Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba
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#DoubleBass #Baryton & #ViolaDaGamba | Founder Midweſt415 | Perf. Black Tulip, ViolMedium, et al | Fac. Valparaiso University, Elgin Community College, Wisconsin Lutheran College, et al https://ffm.bio/phillipwserna
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What a wonderful week celebrating the life of composer Orlando #Gibbons (bap.1583-1625) #Gibbons400 & the passing of John #Dowland (1563-1626) #Dowland400 at the 2025 Evelyn Dunbar Memorial #EarlyMusic Festival @ #NorthwesternUniversity! Thank you to my fellow violists da gamba! #ViolaDaGamba #Viol
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die-hard | adjective | strongly or fanatically determined or devoted
Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie
Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
die-hard | adjective | strongly or fanatically determined or devoted
Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie
Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie
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Celebrate any time of the year with #AlbanBerg's #Wozzeck...on ICE! 'Weh! Weh! ich wasche mich mit Blut! Das Wasser ist Blut...'
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Celebrate any time of the year with #AlbanBerg's #Wozzeck...on ICE! 'Weh! Weh! ich wasche mich mit Blut! Das Wasser ist Blut...'
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November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You Should Stop Texting On Your iPhone Or Android Phone Now
You Should Stop Texting On Your iPhone Or Android Phone Now
This week has changed the game for text messaging — in a bad way.
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December 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The never-ending cycle...
I watched a talk on Vincenzo Galilei (1520–1591) who had written a treatise on all that was wrong with modern music and how much better the previous generations had done.
Nothing changes
Nothing changes
December 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The never-ending cycle...
Faculty musicians from #NorthCentralCollege's annual #ExploreTheSound concert kicking off the #HolidaySeason. #HappyHolidays!
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Faculty musicians from #NorthCentralCollege's annual #ExploreTheSound concert kicking off the #HolidaySeason. #HappyHolidays!
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This meme has a wild school finance history: this guy’s name is Jim and he’s voting against the town of Arlington, VT selling a school bond to rebuild their local school in 1940. The building had burned down, but Jim didn’t want to pay more taxes. He was the only one voting no.
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This meme has a wild school finance history: this guy’s name is Jim and he’s voting against the town of Arlington, VT selling a school bond to rebuild their local school in 1940. The building had burned down, but Jim didn’t want to pay more taxes. He was the only one voting no.
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Preach!
The older I get the more I understand why the grinch wanted to stay home with his dog.
a green cartoon character with a blue background
ALT: a green cartoon character with a blue background
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November 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Preach!
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December 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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What a wonderful week celebrating the life of composer Orlando #Gibbons (bap.1583-1625) #Gibbons400 & the passing of John #Dowland (1563-1626) #Dowland400 at the 2025 Evelyn Dunbar Memorial #EarlyMusic Festival @ #NorthwesternUniversity! Thank you to my fellow violists da gamba! #ViolaDaGamba #Viol
December 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Star Trek movies ranked.
1. II : The Wrath of Khan
2. VI : The Undiscovered Country
3. IV : The Voyage Home
4. III : The Search for Spock
5. I : The one with Voyager
6. V : I don’t even know what this one is called
1. II : The Wrath of Khan
2. VI : The Undiscovered Country
3. IV : The Voyage Home
4. III : The Search for Spock
5. I : The one with Voyager
6. V : I don’t even know what this one is called
December 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Seeing it in the theater with my twin brother.
On its birthday, what's your favourite part of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?
December 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Seeing it in the theater with my twin brother.
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Disappointed in my alma mater...
Opinion | Northwestern denies it, but there's a cost to caving to the White House. https://chroni.cl/3MBiK9W
Opinion | The Dishonesty of the Northwestern Deal
The university claims it preserved academic autonomy. It didn’t.
www.chronicle.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Disappointed in my alma mater...
Well...
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Well...
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Our Bloomington Bach Cantata Project perfromance of Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV100 @ St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Bloomington, IN is now on YouTube: youtu.be/hdBscWPk_x8
Program: tinyurl.com/BBCP-BWV100
Annotated translation: bachcantatatexts.org/BWV100
Program: tinyurl.com/BBCP-BWV100
Annotated translation: bachcantatatexts.org/BWV100
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Our Bloomington Bach Cantata Project perfromance of Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV100 @ St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Bloomington, IN is now on YouTube: youtu.be/hdBscWPk_x8
Program: tinyurl.com/BBCP-BWV100
Annotated translation: bachcantatatexts.org/BWV100
Program: tinyurl.com/BBCP-BWV100
Annotated translation: bachcantatatexts.org/BWV100
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December 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Logging on...
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Logging on...
It's the Hasslein curve...
The original "Planet of the Apes" is a Christmas movie. In the first ten minutes alone it has like 2,000 Christmases.
December 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It's the Hasslein curve...
"Now I have a machine gun, ho ho ho..." youtu.be/kA5x65aydhc #HappyHolidays
Die Hard Christmas Book with Steve Blum (Sideshow & Insight Editions)
YouTube video by Sideshow Collectibles
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December 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Now I have a machine gun, ho ho ho..." youtu.be/kA5x65aydhc #HappyHolidays
The never-ending cycle...
I watched a talk on Vincenzo Galilei (1520–1591) who had written a treatise on all that was wrong with modern music and how much better the previous generations had done.
Nothing changes
Nothing changes
December 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The never-ending cycle...
Post you from a different era - #RememberingFitzgeralds, which was demolished in #Houston, TX. Shadows of Light had our 1st gigs at Zelda's (the downstairs stage of Fitzgerald's) back in the 1990s.
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Post you from a different era - #RememberingFitzgeralds, which was demolished in #Houston, TX. Shadows of Light had our 1st gigs at Zelda's (the downstairs stage of Fitzgerald's) back in the 1990s.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Every. Single. Day.
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Every. Single. Day.
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Enjoy an encore presentation of Black Tulip's 'Court, Convent & Stage: Redefining the Early Modern Woman,’ celebrating Francesca #Caccini, Élisabeth Jacquet #DeLaGuerre, Isabella #Leonarda, Barbara #Strozzi & others on #LiveFromWFMT @ 8pm (CST) on #WFMT 98.7FM & online
Enjoy an encore presentation of Black Tulip's 'Court, Convent & Stage: Redefining the Early Modern Woman,’ celebrating Francesca #Caccini, Élisabeth Jacquet #DeLaGuerre, Isabella #Leonarda, Barbara #Strozzi & others on #LiveFromWFMT @ 8pm (CST) on #WFMT 98.7FM & online
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The multinational, Chicago-based, early music group, Black Tulip, brings together Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano (the Netherlands), Mirja Lorenz, recorders (Germany), Phillip W. Serna, violas da gamb...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Enjoy an encore presentation of Black Tulip's 'Court, Convent & Stage: Redefining the Early Modern Woman,’ celebrating Francesca #Caccini, Élisabeth Jacquet #DeLaGuerre, Isabella #Leonarda, Barbara #Strozzi & others on #LiveFromWFMT @ 8pm (CST) on #WFMT 98.7FM & online
Enjoy an encore presentation of Black Tulip's 'Court, Convent & Stage: Redefining the Early Modern Woman,’ celebrating Francesca #Caccini, Élisabeth Jacquet #DeLaGuerre, Isabella #Leonarda, Barbara #Strozzi & others on #LiveFromWFMT @ 8pm (CST) on #WFMT 98.7FM & online