We hit 1000 posts and sailed past earlier this month—an artificial landmark, perhaps, but it still makes me think about what has been developed so far and what is coming up in the future on the blog. Readership has mushroomed, the comments are pouring in, folks are...
Here is a short clip of bass soloist and recent Contrabass Conversations guest François Rabbath performing Le Cri during Recital Hour. This performance occurred a few days before François did the interview for Contrabass Conversations, and it is great to hear him play...
Drew McManus wrote a post recently about the benefits and drawbacks of brevity in concert programming. He has written on this subject in the past on his blog Adaptistration, and it is a very important and touchy subject. This particular post discusses the Chicago...
There is a new, fairly geeky option in Google Experimental Labs to allow for searches through a timeline structure. Being a massive bass geek, I naturally typed in ‘double bass’ and got something like this: 184018601880190019201940196019802000Click here to...
Robert Oppelt just wrote a story about Mstislav Rostropovich from his time with him in that National Symphony Orchestra:Rostropovich StoryThe great cellist Mistislav Rostropovich just passed away. As he made himself available so freely, many musicians around the world...
