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This excellent comment came in a couple of days ago on our post (anonymous commenter) from September about balancing music performance and music education.  Since things move quickly here (lots of new posts and comments every day), I like to highlight these types of responses–it’s easy for them to get lost in the shuffle.  [...]

Double bassist and blogger Joe Lewis wrote a post yesterday that raised some very good questions. He writes:
I’ve often thought much about efficiency when practicing music. I used to park myself in a practice room from dawn until midnight back at NEC and even before then. I would break my practice routines down [...]

 

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations Episode features the second part of our interview with double bassist, music educator, and author Peter Tambroni. Last time we heard from Peter (on episode 32), we talked about his early years on the bass, classroom and school orchestra teaching techniques, studying bass during his bachelors and masters degrees, teaching approaches, [...]

National Symphony bassist and Peabody Conservatory instructor Jeff Weisner wrote a very flattering post on PeaBodyDoubleBass, the collaborative blog from faculty members Jeff, Paul Johnson, and John Hood.  Thanks for the kind words, Jeff, and thanks for pointing readers to the various blog and podcast projects!
Jeff discusses employment prospects for the double bassist in this [...]

Bass blog and Contrabass Conversations regular contributor John Grillo recently wrote a post on his new blog project ClassicalMusicNews.tv about the New World Symphony’s Oktoberfest a tradition that he created when he was a fellow there. John writes:

A long standing tradition has been brewing at the New [...]

Here are a few short bits from some of my favorite music blogs. You can always visit my link blog to see all the stories (both music and non-music related) that I’ve been checking out:

Blogs - the new wisdom of crowds? - On An Overgrown Path blogger Bob Shingleton (Pliable) is giving a talk today [...]

The following is a guest post from Double Bass Blog contributor Phillip W. Serna. Check out Phillip’s recitals and interviews on his Contrabass Conversations page, and visit him online at http://www.phillipwserna.com/. Enjoy!
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Contrabass Conversations and the Double Bass Blog are continues is series on early bass performers. It will highlight many different perspectives on early bass/ [...]

What motivates us?
What makes us get into this business, anyway, making numerous sacrifices along the way?
Not the money (ha!), but rather the drive to create, to devote one’s life to the pursuit of organized (i.e. musical) creativity.
What percentage of active musicians feel that their musical thirst to create, that primal urge felt by creative individuals [...]

This is the last installment in our series of virtual lessons with Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist Andy Anderson. We hope you’ve enjoyed this series, and we’ll be rolling all the videos up this week into a dedicated player, allowing you to watch the entire lesson series from beginning to end. This feature [...]

The following is a guest post from Double Bass Blog contributor Phillip W. Serna. Check out Phillip’s recitals and interviews on his Contrabass Conversations page, and visit him online at http://www.phillipwserna.com/. Enjoy!
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David Miller with the Jefferson Baroque Orchestra
Continuing Contrabass Conversations and the Double Bass Blog’s series on early bass performers, highlighting the many different [...]