I recently got a chance to play around with one of luthier Chris Threlkeld-Wiegand’s double basses. Chris used to work at Robertson and Sons in Albuquerque, New Mexico, building extensions with capos (like the ones you see on the Contrabass Conversations logo)....
Double Bass and Single Love, originally uploaded by A-Wop-Bop-A-Loo-Bop!. Look out for your bridge, folks, or this could happen to you. This 30-year-old photograph shows a monstrous bass owned by a bassist in the Halle Orchestra.
Readers of Adaptistration, the orchestra management blog by Drew McManus, may have noticed this in the sidebar recently: Arts Addict A new blog from Jason Heath coming Nov. 19th Whaaaa? Jason is starting a new blog? Yes, I am. Although regular...
For many more auditions, also visit http://www.afm.org/ for information on the auditions below: New York PhilharmonicDOUBLE BASS – Section Double Bass – 1 positionResume Date – December 15, 2007Audition Date – Winter and Spring of 2007 and...
Boston Symphony Orchestra principal bassist Ed Barker will be performing the Tubin Concerto with the New Philharmonia Orchestra of Newton, Massachusetts later on this month. Ed performed the Koussevitzky Concerto with this orchestra during the 2001-2002 season, and...
