Weekly Wrap-Up
I spent the past two weeks performing with the Grant Park Symphony. This has been a real treat for me, both musically and personally. The GPSO is a great ensemble, and we played a lot of excellent repertoire, including Beethoven 2, Mahler 5, and the Firebird Suite. Bass blog readers will actually be familiar with many of the bass players in this section. Most of them have contributed ideas, photos, videos, or interviews to the blog at some point. Check out a funny photo of this bass section trapped in an elevator here. (elevator photo and Millennium Park photo courtesy of John Floeter)
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This week we released the second part of our interview with Guy Tuneh plus music from Brian Bromberg and Nam Chi Vu. Guy’s interview has been received with overwhelming enthusiasm from many listeners. We have received hundreds of comments from people expressing their positive reaction to Guy Tuneh, and this feedback is greatly appreciated! Check out the episode here (CBC #33).
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We also featured our second Contrabass Conversations video episode,this time with the excellent bassist Ranaan Meyer. Ranaan performed the Czardas by Vittorio Monti on his episode, and it was a real thrill to get to feature him on video! We have another video episode from Ranaan coming up here shortly as well as the rest of our audio interview with him. For now, check out the video episode here and the audio episode here.
Click here to check out our first CBC video episode featuring none other than Guy Tuneh!
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We also released the third part of This Crazy Business this week, this time focusing on how addictive music performance can be. Check out the complete series here–we’d love to know your reactions.
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Here is a summary of this week’s posting:
- CBC 33: Guy Tuneh interview 2, Brian Bromberg, and Nam Chi Vu
- Musical life in the “zone”
- Some people freak when their content is scraped, others see opportunity
- EveryZing rocks…..in the wackiest way possible
- Guy Tuneh conclusion this week on Contrabass Conversations
- Bis die Flut kommt das Spardosen-Terzett
- Lance Rose rocking out on the upright bass
- This Crazy Business Part 3 – Music is Addictive
- New! – Search the podcast
- This has nothing to do with bass
- Jason on the Engaging Brand podcast
- Colin Corner on Contrabass Conversations
- Pops concerts from the orchestra perspective
- Time for Three performs Czardas
- Moutin Reunion Quartet photo
- Ranaan Meyer plays Czardas on CBC
- Basshenge
- Eric Hochberg performs with the Lyle Mays Quartet
- That’s my cone!
- Contributor articles soon available through Articles link
- Improvisation skills – post from Bill Harrison
- Double bassist Art Davis dies at 73
- Last week’s poll results and this week’s poll question
VMC Master Class Tracks
- Beethoven 9 (version 2)
- Beethoven 9 (version 1)
- Vanhal Concerto mvt 1
- Bottesini Concerto mvt 1 (version 1)
- Bottesini Concerto mvt 1 (version 2)
- Bach Suite No. 3 Allemande
- Beethoven 5 mvt 3
- Eccles Sonata mvt 2
- Barriolage
- Verdi Rigoletto
- Mendelssohn 4 mvt 4
- Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
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