Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Home from teaching. It’s fiendishly cold out tonight! #
Watching ‘SuperBad’ - great movie. #
Staying warm on a frigid winter morning and planning this week’s podcast. #
It’s going to be 7 degrees outside tomorrow instead of 5 degrees as predicted. Gotta be happy about the little things… #
Writing up this week’s show notes [...]

Home from teaching. Doing a little blogging and hanging with the cats. #
Watching in awe as Courtney disassembles her laptop. #
Playing a little Bioshock after a solid blogging session. #
Watching ‘Waitress’, which is a really excellent movie. #
Up disturbingly early to go into the city. #
Taking a quick break between morning activities. #
Taking [...]

Library of Congress Blog » My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress)
Library of Congress now offering non-copyrighted pictures through….Flickr! Cool!
(tags: access archive archives blogging blogs books digital flickr folksonomy free history library photo photography Photos public school social tag tagging tags Web Web2.0)

Butts In The Seats: Arts Leaders Ain’t [...]

Home from a long but fun day of teaching. Taking care of a little blog business as the cats stare at me. #
Killing time while waiting for expensive (but necessary) car repairs to get done. #
Doing some blogging and podcasting on a brisk Tuesday morning. #
Getting ready to interview UNT jazz bass professor Lynn [...]

Abu Bratsche: New Year, new boss
Robert Levine on MSO’s Edo de Waart appointment: “Most members of the orchestra regard this as very good news, I think. He’s arguably the best-known conductor we’ve ever had as music director (certainly the one with the most illustrious career prior t
(tags: edo de waart milwaukee symphony robert levine classical [...]

Home from playing at Lyric. It was snowing on the way down and traffic was ridiculously bad. Almost 2 hours just from the near suburbs… #
Uploading some videos for blog posts tomorrow. A new one for Arts Addict and one for DBB.org. #
Watching Law & Order: Criminal Intent with Courtney. Playing [...]

non divisi: MD Hide and Seek Part 1
From Frank Almond: “Ten days ago Edo de Waart was named the next Music Director of the Milwaukee Symphony. The appointment attracted quite a bit of press, and seemed to take a lot of people by surprise (in a positive way).”
(tags: frank almond insidethearts milwaukee symphony seattle edo [...]

I’ve been playing backstage at the Lyric Opera of Chicago for this season’s production of La Traviata.  This is a wonderful gig–a real blast to play.  As an added bonus, the offstage part for this specific opera only requires our participation for the first few minutes of the opera, so I’m driving back north toward [...]

Listening to Garrison Keillor and playing Bioshock. Kind of a weird combination… #
Watching Family Guy and trying to wake up. #
Heading out for a run. The Chicago weather is around 25-30 degrees today. Saturday it’ll only be 5 degrees for the high! #
Doing some blogging, e-mail, and that kind of business before [...]

Déjà vu
Another great post from CSO bassist Michael Hovnanian: “Sometime before dawn Sunday morning I woke up in a cold sweat. A quick check of my schedule confirmed my fears; we did play the Tchaikovsky 4th symphony last season.”
(tags: michael hovnanian double bass blog chicago symphony)

Found - thousands of happy new ears
Great success with podcasting [...]