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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 ffm.bio/phillipwserna

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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 26/09/2026
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Paul Atreides in Dune: The Sleeper Has Awakened!
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 23/09/2026
Bonds... James...
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 23/09/2026
THIS 👇
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 23/09/2026
Recital Raises Funds for Restoration @PhillipWSerna.com & Kevin Vaughn play Baroque instruments (Sofia Zaracho for The Record) record.goshen.edu/arts/recital... #GoshenCollege #GCMusicCenter #GoshenCollege #ViolaDaGamba #Viol #EarlyMusic
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 23/09/2026
🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘 www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
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A new opera tells Tlingit history in the Tlingit language
"Kutulagaaw: The Tlingit-Russian Battles" tells the story of the 19th century battles between the Tlingit tribes of what is now known as southeastern Alaska and the Russians.
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 23/01/2026
We are definitely enduring Biff's dystopian alternate timeline... #BackToTheFutureII #MakeItStop
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a man writing on a blackboard with the word past written on it
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 12/09/2026
Performing Life, Death & Resurrection: Exploring the Past, Present & Future of the #Viol for #GoshenCollege students, faculty & community members. Excited for tonight's Reflection & Restoration: A Musical Offering in memory of the #September11th attacks on its 25th anniversary. #ViolaDaGamba
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 08/09/2026
#StarTrek60 Always have to repost this. It's aspirational & inspirational! | It's Going to be Okay. Do what I did - listen to the #NPR story www.npr.org/sections/the..., then read this: theoatmeal.com/comics/plane (via @theoatmeal.bsky.social #TheOatmeal) #TheOatmealOatmeal) @NPR.org #StarTrek
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'The Oatmeal' Remembers 'Star Trek' Creator's Heroic Plane Crash Rescue
Many people were moved last week by an online comic on a site called "The Oatmeal." It was illustrated and written by Matthew Inman, and it's titled "It's going to be okay."
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 08/09/2026
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Reflection and Restoration: A Goshen College Musical Offering with Rosalyn Troiano, Phillip Serna, and friends | GC Music Center
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 07/09/2026
Broke... #ResidentEvil Bespoke... #PresidentEvil™
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Requiem Resident Evil
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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Post your getaway vehicle
A VF-1 Valkyrie Veritech fighter from MACROSS aka ROBOTECH: THE MACROSS SAGA, seen here in Guardian Mode, and if you were seven years old in 1985 this was the hottest shit you'd ever seen and you'd seen X-Wings, man.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/08/2026
President Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center led to a boycott and, now, a two-year closure for renovations. "After two years, the Kennedy Center may end up right back where it started: in a self-imposed quagmire," writes Post critic Philip Kennicott.
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Closing the Kennedy Center may be the best of bad options
Renovations are welcome. But after two years, the Kennedy Center may end up right back where it started: in a self-imposed quagmire.
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 12/08/2026
Love that I share a birthday with Sue the T-Rex @ the Field Museum!
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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Toshiro Mifune in Seven Samurai (1954) Directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 24/05/2026
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Saaaaa aaaaao LSD VHS
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 04/08/2026
What a great time with the #DoubleBass students this year at the #OPUSChamberMusicCamp at #NorthCentralCollege! What an honor serving alongside such distinguished & excellent faculty! #OPUS #Bass #Grateful
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A.I. thinges fall apart The data center kan not holde Olde fashioned love Ys loosed upon the worlde
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 02/08/2026
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 28/07/2026
Opening this year's OPUS Chamber Music Camp at #NorthCentralCollege with a faculty #Baryton trio alongside Danny Seidenberg, viola & Daryl Silberman, cello! #OPUS #Haydn #EarlyMusic #HistoricalPerformance #HistoricallyInformedPerformancePractice #HIPP
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 27/04/2026
#Monday #Mood...
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 01/05/2026
#Remixed & #Remastered! ffm.to/eastfancya2n... #NowPlaying/ #NowStreaming from Midweſt415 on ALL #Music #StreamingServices: Phillip Serna performing I as well as thou, Fancy à2, No.2 by Michael #East (ca​.​1580​-​1648). Watch in 4K: youtu.be/47qjSMDc5w4?...
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 17/07/2026
Here we are...
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 17/07/2026
I feel seen...
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 15/07/2026
#CurrentMood...
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 27/04/2026
👇 Who is the absolute worst composer or musician who could meet this challenge of the current political moment? #RhetoricalNonRhetoricalQuestion... * makes jazz-hands gesture *
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 08/05/2026
Remember, remember... my coffee this morning... #MourningCoffee™
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 20/05/2026
This... 👇
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 15/07/2026
More from our #Chicago #Heatwave this week!
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 14/07/2026
After 20 years, one chapter ends & another chapter begins...
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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Belgium won, so we're required to listen to @phillipwserna.com's album of viol music by Leonora Duarte (1610-1678), who was from Antwerp midwest415.bandcamp.com/album/leonor...
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Leonora Duarte (1610-1678) - The Complete Sinfonias à5 for Viol Consort, by Phillip W. Serna, Treble, Tenor & Bass Viols
7 track album
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 30/06/2026
Cooling off during the #Chicago #Heatwave this week!
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 17/06/2026
I feel seen...
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pressreleases.urbanmilwaukee.com @pressreleases.urbanmilwaukee.com · 13/05/2026
Danceworks Performance MKE, Early Music Now, and Aperi Animam Unite for Groundbreaking World Premiere: Terra Papagalli
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Danceworks Performance MKE, Early Music Now, and Aperi Animam Unite for Groundbreaking World Premiere: Terra Papagalli
 
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NPR @npr.org · 26/05/2026
The legendary jazz saxophonist, who revolutionized the art of improvisation, died Monday at his home in Woodstock, N.Y. n.pr/3Q2hMWr
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Sonny Rollins, colossus of the saxophone, has died at 95
The legendary jazz saxophonist, who revolutionized the art of improvisation, died Monday at his home in Woodstock, N.Y.
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Eye of Mysterioso @mysteriphoto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert
Kaleidoscopic image of Frank Herbert’s Dune
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 24/05/2026
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Saaaaa aaaaao LSD VHS
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 24/05/2026
🤘🤘🤘🤘
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 22/05/2026
My 1st film in a movie theater...
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 20/05/2026
This... 👇
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 20/05/2026
#UnpopularOpinion: No one actually cares about your, mine, or anyone's else's opinions - popular, unpopular or orherwise.
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No One Cares Animated Logo Parody
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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I don’t really care about the personal convictions of a man in a… button-up bomber jacket and a zipper shirt? What?
Crop of the Rockwell “Freedom of Speech” painting highlighting the man’s attire
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 17/05/2026
This! 👇
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 14/05/2026
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Fire Beeker Muppet
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 13/05/2026
Repost = Endorsement
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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I wrote about Luna Composition Lab, Missy Mazzoli and Ellen Reid's amazing mentoring program for teenage female, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming composers: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/a...
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For 10 Years, They’ve Been Building a Future for Female Composers
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 12/05/2026
I don’t feel enough people realize that the dark haired guy looking up all the way on the top left, the one whose eye is basically all you can see, is Norman Rockwell putting himself in this painting.
Norman Rockwell’s famous illustration of Freedom of Speech
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WBEZ @wbez.org · 11/05/2026
Nearly 60% of arts workers in Chicago report earning less than $40,000 per year, according to a new survey of more than 1,200 people across a variety of arts disciplines.
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About 60% of Chicago arts workers report earning less than $40,000 annually
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WBEZ @wbez.org · 07/05/2026
The Chicago Sinfonietta will pause artistic and educational activities at the end of its 2025-26 season this month amid financial challenges, the organization announced Thursday. A spokesperson confirmed that the group will lay off its seven administrative staffers.
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Chicago Sinfonietta to pause programs until 2027 and lay off staff amid financial challenges
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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Chicago Sinfonietta will pause artistic and educational activities after the end of its current season in order “to stabilize and grow its finances,” the orchestra announced Thursday. to.wttw.com/4tlDmCI
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Chicago Sinfonietta to Pause Concerts, Lay Off Staff in Effort to ‘Stabilize and Grow’ Finances
For nearly 40 years, the Chicago Sinfonietta has worked to advance equity in classical music by expanding access for underserved communities and developing diverse talent. The institution will undergo...
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 08/05/2026
Remember, remember... my coffee this morning... #MourningCoffee™
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