Dusty gems from the blog archive

One of the biggest challenges for a blogger is making useful older content easy to access without becoming an annoying self-promotion machine.  I am always struggling with this, and I’ll probably do highlight posts like this every once in a while. ...

Chicago Symphony bass boxes – a post from Michael Hovnanian

I love these sort of posts from Michael Hovnanian.  Funny, quirky, and irreverent, Michael really does an excellent job of blogging about life as a bassist in a major symphony orchestra.  You can here Michael’s three-part Contrabass Conversations interview on...

Revisiting the ‘Road Warrior’ Series

Ever since wrapping up Road Warrior Without an Expense Account, my ten-part series on life as a classical freelance musician, I have been getting e-mails encouraging me to publish this work in book form.  Although I have been kicking this idea around in the back of my...

Follow-up to Driving for Dollars – This Crazy Business Part 5

A few days after putting out part 5 of This Crazy Business, I realized that a few of my comments and assumptions expressed in this post could use some clarification.  I’d like to take a moment and try to articulate a few topics that I glossed over or...