In 1984, Deutsche Grammophon put out a recording of West Side Story featuring Kiri Te Kanawa (Maria), José Carreras (Tony), Tatiana Troyanos (Anita), and Kurt Ollmann (Riff). This recording is, to put it mildly, bizarre, with these operatic titans producing a final...
Last week I wrote a piece covering the Joshua Bell train station busking story that has been floating around the Internet. Many bloggers have added their two cents to this story (you can visit my previous post for links to some of these other bloggers’...
I have a page with a (slowly) growing collection of odds and ends for download. You can visit this downloads page here. In addition to technique routines from various bass players and some transcriptions of pieces, here are currently scale fingerings that I created...
The Internet Archive (if you haven’t been there before, check it out–you’ll lose hours of your life poking around) has a really cool feature called the Internet Wayback Machine. With this web application you can enter the address for a site you like...
I mentioned in a recent Contrabass Conversations episode that I would be sharing Canadian bassist Meredith Nelson’s experiences with double bass plane travel over the years. It is a great reflection of all the garbage we bassists have to deal with just to bring...
