Double Bass Vacancies for February 2007

There is only one double bass orchestral vacancy listed in this month’s International Musician. That’s right–one job! Not even any per-service jobs are listed this month. The job is for principal bass of the Spokane Symphony, and the details are...

Cleveland Volcano, Aleutian Islands

The following image comes from the NASA archive. Volcanoes are an amazing thing to behold:Here is the NASA data for this plume of smoke:At 3:00 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time on May 23, 2006, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams from International Space Station (ISS) Expedition...

The Double Bass Stylings of Jeff Bradetich

Here’s a clip of University of North Texas professor Jeff Bradetich performing the Courante from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major. Jeff is playing it at pitch and in a very different style than the recent Edgar Meyer recording:If you haven’t...

Making it as a freelancer – June Matayoshi’s perspective

June Matayoshi recently contributed a post to Chicago Classical Music blog about getting by as a freelancer. I have played a lot of gigs with June in the past, and it is great to hear from her on this blog. In the post she describes the complications of keeping a...

Office Space – the thriller

Anyone who has spent any time working in an office (I worked in the legal department of Citibank off and on for a few years) can relate to the fantastic movie Office Space. I had a link sent to me recently from YouTube in which someone recut Office Space to make it...