CEMC/ SoG – Jean Le Bouteiller (fl.1530s) – Ce moys de May From the May 18, 2008 Chicago Early Music Consort & Spirit of Gambo – a Chicago Consort of Viols Performance of ‘Bonjour, Mon Coer! – The Sublime 16th-Century French...
This is an ultra-quick note from an ultra-harried Jason (only three weeks of insane schedule left–meatier blogging to come very soon!) to let you know that Contrabass Conversations will be featuring interviews from Metropolitan Opera Orchestra bassists Jeremy...
Hi everyone, Peter Tambroni here for some quick tips to avoid practice burnout. We all get to a point in our practicing where we stagnate, feel burned out, or are just plain sick of it! This is normal. As musicians, we tend to have the attitude that we “must...
Folks out there may already be familiar with Animusic videos–they’ve been around for many years. To me, however, they are a great example of how creative people can be when envisioning music, and they are excellent videos to show young students and get...
Grant Park Symphony and Northern Illinois University bass professor John Floeter put out a really interesting blog post earlier this fall, posing an excellent question: How do people determine the proportion of basses to other string sections for a particular...
