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Contrabass Conversations co-host John Grillo just put up a post highlighting Michael Tilson Thomas (John’s music director during his time in the New World Symphony) and the San Francisco Symphony. John writes:
The San Francisco Symphony led by music director Michael Tilson Thomas will be playing for the first [...]

Drew McManus, the perceptive mind behind the great orchestra management blog Adaptistration and chief architect for the Inside the Arts blog network, recently appeared on WNYC’s Soundcheck alongside Norman Lebrecht, author of Who Killed Classical Music? and other such analytical works on the classical music world. Both McManus and Lebrecht offered their perspective [...]

ClassicalMusicNews.tv blogger (and regular Contrabass Conversations collaborator) John Grillo recently put out a post featuring the sensational young conductor Gustavo Dudamel.  John features a great video highlight from 60 Minutes.  Check it out! 
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John sees this exciting young conductor as a real beacon for the future of classical music, writing:
Given the [...]

In late 2007, I wrote a lighthearted (or was it?) dig at Northwestern University and the sorry state of their music facilities:

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Though I doubt that there’s a connection here, I like to think that I did my part in getting the word out about this state of affairs and, if nothing [...]

A note from DoubleBassBlog.org contributor Phillip Serna:

In February 2008, the ‘Viols in Our Schools’ website was launched. ‘Viols in Our Schools’ exists as a pilot program of the Viola da Gamba Society of America. Phillip Serna donates time to perform in schools, often pro bono. Renaissance music for viols, as well as performance of early-western [...]

The February 2008 edition of International Musician, the monthly publication from the American Federation of Musicians, contains a feature on this site and the various satellite projects that I have developed during these past few years of blogging and podcasting, including Arts Addict, Inside the Arts, and Contrabass Conversations.
This feature contains several references to [...]

Double bassist and blogger John Grillo recently weighed in on his blog classicalmusicnews.tv about a study (commissioned by the Knight Foundation) published several years ago analyzing how Americans relate to their local orchestras and classical music in general.  John writes:
The statistic that had an indelible imprint on my mind when I first was aware of [...]

Spokane Symphony bassist Stephen Swanson forwarded a link to these New York Times letters to the editor concerning the recent story by Dan Wakin and James Oestreich on the Seattle Symphony:
To the Editor:
Re “In Seattle, a Fugue for Orchestra and Rancor” by Daniel J. Wakin and James R. Oestreich [Dec. 16]:
The implication that I was [...]

 Inside The Arts, the cultural blogging exchange run by Adaptistration blogger Drew McManus, just got a really slick makeover to go along with the addition of Chicago Opera Theater General Director Brian Dickie to the Inside The Arts lineup.

As you can see, there are separate areas for Drew, John, Joe, Brian, Bill and Ron, and [...]

While strolling around campus recently, I couldn’t help noticing the sorry state of the exterior of the Music Administration Building on Northwestern University’s Evanston campus.  Being a graduate of this institution (B.M. 1998, M.M. 2000), it saddens me to see how shabby things are at present on campus.  My uncle attended the Northwestern music school [...]