Here’s a really fun video of double bassist Karl Fenner performing New York Philharmonic assistant principal bassist Jon Deak’s always entertaining B.B. Wolf at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West in 2006. Anyone who hasn’t heard this...
Here is another clip from my demonstration/recital at the 2007 Silk Music Camp in Lisle, Illinois. I perform “Capriccio No. 2” by Louisiana Philharmonic principal bassist David Anderson. After the piece, I briefly demonstrate to the kids the techniques...
Stan Haskins (Glued to the String) pointed me to a thought-provoking post from Dr. Jim Horn’s Schools Matter blog titled “I Test, Therefore It Exists”:If you thought that the orgy of tabulation that has infected our society had reached a climax...
I had an opportunity to get together with Eric Steffens, one of my very first double bass students, this weekend. Eric is a senior at the Eastman School of Music, and he just headed over yesteday to Vienna for a semester of double bass study abroad.The photo on the...
This weekend we will be featuring an interview with and music from double bassist and composer Donovan Stokes. Donovan teaches bass at Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia, and he is an extremely active soloist, clinician, and composer. We featured music from Donovan...
