The Rest is Noise alerted me to a recent Wall Street Journal column by About Last Night blogger Terry Teachout. He writes: “We’re the last generation of newspaper critics, you know,” a New York drama critic told me the other day. “After us,...
John Floeter sent me a link to an insanely funny service called Gizoogle which allows you to read my blog in glorious Snoop Dog jive talk. You can click here to read the whole site in jive (warning–lots of profanity if you try it) , or check out this version of...
There isn’t any identifying information tagged with this video about who this bass player is or what orchestra he is playing with, so if anybody out there has more information, let me know and I’ll roll it into this post.This is a fabulous rendition of a...
Has anyone out there done much playing on these “chopped off” tour basses? I wonder if they are much easier to get on a plane and how closely the sound resembles that of a standard bass.Related Posts:Maggini exhibition photobeautiful Millennium Park...
I spent this entire week in Wisconsin, first driving to Madison to play in the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, then heading up to Milwaukee to play a yearly concert called Gathering On the Green about 20 miles north of Milwaukee. This kind of driving reminds me of what...
