Archive for November 2006
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I play bass for the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra (this is my seventh season), and they always put on a great Nutcracker. Check it out if you’re in southeastern Wisconsin this December!
BUY TICKETS NOW!!
Also, check out a reasonably priced complete Nutcracker recording:
…or a higher-end Boston Symphony recording:
Chicago’s Grant Park Orchestra is holding a benefit concert for a violinist with cancer. The press announcement states:
Chicago’s Grant Park Orchestra to Give Benefit for Cancer-StrickenViolinist Without Health Insurance
By Vivien Schweitzer
04 Nov 2006
Conductor Carlos Kalmar and members of Chicago’s Grant ParkOrchestra will perform a benefit concert on November 17 to raise funds [...]
I have created a lot of videos over the last year on Eyespot.com. This service is extremely cool, and I’d encourage everybody to check it out. I wrote a blog post about all of the features a few months back, and they have expanded their offerings since then. David Dudas of Eyespot [...]
If you are interested in learning more about this subject, check out the follow-up post to this article here.
I have a B.M. and M.M. in Double Bass Performance from Northwestern University. Although I had a good financial package for my undergraduate degree and had a full-tuition fellowship or my graduate degree, I still owe [...]
My good friend Jeff Yang sent this announcement to me recently regarding a benefit for Chicago’s venerable Jazz Showcase. I wrote a post a few weeks ago about this topic that you can read here.
The announcement reads:
Many of you may have heard the Jazz Showcase downtown did not get [...]
The Grass & Eclectic Company
Dynamic Bluegrass & Acoustic Music
Will be performing once again at the Yuletide Fair at Waldorf School!
This Saturday, November 18
3 to 5 PM
Held at Prairie Hill Waldorf School, N14 W29143 Silvernail Road, Pewaukee, WI 53072
Strolling entertainers, live music, storytelling, children’s craft workshops, artisan [...]
National Symphony Orchestra bassist and Peabody Institute faculty member Jeffrey Weisner just started a double bass blog. Check it out here. I am also adding it to my Blogroll in the sidebar of this blog. Jeffrey recently wrote a post about his National Symphony colleague Ira Gold. Ira and I used [...]
Last night the Chicago Philharmonic played in Northwestern University’s Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. You can read my previous post about the concert here, or read all of my recent concert posts here.
I have played countless concerts in this hall for the past over the past 15 years, and I always forget what a strange and [...]
Matthew Wengerd recently posted this Milt Hinton video on his 104 Weeks blog. Check out his post here , his website here, or his personal blog here. This is a cool bass video: