links for 2008-01-24

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...

Duets with, er… yourself

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...

The Funk – post from Nicholas Hart

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...

Lyric Opera of Chicago does new media right

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...

Lynn Seaton on Contrabass Conversations this weekend

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...