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Barron Weir
AGE: 31
PROFESSION: Principal Bass, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Little Rock
HOMETOWN: Blue Springs, MO
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HOW YOU BECOME A BASS PLAYER:
"In orchestra, they said, ‘Here are some instruments you can pick from.’ I thought it [the upright bass] was like the electric bass and if I learned it in school, then I could apply it to my electric guitar. Public school orchestra is the reason I am playing the bass. It wasn’t just an individual, but the whole concept and the whole organization of high school orchestra. If high school orchestra wasn’t there then I probably wouldn’t have been introduced to this form of the bass and I wouldn’t be playing it."
MOST INSPIRING HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC TEACHER: "If I had to pick one individual, one year when I was at All-State Orchestra I had Alastair Willis [current music director for the Illinois Symphony Orchestra] as the clinician and he was really inspiring. He looked great, like one of the Beatles, and it was the first time I ever heard Bernstein’s West Side Story and Adagio for Strings. He was a real conductor, with good energy, who had beautiful and good things to say!”
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ADVICE FOR PRACTICING: "Sometimes I practice 10 hours and sometimes I only practice for three hours. Practice as much as you need."
ADVICE FOR PERFORMING: "Think about WHY you are performing. Figure out the reason behind what you are doing and then focus on that while you are playing."
INSTRUMENT OF CHOICE:
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Anton Krutz 1997 Signature Bass
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- Barron Weir In Action! -
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