Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Last year the Milwaukee Symphony became the first American orchestra to sell archival recordings in iTunes. Their press release states:
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra announced the launch today of MSO Classics, an e-label created specifically for digital distribution of its recordings at the iTunes Music Store and other digital music stores and services, including [...]

Matthew Wengerd brought this post to my attention recently. It is from oboeinsight, a great music blog. Oboeinsinght is definitely worth checking out, even if you don’t play a double reed instrument. The writing is insightful and educational and covers a wide variety of musical topics:

All-The-Time Etiquette

Rehearsals and performances should [...]

Merlin Mann wrote a recent post on Ultradian Rhythms–cyclic biological occurrences in the human body. Many systems in the human body apparently work in 90 minute cycles. This is an interesting concept to ponder. Apparently, for maximum performance one should take a physical and mental break every 90 minutes. Concentration begins [...]

Fall is fast approaching, and that means new product announcements from Apple. I have written about some of Apple’s new developments earlier on my blog–you can find my previous posts here and here. Apple is set to make some new announcements in mid-September, and the word is that a new iPod Video is [...]

The Nashville Symphony is set to open its new $120 million Schermerhorn Symphony Center this fall. This orchestra has really turned itself around in the past several years–it is now one of the fastest growing orchestras in the United States.
Here is a quite from a recent Polyphonic.org story:
Did you hear? The’?re building a $120 [...]

Chicago’s Jazz Showcase, the venerable club owned and operated by Joe Segal for nearly 60 years, is losing its lease. It will be forced to move January 1, 2007. The Jazz Showcase has been located at 59 W. Grand Avenue in Chicago (just west of the Magnificent Mile) for the last 10 years. [...]

My posts are now being distributed through NashvillesNews.net. Check out the site (whether you are in the Nashville area or not)–it is full of useful information. You can click the logo to the left to visit the site. If you check out the site you will find my posts popping up throughout [...]

Chicago’s classical music station WFMT is having a Shostakovich Festival this month. Shostakovich’s birthday week itself will contain the most Shostakovich programming, but the whole month will feature his music. WFMT program director Peter Whorf wrote this recently on the Chicago Classical Music blog:
I’m very excited about what we’ve put together to [...]

I wrote a post about iTunes and how it is affecting classical music downloads in March. You can find that post here.
Wired News recently put out a story on some popular artists who only now agreed to sell their music on iTunes. Here is a quote from the story about why certain artists [...]

Phillip Serna has started a musical events calendar for the Chicagoland area. It focuses on his performances, which tend to be orchestral and early music oriented. It is a good cross section of Chicago classical musical events, and recommend checking it out. There will be a permanent link to it on [...]