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Archive for October, 2007

Boguslaw Furtok performs Bottesini Gran Duo Concertant

Yazan: Jason | 31 October 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, bass videos, videos

We’ve featured the extraordinary double bass soloist Boguslaw Furtok many times on the blog in the past, and this clip (submitted by double bassist Ian Hallas ,who just performed the Bottesini Concerto with orchestra this week) is no exception.  Sha Ye (violin) and Boguslaw play a seven minute excerpt from this fun and virtuosic piece: [...]

Ira Gold interview and performance this week on Contrabass Conversations

Yazan: Jason | 31 October 2007 | No Comments
Categories: Uncategorized

We will be wrapping up the third and final part of our interview with National Symphony bassist Ira Gold this weekend, as well as featuring a recording of Ira playing some Bach.  Ira is an outstanding bassist and teacher and an extraordinary musical and technical thinker on the instrument.  Check out the first two parts [...]

Bass shot of the day – Tim Cobb with other classical music heavies

Yazan: Jason | 31 October 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, orchestra news, photography

Here’s a shot by Julieta Cervantes (for the New York Times) of Tim Cobb along with James Levine, John Harbison, Elliot Carter, and Milton Babbitt. Tim is the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra principal bassist. Read the accompanying New York Times story here. Thanks to bass blog reader Jon for passing along this link. Related Posts: Giant [...]

Jason Heath, meet Jason Heath

Yazan: Jason | 31 October 2007 | 6 Comments
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A few days ago, I logged into my Facebook account and discovered the following message: "Jason Heath would like to be friends with you…" Me….become friends with me?  I clicked the Jason Heath profile and, sure enough, it was another Jason Heath, only living in the U. K. instead of Chicago. Then I noticed his [...]

DaXun Zhang performs The Swan by Saint-Saens

Yazan: Jason | 30 October 2007 | No Comments
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Double bass virtuoso and University of Texas-Austin bass professor (and Contrabass Conversations musical guest) plays The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens in this excellent video: What a fabulous player! Related Posts: Contrabass Conversations #20: Lawrence Hurst interview and DaXun Zhang music DaXun leaves Northwestern University for UT-Austin DaXun tames the double [...]