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Here is the next track in the Virtual Master Class Project. This is a bass solo called Barriolage. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by clicking on the ‘comments’ link below the player.
Sometimes these players take 10-20 seconds to load, so give it a little time to play if it doesn’t start right [...]

This is a video of Colombian virtuoso Juan Gregorio Baquero and the Bogotá´s Philharmonic Orquestra. Irwin Hoffman is the Conductor, and the production values for the concert are quite high. It looks like it was lifted off of Colombian television or a DVD. Great close-ups of the double bass and the orchestra.

Double bassist and Contrabass Conversations guest John Grillo sent me a link to orchestrafacts.org, a compilation of salary information, structural deficits, and vacancy rates for orchestras in the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians (ICSOM).
While I would like to see some statistics for the last several seasons (the most recent statistics are for the [...]

 

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Hope you all enjoy episode 13 of Contrabass Conversations! This week we are featuring music of double bassist Donovan Stokes and an interview with Weldon Anderson. Enjoy!

Show Notes
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This episode features the first part of an interview that
Jason recently did with double bassist Weldon Anderson. [...]

Here is the next track in the Virtual Master Class Project. This is the bass solo from the first act of Verdi’s Rigoletto. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by clicking on the ‘comments’ link below the player.
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This video was most likely taken on a cell phone, so be sure to take some dramamine before watching if you get motion sickness easily. It does give folks a glance of the great music making of this duet if you’ve missed their recent tour, however.

Check out this great sketch from Rami Efal that I found on Flickr!
Rami writes:
Full house in Carnegie Hall, where the New York String Orchestra together with Hillary Hahn performed Bach’s “Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra in D Minor” and Beethoven Symphony No.7. But it was Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” that made me raise [...]

Check out this broadcast at wgbh.org/classical:
Live Opera is in the Air and on the Web as WGBH 89.7 FM Presents an Exclusive Live Broadcasts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s FidelioOn Sunday, March 25 at 2pm, WGBH 89.7 FM celebrates Boston’s rich tradition of opera with an exclusive live broadcast of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s [...]

Illinois State University professor and double bassist Bill Koehler just released a new book called A Guide to the Developmental Processes of Improvisation and Composition. Here is a description of this book from Bill’s website. Visit that site to learn more about this new project. You can order a copy of the [...]

Double bassist Jacque Harper sent me a link to this story from BBC News featuring bassist Samir Basim Yousif. Samir is one of only four professional bassists currently in Iraq. Here is an excerpt from the story (this quote is from Samir himself):

There is a huge difference between 1996 - when [...]