Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

The following story isn’t exactly the kind of press coverage that most arts organizations are hoping for. The New York Times published an article by Dan Wakin and James Oesterich about long-simmering discord within the Seattle Symphony. Titled ‘In Seattle, a Fugue for Orchestra and Rancor‘, the article states:
And to judge from [...]

ClassicalMusicNews.tv blogger John Grillo has just put out a very interesting post about the discovery a few years ago that a Bb 52 octaves lower than the piano was emanating from the Perseus cluster of galaxies. John writes:
Throughout history, music and astronomy have always gone hand in hand. Man has stood [...]

We’re beginning to roll out some polls again here at DBB.org. This first one should be interesting–how many Nutcracker performances have you played in your life? This one should separate ballet veterans from the pack! You can vote here in this post or over on the right sidebar.

I have been a fan of the service Pageflakes for quite some time. It’s a portal page service, like iGoogle, Netvibes, or My Yahoo, and it allows you to collect various news feeds, add widgets for your e-mail and instant messaging, plus local weather and other such services. This, to me, is a [...]

 

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Edmonton Symphony conductor and fellow Inside the Arts blogger Bill Eddins recently appeared alongside Philadelphia Orchestra double bassist Neil Courtney on Soundcheck from WNYC. They both weighed in on the New York Philharmonic’s recent decision to visit North Korea on their upcoming tour. I blogged about this earlier in the week, as did [...]

Arts Addict is now officially part of Inside the Arts, a new association of arts and culture blogs from the Adaptistration blog family.  Site founder (and Adaptistration blogger) Drew McManus calls this association "a new cultural blogging exchange", which is a great way to describe it.
What, exactly, is Inside the Arts?  Well, it is [...]

I just found a new blog from the Arizona Opera Musicians Association that illustrates a great way to use a blogging platform (Google’s Blogger service in this case) to create a musician-driven ensemble site.  Many orchestra musicians are banding together to create musician-operated community sites for their organizations, and Azooma is a great example, with [...]

John Grillo continues to expand his offerings at ClassicalMusicNews.tv, writing a recent post about the reclusive and enigmatic conductor Carlos Kleiber.  Carlos graced the classical music world with some of the greatest recordings of all time, especially his dynamite recordings of Beethoven 5 and 7.
Carlos was known for his disdain of recordings in general–a likely [...]

We’ve got a few quick news items collected over the past week to start off your week:

Exploring Chamber Music with the Chicago Chamber Musicians now live - We recently launched our new collaborative series between Contrabass Conversations and the Chicago Chamber Musicians.  This project was conceived by Chicago Symphony Orchestra double bassist Brad Opland, and [...]

Here are some stories that have caught my attention this past week.  Most of them could use a blog post all their own, but I seem to be spending all my time digging my car out of snowbanks these days, so these links will have to do:

Danny Newman: 1919-2007 - This legendary promoter for the [...]