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Archive for October, 2007

Dean Ferrell to perform in Berlin on November 6

Yazan: Jason | 30 October 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, bass videos, videos

The amazing bassist Dean Ferrell will be doing a solo bass performance in Berlin on Tuesday, November 6th, and any bassists , students, teachers, and fans of amazing double bass performance art should consider attending if they can make it. We blogged an hour-long video of Dean Ferrell performing as Captain Tobias Hume (footage from [...]

John Grillo on Oktoberfest – New World Symphony tradition

Yazan: Jason | 30 October 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, blogging, orchestra news

Bass blog and Contrabass Conversations regular contributor John Grillo recently wrote a post on his new blog project ClassicalMusicNews.tv about the New World Symphony’s Oktoberfest a tradition that he created when he was a fellow there. John writes: A long standing tradition has been brewing at the New World Symphony for 8 consecutive years. On [...]

Beethoven’s black violinist – post from AfriClassical

Yazan: Jason | 30 October 2007 | No Comments
Categories: blogging, music news

William J. Zick wrote an interesting post on his AfriClassical blog earlier this week, stating: The rumor that Beethoven is Black just won’t go away, in spite of the lack of any real evidence. What most people are unaware of is Beethoven’s real relationship with the Black violinist George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860). Today I [...]

Notes on Hans Sturm Rabbath technique video

Yazan: Jason | 30 October 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass

Yesterday we released the first part of our video about the Rabbath left hand position system, and we’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback already.  We’ve got a couple more parts to this video coming out later on this this week, so stay tuned for more about the Rabbath technique. I neglected to mention in [...]

Hans Sturm and Jason Heath talk Rabbath technique – video

Yazan: Jason | 29 October 2007 | No Comments
Categories: bass, bass videos, education, student resources, videos

International Society of Bassists President and Ball State University Bass Professor Hans Sturm and I got together over the weekend and filmed a chat about the Rabbath left hand position technique.  Hans does a great job explaining the concepts behind this technique, and I hope that folks out there will benefit from this video.  It [...]