Here is a short clip of bass soloist and recent Contrabass Conversations guest François Rabbath performing Le Cri during Recital Hour. This performance occurred a few days before François did the interview for Contrabass Conversations, and it is great to hear him play...
Drew McManus wrote a post recently about the benefits and drawbacks of brevity in concert programming. He has written on this subject in the past on his blog Adaptistration, and it is a very important and touchy subject. This particular post discusses the Chicago...
There is a new, fairly geeky option in Google Experimental Labs to allow for searches through a timeline structure. Being a massive bass geek, I naturally typed in ‘double bass’ and got something like this: 184018601880190019201940196019802000Click here to...
Robert Oppelt just wrote a story about Mstislav Rostropovich from his time with him in that National Symphony Orchestra:Rostropovich StoryThe great cellist Mistislav Rostropovich just passed away. As he made himself available so freely, many musicians around the world...
National Symphony recently sent me this photo he took last summer in Bourbon-Lancy, France. It’s good to see that we bass players are making our mark in the gardening world as well! Visit Robert Oppelt’s website for more bass photos as well as helpful bass...
