Advice for aspiring music performance majors

Update: I have a lot of advice for aspiring music performance majors on the Contrabass Conversations podcast, including interviews with major double bass teachers like Paul Ellison, Kurt Muroki, Alex Hanna, David Allen Moore, Bruce Bransby, and many others.  Check it...

Jeffrey Weisner Double Bass Blog

National Symphony Orchestra bassist and Peabody Institute faculty member Jeffrey Weisner just started a double bass blog. Check it out here. I am also adding it to my Blogroll in the sidebar of this blog. Jeffrey recently wrote a post about his National Symphony...

Google for Educators

This week’s Podcast for Teachers describes a great new service from Google designed specifically for educators. Google for Educators amalgamates all the Google services that are of use to teachers, including Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Blogger, Google Page...

Illinois Music Educators Association student success

I’d like to congratulate my four students who made it into the District 7 Illinois Music Educators Association orchestra for Illinois. Scott Bakshis (who was principal bass for Illinois All-State last year), Ian Hallas (who was principal bass for district IMEA...

The Power of del.icio.us

The term “social bookmarking” may not be familiar to everybody, but it has emerged as one of the most useful tools of the Web 2.0 movement. The service del.icio.us (now owned by Yahoo!) is the oldest and best example of the power of social bookmarking....