Schedule for Chicago Bass Festival 2-7-10
We’re getting quite close to the February 7 Chicago Bass Festival (be sure to register if you haven’t yet!). Here’s a schedule of the events we’ve got going on throughout the day. There will definitely be a few changes to this schedule prior to the event, but it should give you a good idea of the flow of the day’s activities:
Chicago Bass Festival Schedule (tentative)
9:30 am – Registration
10 am – Festival Opening Welcome
10:30 am
BG Hall: Exploring the sound of the bass through the chamber music of Jason Seed (performance)
-performance, no bass needed
Milwaukee Symphony and other local musicians will join Dan Armstrong in playing the chamber music of guitarist Jason Seed.
Andy Raciti, Scott Kreger, Jonathan Cegys, Dan Armstrong, basses
Hermine Gagné, violin, Tom Wright, viola, Jason Seed, guitar
Rm. 13: Orchestral Excerpts – an exploration (classical)
Rob Kassinger, clinician
-group class, bring your bass
-this clinic is suited for high school and college players
Repertoire TBA
Rm. 4: Master Class (classical)
Andrew Anderson, clinician
-master class, bring your bass if you would like to play for the clinician (not required)
Freehling: Bow Grip and Getting a Good Sound (young bassists)
Steve Reinfranck, clinician
MP3 and PDF resources for bassists
One of the problems of having over 3000 (!) posts on a blog is highlighting old content that is still of value to readers. I’m still figuring out how to best do this.
A reader emailed me recently mentioning that he found my MP3 sonatas and concertos page to be of value. I haven’t mentioned this page in quite some time. Feel free to dig through this and see if you find something useful. You can also check out our downloads page for more resources:
doublebassblog.org/features/downloads
Find me at IMEA in Peoria this week!
I’ll be spending the rest of the week in Peoria, Illinois for the Illinois Music Educators Association All-State Conference. I’ve got a bunch of bass students down there participating in All-State Orchestra and Band, and I’ll be listening to the bass auditions as well. If you’re a teacher or student and see me down there, come say hi!
4th World Bass Festival in Wroclaw, Poland
Check out the list of clinicians for this festival. Holy cow!
The 4th World Bass Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, Irena Olkiewicz, director, will be held August 8-14, 2010. The roster of classical and jazz guest artists presenting concerts and masterclasses include Tom Martin, Joel Quarrington, Rufus Reid, Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion, Catalin Rotaru, Kristin Korb, Hiroshi Ikematsu, Tadeusz Gorny, Eric Hansen, Stefano Scodanibbio, Thierry Barbe, Barry Green, Miloslav Jelinek, Irena Olkiewicz, Ekkehard Beringer, Jakub Olejnik, Bassiona Polacca, Petya Bagovska, Adam Skrzypek, Miloslav Gajdo?, Dan Styffe, Patrick Neher, Hans Roelofsen, Aleksander Mikolajczyk, Gunars Upatnieks, Esra Gul Atalay, Yun Xia Hou, Song Yi, Shen Dongwen, Andrzej Dechnik, Grzegorz Frankowski, Kazimierz Cyna, Dominik Schulz, Pawel Jablczynski, Robert Piekos and Ryszard Kusek.
There will be a one-day competition for classical and jazz bassists offering prizes and certificates, and the festival will also include exhibits by bass makers and double bass shops from England, Germany, France, Italy, the USA and China. Registration for players is 150 Euros or 100 Euros to audit, with an administration fee of 10 Euros. The entry fee for the competition is 25 Euros. The registration deadline is June 30, 2010. Accommodations in campus double rooms, a 5-minute walk from the Academy of Music, are 10 Euros per day (email Kazik Cyna for dormitory room reservations at sq6fhw@poczta.fm.)
For more information or to register for the 4th World Bass Festival in Wroclaw, go to www.worldbassfestival.pl or contact Irena Olkiewicz, wbf.irena@tlen.pl
Arts Addict merging with DoubleBassBlog.org
Several years ago (back in 2007, I think–man, does time fly!), I joined Drew McManus’ new cultural blogging network Inside The Arts, starting a new blog called Arts Addict. At the time, I was doing a lot of writing about freelancing, the orchestra business, and crazy stories about gigs I’ve played (all of which are archived here under my Articles page), and this new blog was dedicated to all the non-bass stuff I was writing about.
Ever since starting my new orchestra director life, I’ve found precious little time to write about the topics I was exploring on Arts Addict, and while I’m certainly not ruling out getting back into writing gig stories and reflections on a life in music performance (I still do both, though less frequently than I used to), my blogging is more community-based, podcast-focused, and dedicated pretty much to the bass. For now, at least.
Therefore, it seems to make sense to nix the Arts Addict blog and just incorporate DoubleBasBlog.org itself as a part of Inside The Arts, as the only blog in this network dedicated exclusively to one instrument.
At some point, I may return to the themes I explored on Arts Addict, but we’ll see. I’m finding a lot more career satisfaction in my “new life” than I did as a freelancer, which is great for my psyche and leaving me a lot happier at the end of the day. The only downside (if you can call it that) is that a happy, angst-free life doesn’t make for very interesting blogging! Instead of driving all night and making a few bucks here and there in ludicrous and shameful ways, I go to my great job and do things I like, then come home and hang out with Courtney and the cats. Much more enjoyable, but it doesn’t make for very interesting reading!
So… I’ll keep it to the bass for now. Videos, podcasts, “Top 10″ articles, and that sort of thing. And enjoy life. Nothing wrong with that, is there?
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