Finding Rothko, The IRIS Chamber Orchestra’s latest commissioned work by composer Adam Schoenberg, just won one of the 2007 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. This is exciting news for Adam, and it is more evidence of the high level of musical...
This is a post from double bassist from Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music student Nicholas Hart. Nick will be contributing weekly posts to the bass blog about life as a music student in one of the nation’s most exclusive programs. I think readers will...
Double bassist Matt Heller (former New World Symphony member and recent addition to the Calgary Philharmonic bass section) put out an interesting post recently about the used of colored pens (or pens) as a making device for musical scores. Check out the post here.This...
Drew McManus is featuring several contributions from bassists this month for the Take a Friend to Orchestra initiative on his blog Adaptistration. I was just featured yesterday, and Bill Harris (from Facilitated Systems) was also featured earlier this month.I’d...
My contribution to the Take a Friend to Orchestra initiative is now posted, so folks can check out today’s post at Adaptistration (the excellent blog that Drew McManus authors) to read my thoughts on how to introduce classical music to a newbie. Drew has been...
