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- Instrument:
- Double Bass
- School:
- High School
- Name of School (or last school attended):
- Glenbrook North High School
- Age
- 18
- I play in a:
- Orchestra, Small Ensemble, By Myself
- Favorite Music:
- Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Strauss, Brahms, Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel, Shostakovich, Debussy, Sibelius, Dvorak, Barber, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Meyer, fleck, Rachmaninov
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Playing bass with an orchestra??
Last night I played the Vanhal Double Bass Concerto in C major with my school orchestra, the Glenbrook Symphony Orchestra (I did it in orchestra tuning so that I could use my extension for the latter part of the program, Beethoven 6. For those of you who don't know what I mean by orchestral tuning, maybe that's a post for later). I've performed with an orchestra on two other occasions. The first was when I was in 3rd or 4th grade (can't remember) when I played Little Bear's Bassetto with my old… Continue
Posted on March 20th, 2008 at 6:35pm —
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anyway, great job wednesday night!!!!
Since you just performed a concerto w/ your orchestra, would you be willing to write a blog post on what it was like? talk a little about your "rituals" before hand, how you chose the piece, what you liked most about it, and maybe also how the piece is different to you now that you've performed it. Was this your first concerto? if you have any photos that would be great, too. I'm looking forward to hearing the audio soon.