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Adaptistration: How To Connect With New Media: Part 2
Drew McManus continues his great series on connecting with new media in this post. He describes RSS in a no-nonsense way and discusses how to genuinely interact with bloggers and other new media figures.
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The Collaborative Piano Blog: Classical Music [...]

The February 2008 edition of International Musician, the monthly publication from the American Federation of Musicians, contains a feature on this site and the various satellite projects that I have developed during these past few years of blogging and podcasting, including Arts Addict, Inside the Arts, and Contrabass Conversations.
This feature contains several references [...]

Adaptistration: How To Connect With New Media: Part 1
This is a wonderful post from Adaptistration blogger (and fellow Inside the Arts blogger) Drew McManus on what the new media is and how to connect with it. (BTW….. you’re looking at the “new media” if you’re reading this post!)
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Double bassist and classical music blogger John Grillo put out a recent post on his blog highlighting his upcoming performances of Verdi’s Rigoletto with Opera New Jersey.  John writes:
I look forward to playing Rigoletto again.  This is my second time tackling this mighty work.  It is really an outstanding piece of art with many heavenly [...]

“People who couldn’t even spell classical are into it now”
Here’s a thoughtful and interesting post from U.K. blogger Jessica Duchen.
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CBC 60: Lynn Seaton interview and music
This week’s episode features an interview with and music from jazz bassist Lynn Seaton. Lynn teaches at the University of North Texas, and he [...]

Double bassist and classicalmusicnews.tv blogger John Grillo and I just wrapped up an opera excerpt breakdown for the Contrabass Conversations show. This is an extension of the orchestra excerpt breakdown that we began on episode 41 of the program. On this episode, we featured the following excerpts, with some commentary plus a recording [...]

ClassicalMusicNews.tv blogger John Grillo has started a new series titled The Art of the Deficit examining how various orchestras function in the modern world and the sort of missteps or miscalculations that frequently get these organizations into financial hot water. Thinking about the recent financial crisis and organizational meltdown in the Jacksonville [...]

Double Bass Padawan: I Got a Bass Lift
From double bass blogger Ben Huff: “Have you ever had somebody give you a compliment that you totally didn’t expect? Say, for example, you went to get a haircut, and the lady chopped way too much of your hair off because the last person didn’t tip her.”
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CBC 59: Jeff Turner interview 2 and Leon Bosch music
We’re wrapping up the interview with Pittsburgh Symphony Principal Bassist Jeff Turner that we began on episode 26 of the podcast, plus featuring music from U.K.-based bassist Leon Bosch’s new album titled The British Double Bass on this week’s epis
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If at first you [...]

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