Friday, August 11th, 2006
I'll be playing the double bass in a benefit concert on 9/9 and 9/10 for the program shown below. This all-volunteer performance is to honor the five year anniversary of the September 11th disaster, and proceeds will go to benefit the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation. (See this shameless cute ...
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Saturday, June 17th, 2006
Bay Area Musicians: September is light anyway, so how about considering doing this benefit to raise funds for the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation:
This September, to mark the five-year anniversary of the World Trade Center disaster, the Pacific Collegium will present Duruflé's Requiem and two major works of Gerald Finzi ...
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
I found this today in my Technorati subscription: Zeke's Gallery: More from the archives - The Double Bass Quartet
Check out the recording. The opening piece is pretty cool sounding. Nice to hear a double bass quartet doing a regular appearance somewhere!
My favorite is of course Gunther Schuller's work "Quartet for ...
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Saturday, June 25th, 2005
The Winnipeg Sun has a clever title for this article though: Spotlight - Holland invaded China - two times
As the Chinese government slowly eased its restrictions on jazz, bassist Dave Holland had a whole new audience to win over.
The communist government banned what it deemed ...
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
Cool! The Andre Previn picked a double bass bassist for the Gould Protégé prize:
Slovakian double-bass player Roman Patkolo, 23, has been chosen by American composer-conductor André Previn to win the $10,000 City of Toronto-Glenn Gould International Protégé Prize in Music.
Right on brother.
Link via 24 St. George.
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