Arizona Bass Players Festival March 5-8, 2009

From Arizona State University bass professor Patrick Neher: The Arizona Bass Players Festival and Workshop and competition will occur March 5-8, 2009 at Arizona State University. The competition is open, in two categories, to double bass and electric bass(es) now, for...

Thoughts on Composer Pronunciations

How do you pronounce Bach? Debussy? Schoenberg or Lutoslawski? Unless you met the composer, it is probably slightly different than I or someone else says it. We Americans tend to be very pretentious about our pronunciations. I’m all for accuracy and being...