PARIS IN STRING-TIME

Ten years with the Double Bass - a List of Bass Study Books

A useful listing of double bass studies and other instructional repertoire can be found online at the Médiathèque in Paris.  The series is called "10 Ans avec", and there are other listings for wind band, viola, and children's opera, with a harp listing promised shortly.

There, you see?  Bibliography sounds a dull word, but it's a gateway to lots of exciting stuff!

ESTA, and now JESTA - No Kidding!

ESTA stands for the European String Teachers Association - you knew that.

However, today the Whittaker Library received a pile of magazines entitled JESTA, which came as part of our subscription to ESTA.

A Survival Guide for Young String Players

http://www.jesta.org.uk/

JESTA - the magazine and the website - is 'a survival guide for young string players'.  If you encounter a young string player looking as though they might need survival skills, please do direct them to the website - or tell Junior Conservatoire members that there are currently 7 copies of the Summer 2014 issue of the magazine, at the Whittaker Library Issue Desk.

* The European String Teachers Association website is:- 

http://www.estastrings.org.uk/

 (Don't be fooled into thinking the website is the junior website without the "J" - that would take you somewhere very different!) 

Musical Limericks no.8 (The bottom end of the orchestra)

Image from MiltonGlaser.com

Cellist goes Continental

A cellist was going to France,
And excitedly  burst into dance;
A gavotte and a jig
In a strange-looking wig
Made the coppers look very askance!

Racy Bass

A lady who plays double bass

Has a strangely implacable face

If she missed a rest

You’d never have guessed

Though her heartbeat might silently race!

Flat footed

A timpani player from Troon

Tuned his timps imperceptibly doon;

When meant to play C,

He struck a low B;

“YOU ARE FLAT!”, yelled the maestro, “You loon!”

*****

Musical Limericks no.1 (flute, oboe, clarinet)

Musical Limericks no.2 (bassoon)

Musical Limericks no.3 (trumpet, horn)

Musical Limericks no.4 (Piper, by James Beaton)

Musical Limericks no.5 (tuba, trombone)

Musical Limericks no.6 (saxophone)

Musical Limericks no.7 (violin, viola)

Musical Limericks no.8 (cello, double bass, timpani)

Lucy In New Orleans

Lucy Robertson, Performance Librarian

Our Performance Librarian, bassist Lucy Robertson, is heading over to New Orleans for an orchestral librarians' conference in May.  Naturally, she'll be blogging her Letters from America.  Bookmark this page:-


http://LucyInNewOrleans.blogspot.com

Here's the website for MOLA (Major Orchestra Librarians' Association)