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. ____________ One month from today I’ll...
After finishing a performance in a master class, the student looks up, wide-eyed and expectant, at the teacher, expecting some sage advice or pearls of wisdom. The teacher opens his mouth and says: "You have two problems……your left hand and your right...
Actually, this post could quite easily be framed as a question rather than a statement: how do you, the reader, use, access, and derive value from this site? Though I’ve posed this question on polls in the site (and have gotten very interesting results),...
I had the good fortune to be asked to perform a recital in 2006 on Gary Karr’s former bass, formerly attributed to Amati and previously owned by the great Serge Koussevitzky. This recital happened in the very early days of my blogging, and though I covered it...
The bass world is small, and Contrabass Conversations is quickly helping to make it even smaller! We featured double bassist Anthony Stoops on the podcast last weekend (episode 67). Anthony is a wonderful bass soloist, teacher, orchestral player, and composer, as well...
