Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Double bassist Matt Heller, who recently won a position in the Calgary Philharmonic, just put out the third part of his narrative on the process he went through preparing for this audition. It is extremely interesting reading, and I’d encourage readers to check out this story from Matt. These links will take [...]

Click here to view a touching photo tribute put together of scenes from double bassist Corin Long’s life. Corin was the principal bassist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and he tragically died in a diving accident in Spain this March.

The following article originally appeared on Adaptistration in April, 2007 as part of the Take A Friend to Orchestra initiative. I am grateful to Drew McManus for asking me to participate in this collaborative effort. You can read the complete list of 2007 TAFTO contributors on Drew’s blog.
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Take A Friend to Orchestra
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Patty from oboeinsight made some recent posts highlighting a story about auditioning on Charles Noble’s blog Daily Observations. Check out the story–it is about his recent audition for the Seattle Symphony, and it is a great document the whole complicated and stressful process.
This is a great “insider” classical music blog. I just added [...]

Want to hear some real busking? This is a video featuring IRIS Orchestra cellist Eric Stephenson and beatbox flute player Greg Pattillo which has been circulating YouTube like wildfire. The New York Times is planning a feature on Greg’s flute playing, which should prove to be very interesting.

Eric and Greg are great [...]

The Commercial Appeal put out a feature today on the IRIS Orchestra and its new status as an official nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. You can read the article for more information on how this new organizational structure will impact future endeavors.
Some of the facts quoted in the article are not entirely accurate, so take some [...]

The last of the “Three Bassists” of TAFTO (Roger Ruggeri and I were the other two authors), the Cleveland Orchestra’s Henry Peyrebrune writes a great article on the delicate balance between asking and coercing friends to orchestra concerts, and he points out that the social conventions of the event cause more discomfort in the novice [...]

I’ve got a bunch of IRIS Chamber Orchestra posts this morning (as you can see)–if folks are around their computers at noon today (U.S. Central time zone), visit WKNO online, the Memphis metro area’s classical music radio station website, to hear a live broadcast of the IRIS Chamber Orchestra in rehearsal. This is an [...]

The IRIS Chamber Orchestra will be performing a program of Brahms and Rachmoninov this Saturday (4/21/07) evening at the Germantown Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. Click here for ticket and location information. The concert will feature the Fourth Symphony and Variations on a Theme of Haydn by Brahms and the Rhapsody on [...]

Finding Rothko, The IRIS Chamber Orchestra’s latest commissioned work by composer Adam Schoenberg, just won one of the 2007 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. This is exciting news for Adam, and it is more evidence of the high level of musical activity associated with the IRIS Chamber Orchestra.
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