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Click the player above to hear the next track in the Virtual Master Class Project. This is a recording of the first movement of the Vanhal Concerto. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by clicking on the ‘comments’ link below.

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Double Bass player, originally uploaded by airth_man.

Bass player from the show ‘The Rat Pack’.

Back from teaching. Firing up the Wii to do some gaming. #
Getting ready for a very early morning–I’ve got to drive Courtney to Milwaukee to catch a morning flight tomorrow. #
Just got back from driving Courtney to the Milwaukee airport. I’ll be driving to Milwaukee every day for the next couple of weeks. [...]

Bass Blog: Pledge of Allegiance
CSO bassist Michael Hovnanian explains the mysterious flag on his blog sidebar.
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Cute plugin for WordPress to add a picture of the date on a graphic. Looks nice!
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Bebo has the [...]

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At least someone’s having fun in this winter weather.

Tai Shan in the Snow, originally uploaded by Simba on 17th.

I’ve been taking advantage of a slower-than-usual work week to do a whole lot of internal blog restructuring. All of the blog’s resources and longer-term projects can now be found under the Features link. You can also simply type in doublebassblog.org/features to get to this index. I’m streamlining the Virtual Master Class, [...]

 

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Edmonton Symphony conductor and fellow Inside the Arts blogger Bill Eddins recently appeared alongside Philadelphia Orchestra double bassist Neil Courtney on Soundcheck from WNYC. They both weighed in on the New York Philharmonic’s recent decision to visit North Korea on their upcoming tour. I blogged about this earlier in the week, as did [...]

Here are some video excerpts from U.S. double bassist Jacy Cobalis that he compiled for his NJO Summer Academy (Netherlands) audition tape.
It’s really cool (and brave!) of Jacy to put these up on YouTube, and I hope that we’ll be seeing more of this as time goes on.
It’s also interesting to see festivals which require [...]

Bill Eddins posted a very insightful piece in defense of the New York Philharmonic’s recent decision to perform in Pyongyang, North Korea on his blog Sticks and Drones.  Though the hairs on the back of one’s neck may rise when envisioning this American orchestra  being welcomed by this creepy and repressive regime, I think that [...]

Pascal has only started this great project, which runs along the same lines as our Contrabass Conversations video lesson series with Andy Anderson or our Hans Sturm series on the Rabbath technique. This video is very concise and contains no dialogue, but I think that it is interesting and a good contribution to the [...]