Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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This is a post from double bassist from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music student Nicholas Hart. Nick will be contributing weekly posts to the bass blog about life as a music student in one of the nation’s most exclusive programs. I think readers will find this different perspective on the double bass world and the [...]

Contrabass Conversations Episode 11 just got wrapped up, and I think that you all will really enjoy this one. It is a series of tracks performed by double bassist Andy Anderson with commentary between each track. Andy uses a wide array of set-ups on these tracks, and he gives listeners some info [...]

Here is a video of double bassist Boguslaw Furtok playing the last movement of Frank Proto’s Sonata “1963″ in Spain last year.

Double bassist Matt Heller recently wrote a blog post about a masterclass he observed through an Internet2 broadcast at a New World Symphony event. For those who don’t know, Internet2 is a very high-speed network linking academic institutions (the New World Symphony is classified as such), and it allows for high quality video applications.
Check [...]

Check out this video. It shows a new service from Google Maps that some auto manufacturers are beginning to incorporate into their on board navigation systems. Find an address on Google Maps and choose the ’send to car’ option. Then, when you get in your car, you will have that address waiting [...]

Double bassist Amanda Rice-Johnston sent me some information about her upcoming recital. I mentioned it on this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode (coming out this Sunday), but I’d also like to give it a mention on the blog here. Here’s the info:

Bass Recital
Amanda Rice-Johnston
Temple UniversityRock Hall7:30 pmTuesday March 13th
Program
Bach Gamba Sonata #3, g minorMisek Sonata # [...]

John Grillo sent me a link to this story in today’s New York Times:
An anonymous donor has promised $90 million for the Frank Gehry-designed future home of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Fla., one of the largest gifts to a classical music institution.
The news was good for the orchestra — a professional-level [...]

I posted a fairly innocuous post last week about the Basso Moderno duo playing music written for them by Yoko Ono, and it has triggered a fairly amusing argument in the comments of this post. Many people don’t like Yoko Ono. Check out the discussion!

Finally, there are some orchestral jobs holding double bass auditions! Some of them are the same ones we’ve been seeing for the last few years over and over (Buffalo Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony) but some are new. Here are details:Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Principal Bass
Tentative Audition Schedule as follows:
Sunday, May 20, 2007 - Preliminary AuditionsMonday, May [...]

Matt Wengerd has been writing some really interesting posts about music and the bass over on his blog 104 Weeks. I’ve always enjoyed Matt’s writing–it is interesting to read his experiences at different jazz events (like his post about the IAJE conference in New York City this fall), and his posts are always full [...]