I hope that readers enjoyed Orchestras – A Secret Society of Weirdoes (and I’m one of them!), which I put out on the blog yesterday as part 4 of This Crazy Business. This series has been a lot of fun to write, and I’m in the middle of putting...
In this series we have discussed the alternate mental circuitry developed by musicians, how addictive this art form can be once this circuitry is hard-wired, and how this addiction causes musicians to tolerate employment circumstances that appear untenable to...
Check out the new little video player just below the tabs at the top of this page. I just added this new feature to the blog and, I’ve got to say, this thing is cool. It contains all of the videos we’ve put out for the blog and for Contrabass...
Here is the next track in the Virtual Master Class Project. This is a recording of an excerpt from Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by clicking on the ‘comments’ link below the player.Sometimes these...
My friend and fellow IRIS ORchestra musician Josh Nemith just put out a post on his Cincinnati Pianist Blog about an upcoming performance of George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children, complete with photos of himself demonstrating all the various inside-the-piano...
