We just wrapped up our 10 part virtual lesson series with Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist Andy Anderson, and putting these episodes into one easy-to-use player seemed like a good idea. The player below will play the series from episode 1 through episode 10–just...
Bass blog contributor Benjy recently sent me a link to this video featuring Rinat Avisar with the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra performing the Concerto Capriccioso by Haïm Permont:...
Corin Long’s sister Vanessa has booked Longslade Community College in Birstall, Leicester for a memorial concert for the late Royal Philharmonic principal bassist, who tragically died in an accident earlier this year. Vanessa writes: The concert will be...
I stumbled upon this blog post over the weekend, discovering a very funny Van Halen video from early October, 2007. Apparently, the synthesizer in the opening of the classic Van Halen tune ‘Jump’ started playing at 48K instead of 44.1 K, causing...
What motivates us? What makes us get into this business, anyway, making numerous sacrifices along the way? Not the money (ha!), but rather the drive to create, to devote one’s life to the pursuit of organized (i.e. musical) creativity. What percentage of active...
