Sarah Basel will be performing with the Kenosha Symphony Tonight!

will be performing with the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra tonight!
The program is:
“Russian Nights”
Stravinsky Suite No. 2
Glazunov Violin Concerto (Jeanyi Kim, Violin)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
You can find information at http://www.kenoshasymphony.org/

The Southwest Michigan Symphony will be on the Radio TONIGHT at 6:00 pm ET!

Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchesra’s performance of the March 20 program “American Creativity” will be broadcast on WAUS, 90.7 FM ON SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 AT 6PM (Michigan time).
If you are out of broadcast range of WAUS, you can also listen online at www.waus.org.
This was a fun concert that I participated in a few weeks ago. [...]

Sarah Basel will be performing the percussion parts for Little Women with the Artists of Concordia University

Sarah Basel, Rhapsody Percussion owner, will be performing in the percussion parts for Little Women…

Sarah Basel will be performing with Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra this weekend.

Rhapsody Percussion owner, Sarah Basel will be performing with the Southwest Symphony Orchestra in Benton Harbor, Michigan

Rhapsody Percussion owner to star in Independent Film “Chi-Town Pulse”

Sarah Basel is starring in Chi-Town Blues; a short independent film created by Doug Operzedek and www.independentthinking.us.
Chi-Town Pulse is a short, fictional story that follows the lives of two characters and their personal struggles.  John, a well-dressed, traveler with a love of blues music, dancing, women and booze, meets Sarah, a Chicago girl who has [...]

Performing the xylophone part for The Mother Goose Suite by M. Ravel

The other day I performed the xylophone part in movement III. Laidernonette from The Mother Goose Suite by M. Ravel. The piece is fairly straight-forward. I’ve prepared it for auditions in the past but haven’t performed it with an orchestra until this concert. The two sections to be concerned about are at rehearsal #7 to [...]

Rhapsody Percussion owner, Sarah Basel, to perform limited engagements of “Footloose” in Munster, Indiana at Theatre in the Center during the month of August.

I will be playing drumset in the musical “Footloose” during a few of the shows in August:
wed Aug 5 @ 2:00 pmThu Aug 6 @ 2:00 pmwed Aug 12 @ 2:00 pmThu Aug 13 @ 2:00 pmFri Aug 14 @ 8:00 pm
The Theatre website has some great videos of the actual performances! Check out their [...]

“Grease” — July 10-12, 2009

“Grease” — July 10-12, 2009
This weekend I will be performing the musical “Grease” on drumset withHinsdale’s BAM Theatre Group from July 10 – 12, 2009 at Nazareth AcademyHigh School. I highly recommend this performance as it is the best HighSchool performing group I have yet seen! The musical has been adapted fromthe Original Motion Picture [...]

Evanston Symphony on WFMT

On February 8, 2009 I performed with the Evanston Symphony Orchestra atPick-Stagier Hall on Northwestern’s campus. The concert was recorded byWFMT, a Chicago-based classical music radio station; 98.7. The concert willbe aired on the radio on February 27, 2009 between 3 and 7 pm. You can alsodownload the streaming audio from their website at www.evanstonsymphony.org:
Ives/Schuman
1. [...]

Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 played by Kenosha Symphony Orchestra. February 21, 2009. Part 2

Today’s rehearsal went very well.  The Kenosha Symphony has never sounded better compared to the few times I have played with them.  The conductor has really rehearsed this piece well, the orchestra members really sound great.  This piece has really come alive! 
I finally decided what I wanted to do at rehersal number 110 and [...]

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