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This is a really worthwhile video to check out. It isn’t on YouTube or Google Video, so I can’t embed it here, but follow the link. This guy plays a chord sequence from “Don’t Stop Believin’” by the band Journey and sings about 20 different popular tunes over it. It shows [...]

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During the summers of 2001 and 2002 I played double bass for the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina. Originally this organization was part of the Festival of Two Worlds that Gian Carlo Menotti started in conjunction with Spoleto, Italy, [...]

Wired News put out a recent story on a musical instruction web app recently demoed at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It is called In the Chair, and it sounds like a real step forward for music education. Check out the demo video:

This is the sort of thing that I would [...]

There is a recent post on oboeinsight about now music may help to improve the health of the elderly. Check it out here.
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I have been working on including as many relevant double bass, electric bass, music, and education blogs as I can on my blogroll in the sidebar on this blog. If anybody has any suggestions for more blogs to list, please leave a comment or e-mail me with ideas. Thanks!
Here are some of my recent additions:
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Google Reader has had some recent exciting new developments. This is really an excellent RSS reader which I have started to use as my main news aggregator. If you are not familiar with the concept of an aggregator, check out this Wikipedia page for more information.
Here is how the new Google Reader looks (see this [...]

The HAMS Competition will be held this year in Chicago, Illinois on Dec. 3rd at 3 pm in the DePaul Concert Hall. Admission is free for this concert.
Their recent announcement states:
The HAMS Competition draws top string talent ages 16 through 26 from around the world. Glimpse tomorrow’s musical stars in Chicago’s own DePaul [...]

There is a Wikipedia page dedicated to the worst movies of all time. Check it out here. This is a short sampling of some of the movies:

“Manos” The Hands of Fate (1966)
A low-budget horror film made by El Paso fertilizer salesman Hal Warren. The film gained cult popularity by being featured on Mystery [...]

I have been using Google Book Search nearly every day since it was launched. Google is attempting to accomplish with printed text what they have done with the internet, which is to have every bit of information available at one’s fingertips. They still have a long way to go to reach this goal [...]

There will be a chamber music concert which will take place at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chicago on November 26th. Irina Feoktistova, the pianist for my recital on the “Amati” double bass from June, will be performing with some other collaborators.
Here is Irina’s bio:
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