If readers have recordings of themselves that they would like to have played on Contrabass Conversations, please send them to me! I am always looking for more content for the show, and including reader submissions is one of the things I’d like to do. If you have...
Over the summer I applied for a professional blogging position with an internet media company. I made the short list but didn’t get the gig, which is probably a good thing in hindsight. I have no idea how I would have been able to keep up the time commitment...
There is a new bass ensemble that formed recently here in Chicago. It is an extremely high quality quartet composed of four people that I consider good friends and colleagues. The members of the new Chicago Bass Ensemble include Jacque Harper, who I have known for 12...
Matt Heller just wrote a post about Yo-Yo Ma and his week as soloist with the New World Symphony. He also mentions first hearing Yo-Yo Ma with the Philadelphia Orchestra years ago. It is a very perceptive piece of prose–check it out!It is great to see Matt...
OK–this video is really astounding. It is long (12 minutes), and a little dry for the first seven minutes. But hang in there, because right at the seven minute mark the video goes from cheezy to possibly the greatest thing I have ever seen. Fast forward to the...
