Best of the Blog

It’s been a great year of blogging for me personally, and I’m really excited to have reached the phase of development for both Contrabass Conversations and doublebassblog.org that I’m at currently. We’ve got a large daily readership (we were...

Short Takes for 6/24/08

MYA Saxophone Quartet featured on From The TopThe What’s Cookin’ Saxophone Quartet, made up of Midwest Young Artists members Amanda Peterson, Mira DeJong, Kateri Tumminello, and Joshua Plotner, was recently featured of NPR’s program From The Top. I do a lot of work...

Door County and my summer blogging schedule

I’m off to scenic Door County, Wisconsin tomorrow for my very enjoyable annual summer music festival. I put out a video about this festival earlier this week. It’s fun to think back on my previous seasons spent up in Wisconsin. In 2005, this blog...

17th century music and 21st century technology

This is a guest post from double bassist and early music specialist Jerry Fuller. Learn more about Jerry and his early music podcast at ArsAntiguaPresents.com. ______________ I had a fascinating day. I performed Biber’s Mensa Sonora composed in 1680 with...