Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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I’ve been playing backstage at the Lyric Opera of Chicago for this season’s production of La Traviata.  This is a wonderful gig–a real blast to play.  As an added bonus, the offstage part for this specific opera only requires our participation for the first few minutes of the opera, so I’m driving back north [...]

Listening to Garrison Keillor and playing Bioshock. Kind of a weird combination… #
Watching Family Guy and trying to wake up. #
Heading out for a run. The Chicago weather is around 25-30 degrees today. Saturday it’ll only be 5 degrees for the high! #
Doing some blogging, e-mail, and that kind of business [...]

Déjà vu
Another great post from CSO bassist Michael Hovnanian: “Sometime before dawn Sunday morning I woke up in a cold sweat. A quick check of my schedule confirmed my fears; we did play the Tchaikovsky 4th symphony last season.”
(tags: michael hovnanian double bass blog chicago symphony)

Found - thousands of happy new ears
Great success with podcasting [...]

Have you ever seen a dog with such a horrified expression?  From the always entertaining icanhascheezburger.com:

Aaron J. Brown and his colleagues at the Chicago School of Violin Making have begun an exciting new bass construction project that we’ll be documenting here at doublebassblog.org.
Aaron is working on producing a copy of Chicago Symphony bassist Dan Armstrong’s 1731 Camillo Camilli double bass.  Here’s a shot of Dan at the Chicago School of [...]

Playing Bioshock. I sense that I’m nearing the end of this game. #
Hanging out with some sleepy cats and reading some new blog posts from my favorite sites. #
Reading the paper and drinking tea before heading out to go teach. #
Hanging out with the cats at home and doing some blogging for the coming [...]

» China blogger beaten to death Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.
This grim story comes from CNN.com via Dvorak Uncensored.
(tags: dvorak uncensored blogger beaten china)

Why schools should exclusively use free software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Free software also gives users the freedom to cooperate with each other, to lead an [...]

After receiving several requests for this feature, we have added an international calendar of double bass events, with detailed information, dates, links, and the like for each event. Feel free to submit any events you’ve got coming up and we’ll list them here. There’s a form at the bottom of the page, or [...]

Hanging out downtown before playing for six minutes at Lyric. #
Just got home from Lyric. Making a late night pizza for Courtney and me - the cats get nothing (but cat food). #
Heading for bed. Almost done with this week’s podcast. #
Listening to podcasts and getting ready for a day of teaching. #
My [...]

The Problem with Podcasting Isn’t Downloads
Interesting reflection on one person’s journey through the world of podcasting. Kind of a frustrating tale, actually–it makes me want to avoid the services he brings up (besides, Wizzard Media, which I use).
(tags: Advertising Audio Business media news online podcast podcasting support Video)

Podcasting Is Not Dead - It Is [...]