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Michael Cameron and Larry Gray (University of Illinois bass faculty) will be performing a master class and workshop in the Libertyville, Illinois area on Monday, October 22nd, around 10 a.m.  If you’re in the metro Chicago area, come and check it out!  More specific time and location details will be coming soon, but here [...]

Ever since I got into podcasting, I have been itching to do what I’m launching this week.  My original idea for starting a podcast was something like a combination of Digital Flotsam (if you haven’t heard this show, stop what you’re doing and check it out–it’s fantastic) and This American Life–in other words, I [...]

 

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This week’s Contrabass Conversations episode features the conclusion of our interview with double bassist Michael Hovnanian. Click here to listen to Michael’s previous episodes (CBC 24 and 29). Michael has been a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1989, and he serves as the president of Discordia Music (double bass music publisher). [...]

This topic was actually the very first personal narrative ever attempted here on the blog, a little less than a year ago. While I still enjoy this previous post (with pictures of the described drive), the topic of all-night commuting is such a painfully bizarre one that I thought it could stand to [...]

The following is a guest post from Double Bass Blog contributor Phillip W. Serna. Check out Phillip’s recitals and interviews on his Contrabass Conversations page, and visit him online at http://www.phillipwserna.com/. Enjoy!__________________
Continuing Contrabass Conversations and the Double Bass Blog’s series on early bass performers, highlighting the many different perspectives on early bass/ violone performance. Our [...]

This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode delves into the topic of spiccato–a topic that we’ll be exploring in depth in the following few episodes of this virtual lesson series.
You can view all the released episodes of this series (as [...]

Here are a few short bits from some of my favorite music blogs. You can always visit my link blog to see all the stories (both music and non-music related) that I’ve been checking out:

Arts as Background Noise - This interesting post from Butts in Seats discusses criteria for supporting arts-friendly politicians. Interesting [...]

I’ve been enjoying reading the posts from Eastman School of Music senior (and former student of mine) Eric Steffens on his blog documenting his experiences studying bass in Vienna.  Eric has been having a great time checking out all sorts of things in Austria, like discovering a house that Beethoven lived in:

…seeing a performance [...]

We’ll be finishing up our interview with Michael Hovnanian on this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode and get a chance to hear some of his double bass playing.  If you’d like to catch up with his previous interview segments, you can visit his Contrabass Conversations page here.
As Drew McManus mentioned on his blog Adaptistration, Michael kept [...]

New York Magazine did a very amusing spread last week about The Most Incomprehensible Bob Dylan Interviews of All Time. One of my personal favorites is this clip from 1965 chastising Time reporter Horace Judson (who looks horribly uncomfortable) about…well…let me know if you figure out what Bob’s talking about!

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