National Symphony bassist and doublebassblog.org contributor Jeff Weisner is writing a series of posts documenting his upcoming recital at Peabody. All pieces for this recital were commissioned by Jeff. You can check out the first two parts of this series...
Ira Gold, a member of the National Symphony bass section and a previous guest on the Contrabass Conversations podcast, is now on faculty at the Catholic University of America’s Benjamin T. Rome School of Music in Washington, D.C. The school is accepting late...
This brief video demonstrates the way that I record phone interviews along with my own voice, a method that is stable and produces a good audio product. This is harder than you might imagine! A lot of experimentation occurred before arriving at this setup, which may...
Chicago Symphony bassist and active blogger Michael Hovnanian just put out a post recounting a highly wacky gig that he played with other members of his orchestra. This gig (on Good Friday) happened to land on the day of a freak snow storm here in Chicago, with...
Reading Michael Hovanian’s recent blog story Bad Friday made me recall (for whatever reason) a tale that a Chicago Symphony bassist told me many years ago…. Sir Georg Solti, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s longtime music director, had a reputation...
