Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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Double bassist and blogger John Grillo recently weighed in on his blog classicalmusicnews.tv about a study (commissioned by the Knight Foundation) published several years ago analyzing how Americans relate to their local orchestras and classical music in general.  John writes:
The statistic that had an indelible imprint on my mind when I first was aware [...]

» China blogger beaten to death Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.
This grim story comes from CNN.com via Dvorak Uncensored.
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Why schools should exclusively use free software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Free software also gives users the freedom to cooperate with each other, to lead [...]

CBC 57: Jerry Fuller interviews Jason
Double bassist and early music specialist Jerry Fuller turns the tables and interviews Jason about his perspective on playing early music in this episode. Jerry Fuller recently launched ArsAntiguaPresents.com, a monthly podcast featuring performances of e
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Sticks and Drones: Charlotte Part IV
Bill Eddins on the Charlotte Symphony: “After [...]

Hip hop rhythms through sound proof glass
From On An Overgrown Path: “The background rumble of trains on the London Underground passing beneath the hall can be heard on several of the great classical recordings made in the Kingsway Hall in the 1960s and 70s….”
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Sticks and Drones: Jacksonville - Partners in [...]

PostClassic: Aniara
Kyle Gann from PostClassic writes: “Just before leaving for Europe I chanced to pick up a vocal score of Karl-Birger Blomdahl’s science fiction opera Aniara, and I’ve only recently had time to spend with it….”
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The Most Controversial Blog - Performancing Awards 2007 Reader’s Choice Poll | Performancing.com
I [...]

Adaptistration: State Of The Blog: Adaptistration Turns Four
Drew McManus fills readers in with a ‘State of the Union’ post about Adaptistration.
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Letterman’s Back, With a Greeting From Clinton - New York Times
Letterman’s back: “David Letterman officially made his return to late-night television just after 4:30 on Wednesday afternoon, when he [...]

 Inside The Arts, the cultural blogging exchange run by Adaptistration blogger Drew McManus, just got a really slick makeover to go along with the addition of Chicago Opera Theater General Director Brian Dickie to the Inside The Arts lineup.

As you can see, there are separate areas for Drew, John, Joe, Brian, Bill and Ron, and [...]

My Crazy Stand Partner
Jason chats about a very entertaining stand partner he works with, plus offers some advice for keepi
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oboeinsight » Blog Archive » Weirdest Music News of All
via oboeinsight: “Daily Observations blogger Charles Noble writes about and has a link to “weird classical music news” in [...]

Ionarts: Top 10 Live Performances
Top ten live performances in D.C. from 2007.
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5 Good Musician New Year’s Resolutions
Some good advice for practicing from b5media blogger Arjun Muralidharan.
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CBC 53: Peter Seymour interview and music from Project
This week we feature the first half of an interview with [...]

My never ending Nutcrackers
Patty feels my Nutcracker pain. No shows for the the next few days for me, though, so I am enjoying a little non-Tchaikovsky time at the moment.
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If at first you don’t succeed…: Christmas week
I’m not the only one keeping busy over the Christmas week. THis [...]