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Flickr: Photos from shostakontrabass
Double bassist Ethan’s Flickr page.
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oboeinsight » Blog Archive » Two Nuts Left
Unfortunately, I’ve got more than two Nutcrackers left, but I’ll celebrate for Patty in my mind as I play another week of these.
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Music Bloggers, The Ones That Write About Current Music And [...]

daily observations » odds and ends
Some good links for the week from Charles Noble (including one of mine from Arts Addict!).
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PostClassic: Cats
Cats from bloggers…
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PostClassic: more cats
This cat also like wine and smokes, apparently!
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Child Prodigies Scare The Hell Out of Me
Fun post from [...]

The Powers That Be Have Been Informed - Our Young People Continue to Wait for a 21st C. Education Worthy of Their Attention
Great post from one of the pioneers in educational podcasting.
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Part II: Music Major/Career Thoughts - What I decided I didn’t want to do…
Musician and blogger Kayla ruminates on [...]

Merry Christmas - Honolulu update
Patty from oboeinsight blogs about the Honolulu Symphony missing their payroll. The musicians there seem to be taking it all in stride, however.
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Atonality’s Anniversary
From Musical Perceptions: “Alex Ross has declared today Atonality Day. I didn’t do anything special to celebrate, beyond listening [...]

ClassicalMusicNews.tv blogger John Grillo has just put out a very interesting post about the discovery a few years ago that a Bb 52 octaves lower than the piano was emanating from the Perseus cluster of galaxies. John writes:
Throughout history, music and astronomy have always gone hand in hand. Man has stood gazing [...]

Snow day in Chicago
Brian Dickie took a very pretty photo of Chicago right after this past snowstorm. Much nicer-looking than the roads on my harrowing Milwaukee trip home.
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Honolulu symphony can’t pay musicians - The Honolulu Advertiser
A Honolulu Symphony concert went off as scheduled last night at the Blaisdell Concert [...]

Jazz Underneath: Tough Choice
Great post from jazz bassist Bill Harrison about the frustrations of dealing with difficult colleagues on gigs.
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Worldwide Atonality Day
Alex Ross writes: “By my calculations, this Monday, December 17, is the hundredth anniversary of atonality. Celebrate as you wish.”
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Musical Perceptions: [...]

 

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Edmonton Symphony conductor and fellow Inside the Arts blogger Bill Eddins recently appeared alongside Philadelphia Orchestra double bassist Neil Courtney on Soundcheck from WNYC. They both weighed in on the New York Philharmonic’s recent decision to visit North Korea on their upcoming tour. I blogged about this earlier in the week, as did [...]

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double bass neck repair by alex friedman, originally uploaded by sanbeiji.
Bass neck sans fingerboard, uploaded by fellow bass blogger Joe Lewis. The text reads:
This is how the [...]

Rautavaara Bass Concerto
This is likely to be the first time most people have ever hear Angel of Dusk, Einojuhani Rautavaara’
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Adaptistration: Breaking News: JAX Government Weighs In On Lockout
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The Radiohead pay-what-you-want deal, part 786
Yet more Radiohead album giveaway news.
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