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The following is a short excerpt from the E-Bass Line Newsletter from the International Society of Bassists. Receiving this newsletter each month is one of the many benefits for ISB members, including special rates on instrument insurance, the excellent journal Bass World, the paper edition of the Bass Line, and much more! Check out [...]

The following is a short excerpt from the E-Bass Line Newsletter from the International Society of Bassists. Receiving this newsletter each month is one of the many benefits for ISB members, including special rates on instrument insurance, the excellent journal Bass World, the paper edition of the Bass Line, and much more! Check out [...]

 

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We’re featuring an interview with San Diego Symphony Principal Bass Jeremy Kurtz on this week’s episode. Jeremy was a student of Hal Robinson at Curtis and Tim Pitts at Rice University, and he also spent two years in the New World Symphony prior to his appointment with the San Diego Symphony. His solo album [...]

Chicago folks–don’t forget that the dynamic mandolin/bass powerhouse of Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile return to Chicago this fall for a concert at the University of Chicago on October 24 at 7:30 p.m. Here’s a link to the University of Chicago performance series website section on the Edgar concerts this year:
Thanks to University of Chicago [...]

We’ll be featuring San Diego Symphony Principal Bass Jeremy Kurtz this weekend on Contrabass Conversations. Jeremy has been actively involved in the International Society of Bassists and was the catalyst for the recent John Harbison Concerto for Double Bass, which was jointly sponsored by many o rchestras across the country. Jeremy is also releasing his [...]

Former Contrabass Conversations guest Justin Locke, formerly with the Boston Pops and author of “Real Men Don’t Rehearse: Adventures in the Secret World of Professional Orchestras” has a new blog. Go to justinlocke.typepad.com.

The following is a short excerpt from the E-Bass Line Newsletter from the International Society of Bassists. Receiving this newsletter each month is one of the many benefits for ISB members, including special rates on instrument insurance, the excellent journal Bass World, the paper edition of the Bass Line, and much more! Check out the [...]

From a fellow bassist:
Kim Collins wrote:
Dear Friends & Musicians,
Today (10/6) sometime between 2:00-5:30 p.m. my acoustic bass and 2 amplifier
rigs were stolen from the stage of the Free Methodist Church, 1435 Cliff Dr.,
Santa Barbara, CA. The main sanctuary doors are always unlocked during business hours, and we
speculate that someone must have seen me bring the [...]

About Northwestern University’s Double Bass Master Classes

Northwestern University bass professor Peter Lloyd hosted the third in his series of master classes with world-class double bassists this past Saturday (10/4/08) with Lawrence Wolfe. Mr. Wolfe is Assistant Principal Bass of the Boston Symphony and Principal Bass of the Boston Pops, and he teaches bass at several [...]

The following is a short excerpt from the E-Bass Line Newsletter from the International Society of Bassists. Receiving this newsletter each month is one of the many benefits for ISB members, including special rates on instrument insurance, the excellent journal Bass World, the paper edition of the Bass Line, and much more! Check out the [...]