Cleveland Volcano, Aleutian Islands

The following image comes from the NASA archive. Volcanoes are an amazing thing to behold:Here is the NASA data for this plume of smoke:At 3:00 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time on May 23, 2006, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams from International Space Station (ISS) Expedition...

The Double Bass Stylings of Jeff Bradetich

Here’s a clip of University of North Texas professor Jeff Bradetich performing the Courante from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major. Jeff is playing it at pitch and in a very different style than the recent Edgar Meyer recording:If you haven’t...

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...

Office Space – the thriller

Anyone who has spent any time working in an office (I worked in the legal department of Citibank off and on for a few years) can relate to the fantastic movie Office Space. I had a link sent to me recently from YouTube in which someone recut Office Space to make it...

Bear Down, Chicago Bears performed by Bryan Griffin

OK–the Bears lost the Superbowl, but this is still a video worth checking out. This is ‘Bear Down, Chicago Bears’ as performed by the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Bryan Griffin:There is another famous individual with the exact same name (only...