to hear what both of you think about the project. If we’re added to your blog roll, of course the favor would be returned. Thanks so much for checking out the blog – I’m excited to hear back from you.

  With warm regards,
  Zach Wallmark zwallmark@gmail.com

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