Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Boston’s WGBH Radio recently put out this announcement. Click the image to the left to visit their website:
Highlights from the 2006 International Keyboard Institute & FestivalEvery Tuesday Morning in November and December at 10amStreaming worldwide at www.wgbh.org/listenBroadcasting in New England on 89.7 FM
This July, award winning pianist and WGBH’s Classics in the Morning [...]

I recently discovered a great classical music blog. Jessica Duchen is a London, UK writer who regularly contributes to The Independent, BBC Music Magazine, and The Strad as well as other publications. Her blog is well-written and insightful and definitely worth checking out. Click the picture to check it out. [...]

This is a repository of one, two, and three octave major, natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor scales. Click the player for each scale to practice along with it. Click the name of the scale to download it as an MP3 file (right-click and choose “save as…”). There will be a [...]

News at Seven is a recent project launched by Northwestern University (my Alma Mater). This thing is really amazing. It is a completely automatic news generator. Using characters from Half-Life, the program creates a news feed by scraping news sites, blogs, videos and more to create a news program with absolutely no [...]

Apple has released some really excellent ads over the years. Their short-lived but very famous 1984 Superbowl ad is very memorable:

Steve Job’s keynote address announcing the Macintosh from the same year is also really great:

A more recent ad for the “sunflower” iMac is also cute:

Here is Apple’s appeal to idiots:

Finally, here are six 2006 [...]

I have another audition story I’d like to share. If you like this story, you may want to check out my stories about what to never bring into an audition, my disastrous audition for the San Jose Symphony, or any of my other gig tales.
A certain bassist (who shall remain nameless) in [...]

I just read a really good musician story on Dave Belden’s website. Dave is an actor, filmmaker, web developer, and violinist in the Chicago Sinfonietta, and he has a scary tale of his violin getting stolen in Europe. Check it out here.
Dave has designed websites for many prominent musical and theatrical [...]

The dress rehearsal for Amahl and the Night Visitors was last night, and it should prove to be a charming run. You can read my previous post for more information or visit the Ruth Page Center for the Arts website for ticket information.
Victoria Bond, the conductor for this performance, has had a very interesting [...]

This is a fun website and definitely worth checking out:

HOW RICH ARE YOU?

Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world.
Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. [...]

Michael Hovnanian of the Chicago Symphony recently started a bass blog. Michael was my teacher at Northwestern University for my undergraduate and graduate degrees, and it is really great to see him start a blog! I just added his blog to my Blogroll in the sidebar of this blog.
In addition to playing in [...]