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.

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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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It is now possible to do a very fast and accurate keyword search of the podcast, then start playing from any occurrence of that keyword. Simply enter your search term into the EveryZing widget on the left, and you’ll get what your looking for as quickly as if you did a Google search.

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