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\nphoto credit: David Shankbone<\/em><\/p>\n

Double-bassist Jason Heath gives an expos\u00c3\u00a9 on life in the “pit”<\/a> (the lowered area in front and beneath the stage which holds the orchestra during shows, ballets, and operas. It’s some pretty extreme stuff, including dancing, yelling, boozing, watching television – you get the picture (and if you don’t read the rest of the post here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

photo credit: David Shankbone Double-bassist Jason Heath gives an expos\u00c3\u00a9 on life in the “pit” (the lowered area in front and beneath the stage which holds the orchestra during shows, ballets, and operas. It’s some pretty extreme stuff, including dancing, yelling, boozing, watching television – you get the picture (and if you don’t read the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[115,2],"tags":[54,55,62,3660],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-opera","tag-orchestra","tag-symphony","tag-viola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-9S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2245,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/24\/dallas-fort-worth-ballet-orchestra-replaced-with-outsourced-musicians\/","url_meta":{"origin":612,"position":0},"title":"dallas-fort worth ballet orchestra replaced with outsourced musicians","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"From a musician press release: Musicians are upset because Texas Ballet Theater is using recorded music it made in China to replace them in the orchestra pit at Bass Hall. 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