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Some good links for the week from Charles Noble (including one of mine from Arts Addict!).
Cats from bloggers…
This cat also like wine and smokes, apparently!
Child Prodigies Scare The Hell Out of Me
Fun post from The Good Musician about child prodigies.
Musical stocking fillers from Overgrown Paths
Recommendations on good recordings from On An Overgrown Path.
Oboe blog Lone Oboe celebrates its one year anniversary.
Help your students practice more
Advice for upping those student practice hours.
Sticks and Drones: CONDUCTOR SMACKDOWN!!! – More Musical Mistletoe Please!
A great pro/con smack down from Bill Eddins and Ron Spigelman.
David Duff’s Classical Blog: Competition for the MET?
News on the Met (and other opera companies) simulcasting their performances to movie theaters nationwide. What about smaller opera companies actually performing these works to audiences?
PBDB: Mock Day Part II: How it Happens
More on the Peabody double bass mock day. The list: Beethoven 9th; Strauss: Don Juan; Bach: 2nd Orchestral Suite, “Double” and “Badinerie”; Mozart: Sym. No. 35; Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, 1st mvt.; Mahler: Sym. No. 1, 3rd mvt.; Pr
Andrew Anderson Teaches the Double Bass Part 9 by jasonheath — Revver Online Video Sharing Network
High resolution versions of our Contrabass Conversations videos. Available for hi-res download, and soon to be replacing all the older video versions.