If you’ve never heard of a bass trombone, you’re probably not alone. It usually makes its home in the back row of the orchestra with the other low brass instruments, rarely getting any solo time. “The ...

Call it a string bass, a double bass, a contrabass or a bull fiddle, it’s downright rare to see a solo for it on a classical program. But Barron Weir, the Arkansas Symphony’s principal bass player, ...

Just a few months ago, patrons of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra heard a concerto for saxophone and orchestra, which is a fairly uncommon pairing. This time around, they will experience something ...

The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra will continue its Symphonic Series with an evening featuring a classical music standard as well as a concerto from what may be the first double-bass soloist to perform ...

You've never seen a bassist play like Robin Kesselman. Not, at least, the way he did in February, as he leaned over, into and out of his instrument during a solo performance of the Koussevitzky Bass ...

Gary Karr was sitting in the lobby of a San Francisco concert hall after a rare performance last year, signing copies of his CDs, when a man in his early 70s with a white goatee and beret approached ...

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