Double bassist Jon Henderson sent me this photo of Danny Glover promoting his newest movie at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Check out the double bass podium design! It’s got gamba-shaped corners and everything.
Home from Lyric. Had a ridiculously bad drive–1 1/2 hours to go 12 miles! # Heading out on a very chilly morning to catch the train downtown. # Just finished teaching a class of the most adorable 2nd graders you’ve ever seen in your life. # About to record...
A Week in the Life is a brief series chronicling a quirky but nevertheless quite typical week in the life of a mid-tier freelance musician. Though the sort of wacky events I’ve described thus far undoubtedly happen in orchestras of all flavors, from the...
The following is an instrument search request from Erik Dorset at the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin: Dear Early Music Friends, Quite simply, this is a desperate call for your help. No- not money, but a double bass is needed. As we at the Akademie für Alte Musik...
Home from teaching and trying to figure out what’s getting screwed up on the server end for the blog. Ahhh, the joys of tech troubleshootin # Just got off the phone with tech support. Trying to resolve server issues and tweak things to load the blog faster. #...
