I think that down deep I always knew that telling ‘tales out of school’ like I do each week on the blog would eventually come back to bite me where the sun don’t shine. Like the code of silence found among musicians (at least until the Penn &...
We’re going to be launching some new live blogging experiments here at doublebassblog.org. This is something that I’ve been thinking about for quite some time, and I think that it really has enormous potential. We’re going to start by just...
This story is also available in a video version. _____________ Ahhhh! Ahhhh! My focus shattered, I looked up from my music and all around me. Where was that yelling coming from? We were just starting the second half of an orchestral pops concert in a vast arena-like...
In addition to sending us written announcements for your upcoming bass recitals (which we’ll feature on our events page and read aloud on the Contrabass Conversations podcast), feel free to send along any MP3s or video clips of your recitals after they occur. ...
Butler University bass professor David Murray (one of the bassists featured on this weekend’s Contrabass Conversations episode) recently passed along this request from double bassist Karna Mason. She’s doing a study on playing-related pain in double...
