Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Google has been hosting a series called Authors @ Google at their Mountain View, CA headquarters.  They recently had New Yorker writer Alex Ross speak about his new book "The Rest is Noise".  I have seen this video of the presentation pop up on the classical music blogosphere over the last couple of weeks, [...]

Readers of Adaptistration, the orchestra management blog by Drew McManus, may have noticed this in the sidebar recently:
Arts Addict A new blog from Jason Heath coming Nov. 19th
Whaaaa?  Jason is starting a new blog?  Yes, I am.  Although regular readers may think that I’m nuts (guessing correctly what a ridiculous [...]

John Grillo wrote a recent post on his blog ClassicalMusicNews.tv highlighting an upcoming Hal Robinson performance with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra. John writes:
It has been said that double bassists are very rarely soloists and the repertory for concerto appearances is basically non-existent. Leave it to Mr. Robinson to debunk these myths. [...]

Come see the Chicago Bass Ensemble in performance at the Lincoln Park Cultural Center next week! I’ll be there, and I hope to see you there as well.
Free admission.

Jacque Harper

Doug Johnson

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
7:00pm [...]

William J. Zick wrote an interesting post on his AfriClassical blog earlier this week, stating:
The rumor that Beethoven is Black just won’t go away, in spite of the lack of any real evidence. What most people are unaware of is Beethoven’s real relationship with the Black violinist George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860).
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Here are a few short bits from some of my favorite music blogs. You can always visit my link blog to see all the stories (both music and non-music related) that I’ve been checking out:

Blogs - the new wisdom of crowds? - On An Overgrown Path blogger Bob Shingleton (Pliable) is giving a talk today [...]

Here are a few short bits from some of my favorite music blogs. You can always visit my link blog to see all the stories (both music and non-music related) that I’ve been checking out:

John Grillo discusses the IRIS Orchestra - John Grillo (a frequent collaborator for the blog and the podcast) writes about the [...]

While attempting to do some hunting around for public domain scores earlier this week, I was greeted by the following message from the IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project):
On Saturday October 13, 2007, I received a second Cease and Desist letter from Universal Edition. At first I thought this letter would be similar in [...]

I stumbled upon this blog post over the weekend, discovering a very funny Van Halen video from early October, 2007.  Apparently, the synthesizer in the opening of the classic Van Halen tune ‘Jump’ started playing at 48K instead of 44.1 K, causing a….bit of a problem when the other instruments came in.  Eddie Van Halen [...]

Corin Long’s sister Vanessa has booked Longslade Community College in Birstall, Leicester for a memorial concert for the late Royal Philharmonic principal bassist, who tragically died in an accident earlier this year. 
Vanessa writes:
The concert will be from 7.30 to 9.30ish with a bar open til midnight. All are most welcome to attend and [...]