Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

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In this second installment of my series on professional freelance life as a musician, I would like to offer some commentary on trends that I see in the world of professional classical music performance. This installment of the series is geared toward orchestral performance. Other musicians, educators, and industry professionals may find [...]

This article was published in the March/April 2007 edition of the Adjunct Advocate. Visit the article on their website here.
This series is currently being turned into a book–coming soon!
This is the first in the series of detailed articles covering the hidden costs associated with freelance work. In this installment I discuss the [...]

I’d like to thank Patty Mitchell for mentioning both my pay-per-student post and my Nutcracker story on her recent post from oboeinsight. She mentions a very funny incident from a Nutcracker performance in San Jose. This great story was also told by someone else in the comments of my Nutcracker story. Patty also [...]

I would like to thank Drew McManus for mentioning my recent post on Pay-Per-Student Teaching post on his excellent orchestra management blog Adaptistration. I am really honored to get such high praise from Drew, and I am glad that people are finding this to be useful information. Thanks, Drew!
Positive reception of this information [...]

As 2006 draws to a close I would like to highlight the more significant posts made this year on the Bass Blog. I started this blog a little less than a year ago and for the first six months basically just used it as a student management tool. The content management system that [...]

Recently I have been checking out an interesting pedagogical site called Violinmasterclass.com. This site features some great multimedia resources for both music teachers and students. Here is some information about the site:
Violinmasterclass.com was created for violin professionals, teachers, parents, and students at all levels to enhance the study of playing the violin.
This site [...]

Having recently resigned from two adjunct university positions, I feel the urge to share some of my concerns about how such positions are administrated at many universities in the United States. These concerns are based on my own experiences as an adjunct double bass instructor and upon many conversations with colleagues at other universities. [...]

I have quit my teaching job at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, but the Bassfest that I started five years ago still lives on. Scott Kreger, the new double bass instructor at UWW, will be continuing the festival, and he is having me back this year as a clinician. Scott is a double bassist [...]

The Official Google Blog recently wrote a post about Google’s new partnership with Teach for America. Google states:
In recognition of the strengths exhibited by Teach For America corps members and their strong commitment to education, Google is offering two-year deferrals to individuals who are accepted into Teach For America’s program and who also [...]

There was a great article in this Sunday’s Chicago Tribune Magazine about the rising cost of college tuition. The article profiles Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, a school ranked in the third tier of national colleges by U.S. News and World Report. Tuition costs have doubled at this school between 2000 and [...]