Author name: Flint Angeroth Franks

Director of Jazz Ensembles / High Brass Instructor at Southern Arkansas University.

Double Bass

Giuseppe Ettorre: “I Think You Should Play Music Because It Is a Part of Your Being”

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Performer Giuseppe Ettorre talks about his inspirations and approaches to playing the bass, as a soloist and in the orchestra. The first double bass soloist at the Orchestra of La Scala of Milan shares his thoughts on what has helped him find success in competitions, recordings, and playing, from listening to Jaco Pastorius to being efficient in the practice room.

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Chi-chi Nwanoku: “We Can Learn From History, but We Will Be Judged by Our Actions Today”

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Bassist and educator Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE discusses how the past impacts our present, from approaches to musical style to how we view the 21st-century orchestra. The founder of the Chineke! Orchestra shares what experiences from her past have inspired her playing, teaching, and her goal to change perceptions of black and ethnically diverse musicians in classical music.

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