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Thanks to virtuoso performers like Gary Karr, François Rabbath and Edgar Meyer, the double bass is leaping to the front of the concert stage and composers are taking note. This week we’ll listen to some of the music written in the last few decades for this sonorous and incredibly versatile instrument.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Adam Ben Ezra: Can’t Stop Running (excerpt)
Frank Proto: Four Rogues, No. 1, Calm
Dave Anderson: Duets
Gunther Schuller: Quartet for Double Basses, II
Patrick Neher: Grig’s Dance
Tom Johnson: Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass
George Pearle: Monody II
Edgar Meyer: Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra, I
Manuel Enriquez: Mobil II
Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk (excerpt)
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Thanks to virtuoso performers like Gary Karr, François Rabbath and Edgar Meyer, the double bass is leaping to the front of the concert stage and composers are taking note. This week we’ll listen to some of the music written in the last few decades for this sonorous and incredibly versatile instrument.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Adam Ben Ezra: Can’t Stop Running (excerpt)
Frank Proto: Four Rogues, No. 1, Calm
Dave Anderson: Duets
Gunther Schuller: Quartet for Double Basses, II
Patrick Neher: Grig’s Dance
Tom Johnson: Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass
George Pearle: Monody II
Edgar Meyer: Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra, I
Manuel Enriquez: Mobil II
Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk (excerpt)

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