Double Bass Socialism Part II: Equipment Fixes for Cheap

This is a post from National Symphony Orchestra bassist Jeff Weisner. Jeff also teaches bass at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore and co-authors the blog PeabodyDoubleBass.  Click here for all of Jeff’s doublebassblog.org posts.____________In my last post I looked at...

New double bass composition from Leonardo Presicci

Double bassist Vito Liuzzi recently let me know about a new composition from Italian bassist and composer Leonardo Presicci. Vito writes: LEONARDO PRESICCI from ITALY and his new composition : CROSS OVER BASS (HR) for db. and orchestra Dear Jason, I’m happy to...
Tim Cobb Double Bass Master Class Summary

Tim Cobb Double Bass Master Class Summary

I had the opportunity to addend a master class featuring Tim Cobb this past Wednesday (5/28/08), which was hosted by Peter Lloyd. In addition to serving as principal double bassist with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, Tim serves as principal double bassist...

The Babbling Conductor

I’m skating on thin ice with this post! The classical music world is surprisingly small, after all, and anydisparaging talk about conductors, even in the most anonymous terms, is likely to trickle back to the source. For my sake (I like to get hired back for...

News from the music blogosphere

Here are a few cool items going on around the classical music blogosphere. Stay tuned later this week for some new articles and interesting items from yours truly. We’ve got all kinds of interesting projects percolating in the background… Because Shut Up,...