• TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
    Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
    Join free Log in
    Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.

Double Bass Any jobs this month?

#21
chicagodoubler said:
Anyone who takes the Louisville audition- we will come to your house, dry out your dampits, put the wrong rosin on your bow, and fill your case with poisonous spiders. Also, you'll never work in a unionized orchestra for the rest of your life, you wretched little scabs.
Click to expand...

Lol performing arts school in Louisville has already discussed this. All we need is a time and day. :-P

And you forgot "break all your pencils"
 
#26
basteout said:
Hey,
Did you get invited? A friend of mine was looking into that group as well.
Click to expand...

Its a good orchestra with great conditions. The foundation as a whole is quite special. The bass section is solid. Getting an invitation to audition is easy. They'll email you an audition packet with all the info and all the excerpts soon after you send in your application.

Check out the link of the orchestra: Link Removed
 
#29
chicagodoubler said:
Re: Gulbenkian, what is it with Euro orchestras demanding 5 string? Is 4 w extension strictly excluded?
Click to expand...

usually not, an ext. should be ok. Although more and more often are there pieces which require a low B not to mention composers writing for a 5 string bass . MOst ext only go to c.

I say this playing in a european orch for almost 20 years with a c-ext. Our band states in the audition announcement, 5string or bass with c-ext..

Many orchestras provide instruments for the bassists as they provide tympani, piano, harp etc. So it is not uncommon for a candidate to show up to an audition with a smaller, solo oriented instrument.
 
#30
chicagodoubler said:
Re: Gulbenkian, what is it with Euro orchestras demanding 5 string? Is 4 w extension strictly excluded?
Click to expand...

G-force is right. They won't exclude you if you play on a 4 w extension. Most probably the orchestra owns 5 string instruments that the players have the opportunity to use. The Principal Bass player is american. I am sure he'd be cool about it. :cool:

Its not like the German/French bow thing.
 
#31
Bubbabass said:
Best of luck to you. BTW, I am not on the committee, or involved in any way with this audition, other than having suggested some of the excerpts.
Click to expand...

Hi Bubbabass,

I saw that you had posted about being in the Strolling Strings for over 26 years. Congratulations, I bet it was wonderful getting to play with such a great group of musicians.

I'm taking the audition this month and I was wondering if you read a lot of changes and jazz charts with the group. Also, when you took the audition, did they have you sight reading changes? I'm just curious.

Thanks!
 
#33
Invalid Link Removed

Boston Symphony Orchestra
SECTION BASS
(one vacancy)
Résumés due on or before: July 18, 2012

**Please send all resumes via e-mail or to the Tanglewood address below**

Preliminary Audition: October 15, 2012
Semi-final/Final audition: October 16. 2012
Audition repertoire to be posted after résumé deadline

Contact Information
Highly qualified applicants please send a one page résumé, including email address and telephone number, to:

Jen Chen, Audition Coordinator/Assistant to the Orchestra Personnel Manager

E-mail (Highly preferred): [email protected]

June - August
Tanglewood Shed
297 West Street
Lenox, MA 01240
FAX: 413-637-5329

September - May
Symphony Hall
301 Massachusetts Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
FAX: 617-638-9325
 
#35
This audition can probably be considered as filling the same spot that was open at the last BSO audition 2 or 3 years ago, for which there was no winner. There is another opening in the section as well, and I suspect that they will have another audition for that before long. The BSO certainly isn't hurting for cash.
Maybe if we're lucky, they'll just hold a mass audition like NY and hire even more people at once!
 
#38
andrewbn said:
Hi Bubbabass,

I saw that you had posted about being in the Strolling Strings for over 26 years. Congratulations, I bet it was wonderful getting to play with such a great group of musicians.

I'm taking the audition this month and I was wondering if you read a lot of changes and jazz charts with the group. Also, when you took the audition, did they have you sight reading changes? I'm just curious.

Thanks!
Click to expand...

Some tunes in the book are in lead sheet style, a couple ancient ones (not on the audition) have a chicken scratch 1st violin part, sometimes with changes, and you have to make it up yourself. Most of our newer arrangements have a fully written part (Bohemian Rhapsody, Billie Jean), that I play as written. A fully written part exists for most tunes, but I have always reserved the right to adjust it. Yes, I recall sight reading in 1985. Don't know what this audition holds in that regard as I am not involved, but you should be ready to do so, IMO.

I've subbed with The Airmen of Note a few times and there you must be prepared to read written lines and changes idiomatically in the same chart.

If you have a strong grasp on a wide variety of styles, including good orchestral chops, this is the gig for you.

You can check out a lot of our stuff at

Link Removed

Good luck!
 

Latest posts

Top Bottom
Back