I got the opportunity this past Friday to participate as a clinician in a Skype master class for the Golden Gate Bass Camp in San Francisco. I was the fourth of five master classes, and the line-up was as follows: TUESDAY: July 20th: 4:00 p.m. (check in 3:00 p.m.)...
Careful what you wish for–you just might get it! I submitted a clinic proposal for the January 2011 Illinois Music Educators Association (IMEA) All-State Convention. They only accept a select handful of string-focused clinics, so I figured that mine didn’t...
I always love how Barry Green (a former Contrabass Conversations guest, bass teacher, and author of the Inner Game of Music and other books) imaginatively uses new technologies and ideas in his teaching and performing. Fromm jazzing up the Bach cello suites and...
Oh boy–this is moving week for us here in Chicago. We’re going from Evanston, Illinois down to Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago for my wife to attend med school. I’ll do my best to keep blogging this coming week, but moving tends to throw a...
I used to make this clearer a few years ago, but I like it when you send me stuff to post! I do a lot more posting of other people’s stuff than self-generated material these days (for better or worse… that’s just how life is going right now), so you...