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Me and my teacher: Dan Styffe and Gary Karr

2019-10-28T16:00:00Z

The double bass virtuoso taught Styffe how to control the pressures of the world outside the teaching studio

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Too few conductors understand their double bass section

2016-06-06T00:00:00Z

Though the standard of double bass playing has risen exponentially during the past 50 years, conductors’ attitudes towards the instrument have barely changed

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Famous double bass – formerly owned by Koussevitzky – damaged by airline

2015-11-09T00:00:00Z

Atlanta Symphony double bassist Colin Corner was flying with Southwest Airlines to perform in Rochester, New York

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Double bassist Gary Karr performs 'Failing'

2015-06-05T00:00:00Z

Double bassist Gary Karr gives an admirable performance of Johnson's 'Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass'. The work requires Karr to talk to his audience from a script, while performing increasingly complicated material - with the idea that at some point the musician will 'fail' ...

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Double bassist Gary Karr on ‘how to take bad music and make it creative’

2015-01-21T00:00:00Z

The British musician explains how playing the corny pieces of the repertoire gave him an invaluable lesson in finding his own voice

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Double bassist Gary Karr performs Paganini's Three Variations

2014-07-15T00:00:00Z

Double bassist Gary Karr, who had written about the need for orchestral conductors' attitudes to change towards his instrument, gives a comical performance of Paganini's Three Variations, originally composed for 'that puny, small, tiny little instrument, the violin' with pianist Harmon Lewis. Subscribe to ...