My “back to work” schedule this September has afforded me much more writing time, and I’ve been busy as a bee, writing a whole slew of new stories, essays, and articles. Some of these are for publication submission, although everything will...
This weekend we will be featuring an interview with and music from double bassist and composer Donovan Stokes. Donovan teaches bass at Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia, and he is an extremely active soloist, clinician, and composer. We featured music from Donovan...
I hope that you all enjoyed this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode featuring an interview with Scott Rosenthal, a pit musician veteran here in Chicago’s musical theater scene, as well as some Bottesini from the always excellent Stefano Sciascia. If...
It’s video Friday here on the blog this week! I found this adorable and amazing performance of a Taiwanese English class through a recent Boing Boing post. Although utterly hilarious from a native English speaker perspective (especially given the MC Hammer...
Kenneth Woods posted a link to this extremely fun video on his blog recently. Checking it out, I noticed that it has been viewed around 3.4 million times already, so I’m a little late to the game with this! But, if you’re an old man like me and things take...
