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Archive for January, 2010

Jeff Weisner Double Bass Recital

Yazan: Jason | 14 January 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, events

National Synphony bassist Jeff Weisner will be giving a recital February 3rd at the Peabody Conservatory. Jeff is on faculty at Peabody, and he was recently a guest on Contrabass Conversations (link). Check out this interview with Jeff to listen to him play and learn more about him, and be sure to check out this [...]

Upcoming Hawaii Contrabass Festival

Yazan: Jason | 13 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: bass, events

[sigh]… If only I could make it out for this event. One of these days my wife and I will make it back to Hawaii: The 6th Biennial Hawaii Contrabass Festival will take place March 21-28, 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii. An intensive week of major bassitude features group lessons, masterclasses, bass choir, lecture-demos and concerts.2010 [...]

Chicago Bass Ensemble at the Chicago Bass Festival

Yazan: Jason | 12 January 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: bass, events

The Sunday, February 7, 2010 Chicago Bass Festival is taking place in Bennett Gordon Hall at Ravinia, Highland Park, Illinois. Full information and schedule at www.chicagobassfestival.com. Visit now to register: there’s a special price available until January 15 (this coming Friday). Register now! We’ll be profiling some of the clinics and performing ensembles which will [...]

Support the Bradetich Foundation

Yazan: Jason | 12 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: bass

I’ve known double bassist Jeff Bradetich ever since high school, and he is, without a doubt, one of the most influential forces in my learning how to play the bass and my desire to pursue it as a career. Here’s a great shot (found on Facebook, probably from 1993 or so) of me (front right) [...]

Make No Small Plans

Yazan: Jason | 11 January 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: advice

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. [...]