Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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The following is an instrument search request from Erik Dorset at the  Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin:
Dear Early Music Friends,
Quite simply, this is a desperate call for your help. No- not money, but a double bass is needed.
As we at the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin are making preparations for our next tour [...]

Home from teaching and trying to figure out what’s getting screwed up on the server end for the blog. Ahhh, the joys of tech troubleshootin #
Just got off the phone with tech support. Trying to resolve server issues and tweak things to load the blog faster. #
Doing some morning blogging and working [...]

Adaptistration: An Adaptistration Poll: Strategic Planning
If you get a chance, go over and take an Adaptistration poll on what level of input should be included in an organization’s strategic planning process.
(tags: adaptistration classical music management blog)

Funding Wordpress | Blog Oh Blog
WordPress (my content management system) receives a whopping $29.5 million in venture capital funding. [...]

Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist (and Contrabass Conversations guest) Greg Sarchet sent me a link to what is pretty much the greatest bass video of all time. I’m not sure whether to put an ‘explicit’ warning on this one–let’s just say that you may want to skip this one if you have delicate sensibilities.
For [...]

This is a post from double bassist from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music student Nicholas Hart. Nick will be contributing weekly posts to the bass blog about life as a music student in one of the nation’s most exclusive programs. I think readers will find this different perspective on the double bass world and the music [...]

While surfing around online doing some promotional activities for the Contrabass Conversations podcast, I happened to stumble upon the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s MySpace page. Although finding an arts organization on MySpace is not exactly a rare occurrence, I was struck by just how well-conceived and organized the content, layout, and structure was [...]

We hope you all enjoyed the conclusion of our interview with Pittsburgh Symphony principal bassist Jeff Turner on the podcast last weekend. It was really great to get a chance to sit down and interview Jeff, and there is a wealth of valuable knowledge for the current or aspiring professional bassist contained within [...]

ClassicalMusicNews.tv blogger John Grillo has started a new series titled The Art of the Deficit examining how various orchestras function in the modern world and the sort of missteps or miscalculations that frequently get these organizations into financial hot water. Thinking about the recent financial crisis and organizational meltdown in the Jacksonville [...]

This photo features the Lyric Opera of Chicago bass section onstage beneath the imposing countdown clock from John Adams’ opera Doctor Atomic.

(pictured left to right: Greg Sarchet, Aventino Calvetti, Mike Geller, Andy Anderson, Brian Ferguson, and Collins Trier)
This opera features a particularly challenging extended double bass solo.  You can check it out below (click the [...]

Home from a long day of teaching and playing. #
Blogging like a fool, cozy in the home office and out of the horrific cold. #
Up doing some blogging, writing, and research for the next few podcasts. #
Listening to ‘This American Life’ in the home office and working on some fresh projects for the week. #
Heading [...]