Double bassist Rainer Lewalter sent me a link to this great video of violinist Itzhak Perlman playing with four klezmer groups: Brave Old World, The Klezmatics, Andy Statman and the Klezmer Conservatory Band. Great stuff!
There are a few more double bass auditions that have been announced this month. Here’s the information for what is on the horizon. Check it out, and happy practicing!_________Arkansas Symphony OrchestraDavid Itkin, Music DirectorSection BassAuditions: May 15,...
Double bass and violone player Jerry Fuller recently sent me some information about a baroque performance workshop with violinist Elizabeth Blumentstock. It will be held at the Midwest Young Artists facility in Highwood, Illinois on May 10 at 10 a.m., and I’d...
I’ve got a widget that bass players may be interested in adding to their MySpace page, blog, website, or anywhere else on the web where you can paste HTML code. You can access all of the old episodes, and we are adding new episodes every week, so this widget can...
How quickly time flies! It feels like I just started this blog, and it is hard to wrap my head around the fact that I have pushed that ‘publish’ button one thousand times (and many, many more times than that if you count edits, rewrites, and the like). Think about...
