links for 2008-01-10

The Partial Observer – You’re paid?! This is a fun column from violinist Holly Mulcahy about the surprised reaction from many audience members when they discover that you’re actually paid to be a musician. (tags: classical music performance...

List of music school audition requirements rapidly expanding

We’ve had several individuals submit additions to our music school audition requirements page, so take a look and see what pieces are being asked from various institutions.  If you have any additions, please leave them at the bottom of the audition...

Guy Tuneh performs Mendelssohn Sextet mvt 3

Click to Play The outstanding double bassist Guy Tuneh (www.guytuneh.com) performs the third movement Sextet in D Major with Villa Musica. Listen to Guy Tuneh in interview to his Contrabass Conversations page, and check out more videos from him here.

Featured story and featured bassist now active on the blog

I just added two new features to the blog interface, so if you’re reading this in an RSS feed reader you may want to click over to the site and check it out for yourself.  There is a small area in the upper right sidebar for a featured story and a featured...

This Messiah video is bad bad bad

I know that we’re well past the Messiah story trading season, but I couldn’t resist sharing this deliciously terrible video from double bassist Eric Steffens. Be sure to turn your speaker volume down–the person recording/transferring this had their...