"What should I do when there is no sheet music?" Things to know when a double bass plays another part's sheet music in a wind orchestra

I am Shinnosuke Iguchi, a double bass player, instructor, and conductor. I received this question in my note question box.I ...
JamBase

Dark Star Orchestra’s Skip Vangelas To Use Phil Lesh ‘Mission Control’ Bass

Dark Star Orchestra bassist Skip Vangelas will use Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh‘s “Mission Control” bass for a pair of DSO shows in Southern California. Vangelas will play “Mission Control” on ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune

For one Baja Orchestra musician, it’s all about the bass – the double bass with his name on it

TIJUANATIJUANA — Andrés Martín, a double bass player with the Baja California Orchestra, always wished that music would take him places. That dream is about to become a reality — literally. The Buenos ...
BroadwayWorld

Joseph Conyers, Citizen Musician and Youth Advocate, Wins Principal Bass Of The Philadelphia Orchestra

Following tenures at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (GA), Grand Rapids Symphony (MI), and Santa Fe Opera (NM), Conyers has held The Philadelphia Orchestra's Assistant Principal Bass (Mark and Tobey ...
Dallas Morning News

Review: Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra returns to Bass Performance Hall with expressive Dvorak

It was a relief to finally hear the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in Bass Performance Hall. Last year, the FWSO was forced to play in the acoustically dreadful Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium, after ...