Advice on auditioning for Juilliard from Orin O’Brien

I have several students preparing for an audition at Juilliard at the moment. Over the years I have had many students audition at this institution, and I thought that it would be valuable to relate some advice given by New York Philharmonic double bassist and...

More additions to ‘For Sale’ page

Thanks to all of the people sending instruments to add to the Bass Blog For Sale Page. Check out the page to see what’s available, and feel free to e-mail me if you’ve got some gear you’d like listed.

Funny Gig Story from Dan Pliskow

Bassist Dan Pliskow sent me this funny gig story a couple of weeks ago, and I thought that readers would get a kick out of it: In 2001 I got a call to work a quartet job at Greenfield Village thatmeant playing seven days a week from noon to 3 PM. Part of the Gig...

Two New Classical Music Podcasts

Podcasting News wrote a post highlighting two classical music podcasts. I think it is great to see more podcasts covering this art form crop up. You can check out the Podcasting News post here. Both of these podcasts originate from Germany, which seems to be where...