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I am down in Memphis, Tennessee right now preparing for a concert tomorrow night with the IRIS Chamber Orchestra. I have been a member of this fantastic ensemble since its inception seven seasons ago, and I am having a great time preparing for the first concert of this 2006-2007 season.
This concert features violin [...]

Polyphonic.org has an informative new post from Eric Beers, contract administrator for the Symphonic Services Division of the American Federation of Musicians. Flying with the bass (or any musical instrument) has grown increasingly more difficult with each year after 9/11. In 1997 and 1998 I flew about seven or eight times a [...]

This is one of Memphis’ oldest hospitals. Priscilla Presley was born here and Elvis was taken here when he died. It was imploded in September, 2005, and I was at the event. The city of Memphis actually threw an “implosion party”, with bands playing implosion-themed music (Such as “When the Walls Come [...]

This is the sun coming up on my all-night drive from Memphis to Rockford this past Saturday.

I will be playing this weekend in Memphis with the IRIS Chamber Orchestra. We are playing:
Huang Ruo: IRIS commissioned piece(world premiere)Barber: Dover BeachGene Scheer: Song cycle from “Voices from World War II”Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
The soloist for this cycle is baritone Nathan Gunn. He has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco [...]

 

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John started playing Double Bass at the age of 11. He attended The Julliard School during high school and was a scholarship student at Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana where he studied with Lawrence Hurst. After graduating from IU, he attended the Manhattan School of Music completing his Masters Degree with Timothy [...]