Double bassist Matt Heller recently wrote a blog post about a masterclass he observed through an Internet2 broadcast at a New World Symphony event. For those who don’t know, Internet2 is a very high-speed network linking academic institutions (the New World...
Check out this video. It shows a new service from Google Maps that some auto manufacturers are beginning to incorporate into their on board navigation systems. Find an address on Google Maps and choose the ‘send to car’ option. Then, when you get in your...
John Grillo sent me a link to this story in today’s New York Times:An anonymous donor has promised $90 million for the Frank Gehry-designed future home of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Fla., one of the largest gifts to a classical music institution. The...
I posted a fairly innocuous post last week about the Basso Moderno duo playing music written for them by Yoko Ono, and it has triggered a fairly amusing argument in the comments of this post. Many people don’t like Yoko Ono. Check out the discussion!
Finally, there are some orchestral jobs holding double bass auditions! Some of them are the same ones we’ve been seeing for the last few years over and over (Buffalo Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony) but some are new. Here are details:Detroit Symphony...
