The following is a short excerpt from the E-Bass Line Newsletter from the International Society of Bassists. Receiving this newsletter each month is one of the many benefits for ISB members, including special rates on instrument insurance, the excellent journal Bass...
There’s an annual Labor Day concert up at Ravinia (the Chicago Symphony’s summer home) that I often play. It’s a very patriotic affair consisting of an all-Tschaikowsky program, with artillery in the park for the 1812 Overture. You know the...
The title for this post is flagrantly ripped off from Doug Yeo, bass trombonist for the Boston Symphony and the author of yeodoug.com, a fabulous internet resource for all classical musicians and students. Doug wrote a great article with this exact title that I...
From a fellow bassist:Kim Collins wrote: Dear Friends & Musicians, Today (10/6) sometime between 2:00-5:30 p.m. my acoustic bass and 2 amplifier rigs were stolen from the stage of the Free Methodist Church, 1435 Cliff Dr., Santa Barbara, CA. The main sanctuary...
About Northwestern University’s Double Bass Master Classes Northwestern University bass professor Peter Lloyd hosted the third in his series of master classes with world-class double bassists this past Saturday (10/4/08) with Lawrence Wolfe. Mr. Wolfe is...
