Archive for March 2007
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Robert Orth with the Elgin Symphony
Robert Orth, one of my favorite baritones, is performing in Carmina Burana with the Elgin Symphony this weekend. You can find out more information about the performances at the Elgin Symphony website.
The orchestra plays this classic concert warhorse quite well, but the real highlight of the evening is Robert’s fantastic voice and style. [...]
Bassfest 2007 photos and video
The 2007 Whitewater Winter Bassfest, an event that I started five years ago at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, just happened a couple of weekends ago. Scott Kreger, the new double bass instructor at UWW and a member of the Milwaukee Symphony, was teaching there, as were double bassists Kate Nettleman and Peter Tambroni.
Evan [...]
MySpace to Homeland Security: Privacy and the Totalitarian Urge
I happened to catch one of the most engaging and fascinating lectures that I have ever heard in my life with blogger, copyright expert, and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow. Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and co-author of the great blog Boing-Boing, Cory is to me [...]
Boguslaw Furtok plays the last movement of the Eccles Sonata
Here is a short (but excellent) clip of double bassist Boguslaw Furtok playing the last movement of the Eccles Sonata. The camera zooms in on his right hand, giving viewers an opportunity to check out his bow grip. German players are most likely more aware of the difference in bow grip styles than [...]
The addictiveness of mylot
I have been playing around with the web service mylot quite a bit recently, and I’ve kind of gotten hooked. There is nothing completely original about this service, but it combines a message board, photo sharing, and social networking site together into a really nice, sleek package. You also get paid a certain [...]
His Royal Highness, Montana de Montecore, Conducts the Orchestra
I always knew that my cats stole my baton and conducted imaginary symphonies when I left hom, but I didn’t catch them until just now.
Japanese Bassist Yohei Arai’s blog
I’d like to thank Yohei Arai for linking to me recently, and I’d urge Japanese bassists to check out his blog. There isn’t much English on the blog, but there are a lot of photos and music links. Yohei is actually posting the feed from my last few posts on his blog, which [...]
