Jeff Weisner’s Peabody New Music Recital Part V: Where Are They?
This is a post from National Symphony Orchestra bassist Jeff Weisner. Jeff also teaches bass at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore and co-authors the blog PeabodyDoubleBass. Click here for all of Jeff’s doublebassblog.org posts.
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(Note to readers: I can’t count and apparently skipped directly from Part II to Part IV. [...]
World’s Cutest Four-Year-Old Sings "Hey Jude"
This video of Ha Yung Wung (his nickname is Hero), a four-year-old Korean boy singing “Hey Jude” while playing the guitar, has been circulating the Internet for about a year now, but if you missed it you’ve simply got to take a moment and watch this!
Edgar Meyer at Bloomington-Normal April 18 2008
Northwestern University double bass professor Peter Lloyd recently forwarded the following information to me. If you’re in northern or central Illinois (or if you don’t mind driving a bit), then check out this event with one of the finest bass players out there. We’ll also have this information listed on our events page.
Hello fellow bass [...]
Jeff Weisner’s upcoming recital
National Symphony bassist and doublebassblog.org contributor Jeff Weisner is writing a series of posts documenting his upcoming recital at Peabody. All pieces for this recital were commissioned by Jeff. You can check out the first two parts of this series through the following links:
Part I - Upcoming Recital
Part II - Dealing With Uncertainty
Check [...]
Submit your recital notices, videos, and recordings to doublebassblog.org
In addition to sending us written announcements for your upcoming bass recitals (which we’ll feature on our events page and read aloud on the Contrabass Conversations podcast), feel free to send along any MP3s or video clips of your recitals after they occur. We’d be happy to work material into both the blog and the [...]
Exploring Chamber Music 3: Brahms Serenade No. 1 in D Major
Welcome to Exploring Chamber Music with Brad Opland and the Chicago Chamber Musicians. This Contrabass Conversations special series highlights chamber music that includes the double bass. Learn more about the Chicago Chamber Musicians by visiting www.chicagochambermusic.org.
We’d like to extend special thanks to both Brad Opland and the Chicago Chamber Musicians for making this series possible. [...]
Scott Best performs Harbison Concerto with the Memphis Symphony
Memphis Symphony principal bassist (and my stand partner for the IRIS Orchestra) Scott Best will be performing the Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra by John Harbison of February 9 at the Cannon Center in downtown Memphis and February 10 at the Germantown Performing Arts Center. Details are available on the Memphis Symphony website. [...]
Exploring Chamber Music - Dvorak Serenade and Schubert String Quintet
Welcome to Exploring Chamber Music with Brad Opland and the Chicago Chamber Musicians. This Contrabass Conversations special series highlights chamber music that includes the double bass. Learn more about the Chicago Chamber Musicians by visiting www.chicagochambermusic.org.
We’d like to extend special thanks to both Brad Opland and the Chicago Chamber Musicians for making [...]
Time for Three premieres Jennifer Higdon’s Concerto 4-3
John Grillo from ClassicalMusicNews.tv recently wrote a post about Ranaan Meyer’s trio Time for Three and their upcoming premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s Concerto 4-3 with the Philadelphia Orchestra. We’ve profiled Time for Three several times on DBB.org, including two full-length Contrabass Conversations audio episodes.
John writes:
A very exciting musical event is on the horizon [...]
The calm after the musical storm - crashing after the year’s most hectic season
The December crush of activity has finally ebbed–only one more New Year’s gig to do this week, and I’m done with performances for a week or two.
After a solid six weeks of wall-to-wall gigs, I’m ready for a break. I’ve really dialed back the driving this year (becoming slightly less of a road warrior [...]
