CBC 106: Dan Krekeler interview


 
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We’re featuring an interview with Metropolitan Opera Orchestra bassist Dan Krekeler this week on the podcast. John Grillo of classicalmusicnews.tv and I co-interviewed Dan, which was particularly cool since we’ve both known Dan for many years. I played with Dan in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and John went to Indiana University with him as an undergraduate. It’s great to see an old friend have such great professional success, and it was a lot of fun to catch up with Dan and hear about his experiences on the road to a major orchestral position.

In our conversations about audition prep, Dan brings up musician coach Don Greene, and I realized that we’ve never actually talked about Don before on any blog posts or podcasts. This is surprising, since I’m a big fan of Don’s concepts and strategies for successful auditioning, so we’ll have to delve more into that topic at a later date.

If you’re in the mood to learn about the world of opera bass playing, these episodes from our archives would be a good start:

January 31, 2009 · Filed Under Contrabass Conversations, bass, opera

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Bass Blog TV for 1/30/09

Here’s a new project that I’m experimenting with–Bass Blog TV. I don’t know how frequently I’ll be able to put these video/screencast jobbers out, but they’re a lot of fun to do, so I’ll try to keep them going.

Links:

January 30, 2009 · Filed Under bass videos, blogging

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New posts at MostlyBass.com

Hi everyone, Peter Tambroni here from MostlyBass.com.

I haven’t written a post here at Double Bass Blog in a while as I’ve been busy with life and work! But I have put up some interesting new posts at MostlyBass.

Check out:

The student’s bass is too large – what do I do?

Thoughts on Shar’s Franz Hoffmann bass versus a Samuel Shen.

Well, mostly about the bass.

Thanks and happy reading!

January 30, 2009 · Filed Under Peter Tambroni

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YouTube Symphony bass audition videos – Dittersdorf

Patty from oboeinsight inspired me to blog the video auditions for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra–she’s doing the same thing with the oboe videos. Here we go with a 3rd movement Dittersdorf rendition:

January 30, 2009 · Filed Under bass videos

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Bass pic of the day – Miranda Sykes

Miranda Sykes playing double bass for Show Of Hands on the Radio 2 stage at Cambridge.

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January 30, 2009 · Filed Under bass, photography

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