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Patty from oboeinsight made some recent posts highlighting a story about auditioning on Charles Noble’s blog Daily Observations. Check out the story–it is about his recent audition for the Seattle Symphony, and it is a great document the whole complicated and stressful process.
This is a great “insider” classical music blog. I just [...]

For years I worked as a coach and lesson teacher in the public schools of suburban Chicago. I ran sectionals, did some chamber music coaching, and taught a gaggle of kids during and after the school day. Although I was pretty hesitant about doing this work when I started freelancing, worrying that [...]

 

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The next episode of Contrabass Conversations is now available for your listening pleasure. This episode features a talk with Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist Andy Anderson and music from the double and electric bass band Gunnelpumpers. Enjoy!
CBC 17 Show Notes

Episode Length: 47:12
Release Date: 4/22/07
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Want to hear some real busking? This is a video featuring IRIS Orchestra cellist Eric Stephenson and beatbox flute player Greg Pattillo which has been circulating YouTube like wildfire. The New York Times is planning a feature on Greg’s flute playing, which should prove to be very interesting.

Eric and Greg are great [...]

The Commercial Appeal put out a feature today on the IRIS Orchestra and its new status as an official nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. You can read the article for more information on how this new organizational structure will impact future endeavors.
Some of the facts quoted in the article are not entirely accurate, so take some [...]

The last of the “Three Bassists” of TAFTO (Roger Ruggeri and I were the other two authors), the Cleveland Orchestra’s Henry Peyrebrune writes a great article on the delicate balance between asking and coercing friends to orchestra concerts, and he points out that the social conventions of the event cause more discomfort in the novice [...]

Double bassist Jean-Yves Bénichou recently sent me this item about the increased difficulties and hassles that European double bassists are encountering while traveling with their basses on trains. In Europe, trains tend to be used as the main method of transportation for musicians (much like planes in the United States), so these developments are [...]

Double bassist Doug Johnson has a great gig story that I’d like to share with blog readers. Doug is an active double bassist in the Chicago area, and he performs with ensembles raging from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to the excellent bass and percussion band Gunnelpumpers.
Here’s Doug’s story. Enjoy!_______________
So I have freelanced as [...]

I’ve got a bunch of IRIS Chamber Orchestra posts this morning (as you can see)–if folks are around their computers at noon today (U.S. Central time zone), visit WKNO online, the Memphis metro area’s classical music radio station website, to hear a live broadcast of the IRIS Chamber Orchestra in rehearsal. This is an [...]

The IRIS Chamber Orchestra will be performing a program of Brahms and Rachmoninov this Saturday (4/21/07) evening at the Germantown Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. Click here for ticket and location information. The concert will feature the Fourth Symphony and Variations on a Theme of Haydn by Brahms and the Rhapsody on [...]