The 2007 Whitewater Winter Bassfest, an event that I started five years ago at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, just happened a couple of weekends ago. Scott Kreger, the new double bass instructor at UWW and a member of the Milwaukee Symphony, was teaching...
I happened to catch one of the most engaging and fascinating lectures that I have ever heard in my life with blogger, copyright expert, and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow. Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and co-author of...
Here is a short (but excellent) clip of double bassist Boguslaw Furtok playing the last movement of the Eccles Sonata. The camera zooms in on his right hand, giving viewers an opportunity to check out his bow grip. German players are most likely more aware of the...
I have been playing around with the web service mylot quite a bit recently, and I’ve kind of gotten hooked. There is nothing completely original about this service, but it combines a message board, photo sharing, and social networking site together into a really...
I always knew that my cats stole my baton and conducted imaginary symphonies when I left hom, but I didn’t catch them until just now.
