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Grant Park Symphony bassist and blogger John Floeter put out a recent post on his blog about organizing practice time. He writes:
I divide practice into two large categories, technique and repertoire. Within these two categories are many subcategories.
Technique Goals: physical strength, speed, accuracy, AND mental strength speed and accuracy. With the physical goals, [...]

 

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It is my pleasure to bring you this great interview with Pittsburgh Symphony principal bassist Jeff Turner for this week’s episode of Contrabass Conversations. Jeff has excellent advice for musicians, and he reflects on his early years on the instrument in this very engaging interview. You will also be hearing a [...]

Contrabass Conversations guest and bass blog contributor John Grillo is playing principal bass for The Princeton Festival, a summer music festival that opens this Saturday(6/23/07) with a performance of Bizet’s Carmen. John has mentioned that the singers and staging are superb, so this is definitely a performance to check out if you happen [...]

 

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features an interview with and music from Chicago Symphony bassist Rob Kassinger. Rob’s musical interests span many genres and include both the electric bass and the double bass. You will learn about Rob’s early years on the bass and how working in jazz and rock settings led to [...]

I just did a great interview with Pittsburgh Symphony Principal Bassist Jeff Turner yesterday for Contrabass Conversations. I think that folks will really get a lot of this interview, and I really enjoyed the opportunity to get to sit down wit Jeff and learn his perspectives on the bass and the orchestra business.
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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features an interview with double bassist Michael Hovnanian. Michael has been a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1989, and he serves as the president of Discordia Music (double bass music publisher). Michael also plays for the Gunnelpumpers, Chicago Bass Ensemble, Music of the Baroque, and the [...]

 

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features a continuation of our interview with Indiana University double bass professor Lawrence Hurst plus some music from plus some music from the Italian bass ensemble The Bass Gang. You can check out episode 20 of the podcast for the first part of this interview with Mr. Hurst, and [...]

 

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This week on Contrabass Conversations we are concluding the interview with double bassist Kathryn Nettleman that we began on episode 12 of the podcast. Also, this week we feature some jazz bass from Brooklyn musician Kevin Tkacz plus current news on the bass scene. Enjoy!
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CBC 27 Show Notes

Release Date: 7/1/07
Length: 30:28
Website: www.contrabassconversations.com
E-mail: [...]

Just a quick note to readers and listeners regarding upcoming guests for the next couple of weeks on Contrabass Conversations:

This weekend I will be putting out the next segment of our interview with Indiana University double bass professor Lawrence Hurst. John Grillo co-hosted this episode with me, and you will get to hear us [...]

The 5th annual Boston Bass Bash will be happening this summer from June 29 through July 9. Here is more information from Artistic Director Pascale Delache-Feldman:
Dear Bassists,
I am very excited to invite you to the 5th annual Boston Bass Bash! The BBB 2007 will be held from June 29 to July 1 at [...]