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- Job Opening – Marimba Productions, Inc.
- August 2010 Percussion Auditions
- July 2010 Percussion Auditions
- June 2010 Percussion Auditions
- Day 1: Chicago Drum Show May 15, 2010
- Rhapsody Percussion now brings you HingeStix by Sam Ruttenberg
- Rhapsody Percussion at Chicago Drum Show 2010
- Mutes now available in Black!
- Sarah Basel will be performing with the Kenosha Symphony Tonight!
- May 2010 Percussion Auditions
- The Southwest Michigan Symphony will be on the Radio TONIGHT at 6:00 pm ET!
- April 2010 Percussion Auditions
- Sarah Basel will be performing the percussion parts for Little Women with the Artists of Concordia University
- PASIC 2010 Drumset Competition (reposted from pas.org)
- Sarah Basel, Rhapsody Percussion Owner will be in London…
- Phil Stanger Oral History of Frank’s Drum Shop–Oral Histroy from NAMM.org
- Updated Percussion Auditions for March 2010 – Substitute Auditions
- Sarah Basel will be performing with Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra this weekend.
- Congratulations to Jacob Nissly on wining the Principal Percussion position for the Detroit Symphony.
- Jauvon Gilliam to make debut as National Symphony Orchestra timpanist – washingtonpost.com
- Congratulations to Brian Flescher on wining the Principal Timpanist position for the New World Symphony.
- Update to March 2010 auditions
- Rhapsody Percussion owner to star in Independent Film “Chi-Town Pulse”
- March 2010 Percussion Auditions
- Ruth Underwood and Dweezil Zappa talk about Frank’s fondness of mallet instruments.
- Articulation in Timpani Performance by Al Payson (part 5 of 5)
- YouTube Highlight: Ed Shaughnessy vs. Buddy Rich Drum Battle on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- New Product: Teardrop Pro-Triangle Beater
- Rhapsody Percussion to attend Vandercook College Day of Percussion 2010
- February 2010 Percussion Auditions
- IMEA Conference a success!
- Rhapsody Percussion will be attending the Illinois Music Educators Association (IMEA) Conference in Peoria on January 28-30.
- Articulation in Timpani Performance by Al Payson (part 4 of 5)
- In memory of Ed Thigpen (1930 – 2010)
- Shipping charges updated!
- Percussion Education Positions January 2010
- January 2010 Percussion Auditions
- Articulation in Timpani Performance by Al Payson (part 3 of 5)
- Openings for Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor and Instructor at the University of Trinidad and Tobago
- Percussion Auditions for December 2009
- Articulation in Timpani Performance by Al Payson (part 2 of 5)
- Performance Opportunities on E-Bay???
- Update to November Percussion Auditions 2009
- Percussion Auditions for November 2009
- Performing the xylophone part for The Mother Goose Suite by M. Ravel
- Jeff Vick wins the Principal Timpini position with the Billings Symphony Orchestra Percussion Audition Results — Press Release Date May 7, 2009
- Articulation in Timpani Performance by Al Payson (part 1 of 5)
- New World Symphony Percussion Audition Results 2009
- Introducing the new Rhapsody Percussion Student Mallets!
- October 2009 Percussion Auditions
- Jeb Kulevich recently won the section percussion position with the Malaysian Philharmonic
- Welcome to the New Rhapsody Percussion Website!
- September Percussion Education Jobs
- Newly Won Jobs Archived from 2007 – 2008
- September 2009 Percussion Auditions
- August 2009 Percussion Auditions
- Rhapsody Percussion owner, Sarah Basel, to perform limited engagements of “Footloose” in Munster, Indiana at Theatre in the Center during the month of August.
- Auditioning on drumset by Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz (drummer with the “Weird Al” Yankovic Band)
- July Percussion Auditions
- “Grease” — July 10-12, 2009
- Robert Klieger won both Canton Symphony Orchestra and West Virginia Symphony Orchestra section percussion positions.
- Great Website Resource for Private Teachers
- Rhapsody Percussion to attend Chicago Vintage Drum Show 2009
- You Tube – Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3
- Rhapsody Percussion at Whitewater Day of Percussion March 7, 2009
- Evanston Symphony on WFMT
- Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 played by Kenosha Symphony Orchestra. February 21, 2009. Part 2
- You Tube Symphony
- January Percussion Audition Listings
- Richard Weiner – Cleveland Orchestra Percussionist
- To roll or not to roll, part two -or- Daniel Barenboim trills on piano
- Porgy and Bess December 16, 2008
- December Audition Listings
- Selections from the Nutcracker Ballet with Evanston Symphony Orchestra December 7, 2008
- To roll or not to roll
- Cirque du Soleil and the tubaphone with the Southwest Michigan Symphony November 2, 2008
- Lincoln Portrait with the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra October 11, 2008 8:00 pm
- John Burnett Orchestra October 4, 2008
- Technology is awesome!
- New World Symphony September 27, 2008 7:30 PM
- Welcome to Rhapsody Percussion’s Blog!
Sarah Basel is a professional percussionist in the Chicagoland area. She has a masters in percussion performance from San Francisco Conservatory where she studied with Jack Van Geem (principal of San Francisco Symphony). She also received a Bachelor of Music Education which enabled her to study with Ed Harrison (principal timpanist of Lyric Opera of Chicago) from Concordia University in River Forest, Illinois. Sarah has been both a performer and a music educator for the past 16 years.