Rick McLaughlin shows basses on 5/26 in Rhinebeck NY

Bassist Rick McLaughlin (a member of the Grammy-nominated Either/Orchestra and AlterEGO electric upright endorser) will be showing his AlterEGO basses this Saturday (5/26) 2pm in Rhinebeck, New York. Here are the details:You can also visit Rick’s blog for more...

Charles Noble – on auditioning later in life

Patty from oboeinsight made some recent posts highlighting a story about auditioning on Charles Noble’s blog Daily Observations. Check out the story–it is about his recent audition for the Seattle Symphony, and it is a great document the whole complicated...

Bleary-eyed hacking

I am in the midst of a whole bunch of web projects right now, many of which I think readers will find very cool. I’ll elaborate a little more in the next few weeks, but I’ll have some very interesting things to announce in terms of resources for this...

Making it as a freelancer – June Matayoshi’s perspective

June Matayoshi recently contributed a post to Chicago Classical Music blog about getting by as a freelancer. I have played a lot of gigs with June in the past, and it is great to hear from her on this blog. In the post she describes the complications of keeping a...

Stay Away from Blogger Custom Domains

OK–I give up. Trying to use the new Google domain hosting feature I blogged about a couple of days ago has proven to be a disastrous idea. Big (BIG) mistake. This thing is one of the worst user experiences I have ever had, and I am a pretty patient guy in the...